This study investigates the characteristics that contribute to elderly poverty, mainly focusing on individuals' lifetime work experience. It adopts the heterogeneous relative poverty line which differs by gender, province of residence and over time. It calculates the work experience and obtains...

There is limited information on whether integrating childhood interventions with health and nutrition services interventions is effective and feasible. In this trial we used group delivery at five routine visits from age 3-18 months, and comprised: short films of child development messages,...

Uruguay is one of very few countries in Latin America that has a nationally representative, longitudinal survey of early childhood development. In 2015-2016, during the second wave of the survey, an observational module on the home environment was administered at scale for the first time. The...

This study estimates the state dependence in social assistance in Sweden during 1990–1999 by different types of households, which were grouped by the country of birth of the sampled individual and his/her partner. The results show that the structural state dependence differed extensively...

Welfare persistence is estimated and compared between Swedish-born and foreign-born households during the 1990s. This is done within the framework of a dynamic discrete choice model controlling for the initial conditions problem and permanent unobserved heterogeneity. We control for three types...

El presente capítulo se organiza en siete secciones. Luego de la introducción, en la segunda sección se presenta una discusión conceptual de la pobreza desde el punto de vista de las capacidades propuesto por Amartya Sen. La tercera sección revisa la metodología de la pobreza...

El presente libro recopila investigaciones realizadas por jóvenes estudiantes y recién egresados de economía con motivo del I Concurso Nacional: ¨Gasto en la mira: Evaluando el gasto público¨, organizado por la Universidad del Pacífico con el apoyo de Global Development Network (GDN). Las...

In Chile, income is distributed on a substantially more equitable basis among younger generations than older generations. There is a greater social mobility and less poverty in the younger generations. The overall trends "are going well," but social policy has not been adapted to this new...

Colombia necesita adoptar una agenda estratégica para poder atender el rezago en que se encuentra el sector de infraestructura de transporte. Dos reformas largamente aplazadas son determinantes para el éxito de esa agenda: Primero, aprovechar la oportunidad que representa la agenda de Cambio...