Este estudio tiene como objetivo analizar cuáles son las características y competencias de los individuos que influyen en la probabilidad de emprender en Chile. Para ello, utilizando la Encuesta de Protección Social de los años 2006 y 2009 se estiman dos modelos, uno estático que utiliza...

This paper uses alternative measures of neighborhood quality to study its impact on student performance in school. The Chilean voucher-based education system allows us to test separately for neighborhood and traditional in-classroom peer effects, which have been traditionally empha- sized by the...

The provision of elderly care is an issue of increasing importance in Latin American countries because of a aging population, decrease in household size, and increased complexity of care. Thus, it is important to analyze how the provision of informal care of other adults affects the welfare of...

La Encuesta de Protección Social (EPS) representa el esfuerzo más sistemático y riguroso de levantamiento de información sobre el mercado laboral y el sistema de protección social chileno basado en datos longitudinales. Esta encuesta surge en el año 2002 producto de la iniciativa de la...

This paper contributes to understand the microeconomic determinants of household income dynamics in poverty and inequality in Chile during the 90’s . We use a microsimulation based on the decomposition of distributional changes, developed by Bourguignon et.al. (2000). We estimate a...

The first time in which the International Adult Literacy Survey was carried out in a developing country was in 1998 in Chile. The survey measures the effective skills of the population over 15 years of age in the comprehension and processing of texts, documents and quantitative information on a...

We use a specially designed survey to evaluate the effect of several public policies on female labor force participation in Chile. First, we estimate a self-selection model to find the determinants of female labor participation and wages. Our participation estimates show that schooling is highly...