Mediante la estimación de un modelo de probabilidad paramétrico y uno semi-paramétrico de Klein y Spady (1993) este trabajo investiga los determinantes socioeconómicos de la probabilidad de disolución matrimonial en Chile. La separación es una decisión de individuos racionales que se...

El presente trabajo contribuye a explicar los determinantes de la distribución salarial en América Latina durante la década de los noventa. El estudio utiliza el modelo básico de descomposición de la varianza de los salarios propuesto por Fields (2002), basado en la estimación de una...

Most public transport subsidies in developing countries are justified on equity or social grounds. However, it is not clear how well current subsidies meet these objectives. In this paper we evaluate several public transport subsidies in the case of Santiago, Chile. This is an interesting case...

The objective of this paper is to study the Chilean labor market and determine the presence or absence of gender discrimination. In order to break past the limitations of earlier works, an experimental design is used, the first of its kind in Chile. This study also allows socioeconomic...

Reading achievement is usually explained by economic and institutional factors external to the students themselves. This research uses data from PISA (2001- 2009) to analyze the reading improvement in Chile (the highest of the period in OECD countries). The authors emphasize the role of reading...

El presente trabajo investiga qué atributos del profesor son favorables al rendimiento escolar de los estudiantes y cómo cambian estos resultados al controlar por el ordenamiento no aleatorio entre profesores y estudiantes. La existencia de ordenamiento no aleatorio entre profesores y...

This brief paper proposes an analytical method for estimating the economic value of forest ecosystems in supplying climate regulation. If, as argued by several authors, forests ecosystems serve as hedging against climatic risk, then natural ecosystems may act as substitutes for market insurance....

In this paper we assess the sensitivity of measures of inequality of opportunity to long-term earnings data. We compare indicators using four and seven year earnings with indicators that use the most commonly available yearly and monthly earnings. We argue that four and seven year earnings are...

This paper analyzes the role of National Research Funds in promoting scientific production in emerging economies. The study focuses on the impact of the Chilean National Science and Technology Research Fund (FONDECYT). The analysis uses data drawn from international sources of bibliometric...

We estimate the wage premium in Chile for the period 2004-2009 following a two-stage procedure that corrects the endogeneity of the union decision process. We find that there is true state dependence in the union decision. The wage premium after controlling for endogeneity is close to 20%. At...