En este trabajo se exploran los efectos de un programa de descontaminación sobre la calidad del aire en Santiago de Chile. Se estiman dos modelos; uno de Mínimos Cuadrados Ordinarios (MCO) y otro no paramétrico de Regresión Discontinua (RD) para diferentes ventanas de periodos en torno al...

El objetivo de esta investigación consiste en indagar en los potenciales efectos del uso del computador en el desempeño académico de los estudiantes en Chile. Utilizando la información proveniente de las encuestas SIMCE es posible identificar el efecto que tiene el uso de este equipamiento...

This paper presents a case study of a social marketing intervention, developed as an action research project, which applied marketing principles and practices to the public policy challenge of reducing the incidence of deliberate countryside fire-setting in certain communities. This represented...

We explore the effectiveness of capital controls in Colombia. We analyze the impact of administrative restrictions to capital flows on aggregate capital flows, the composition of capital flows, the real exchange rate, and economic activity using restricted versions of vector error correction...

Economic cycles affect both unemployment and the composition of employment, which can have an impact on the well-being of individuals if these changes in composition are involuntary or involve a decrease in the quality of employment. In this article, we study the relationship between economic...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the anti-crime program Comuna Segura: Compromiso 100 had on the reporting rate of different types of crimes. This program, implemented in Chile starting in 2001, was very highly criticized and, therefore, was eliminated in 2006. This paper...