Pension programs in Latin America have low coverage. We use large panel databases coming from administrative records of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay to characterize the histories of contribution of the population. We compute three indicators: density of contribution, transition rates and...

Medical practitioners typically utilize the following protocol when advising pregnant women about testing for the possibility of genetic disorders: Pregnant women over the age of 35 should be tested for Down syndrome and other genetic disorders; for younger women, such tests are discouraged...

The authors propose alternative methods to project pension rights and implement them in Chile and Uruguay and partially in Argentina. The authors use incomplete work histories databases from the social security administrations to project entire lifetime work histories. The authors first fit...

All over the world, retirement income is increasingly depending on an individual’s savings choices over their lifetime. To assess if individuals are saving enough for their old age at least three questions are relevant: Do they know how much saving is necessary to achieve a desired living...

Credibility and transparency are at the core of the current debate about exchange rate regimes. The steady growth in the magnitude and variability of international capital flows has complicated the question of whether to use floating, fixed, or intermediate exchange rate regimes. Emerging market...

This paper intends to characterize the take-up behavior of benefits in the Chilean Unemployment Insurance scheme. Using administrative data, we observe that only 35% of eligible individuals apply for some of the benefits covered by the program. The results suggest that an important part of the...