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    • Chile: Evolución de las oportunidades para los niños, 1990-2006 
      Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Larrañaga Jiménez, Osvaldo; Puentes Encina, Esteban; Rau Binder, Tomás (Naciones Unidas, 2012)
      En este trabajo se mide la evolución de la desigualdad de oportunidades en Chile, evaluándose el grado de desigualdad de la distribución de los resultados socioeconómicos sobre la base de circunstancias exógenas. Se ...
    • Early life height and weight production functions with endogenous energy and protein inputs 
      Puentes Encina, Esteban; Wang, Fan; Behrman, Jere R.; Cunha, Flavio; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John; Adair, Linda; Borja, Judith; Martorell, Reynaldo; Stein, Aryeh D. (Elsevier, 2016)
      We examine effects of protein and energy intakes on height and weight growth for children between 6 and 24 months old in Guatemala and the Philippines. Using instrumental variables to control for endogeneity and estimating ...
    • Inequality of opportunities at early ages: evidence from Chile 
      Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Puentes Encina, Esteban (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      This paper examines inequality of opportunity for Chilean children starting from an early age. It uses a psychometric test designed to assess children’s receptive vocabulary (PPVT), height, and weight as opportunity ...
    • Self-Employment and Queues for Wage Work: Evidence from Chile 
      Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Puentes Encina, Esteban; Gillmore, Roberto (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2015)
      Self-employment can be considered as either the result of a self-selection process or areflection of rigidities and skill mismatch in the labour market or both. We estimate a doubleselection model where individuals queue ...
    • The effects of micro entrepreneurship programs on labor market performance: experimental evidence from Chile 
      Martinez A, Claudia; Puentes Encina, Esteban; Ruiz-Tagle Venero, Jaime (American Economic Association, 2018)
      We investigate the impact of a program providing asset transfers and business training to low income individuals in Chile, and asked whether a larger asset transfer would magnify the program's impact. We randomly assigned ...