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    • Rubalcava, Luis; Contreras Guajardo, Dante (Elsevier, 2000)
      Parental decisions have a profound effect on a child’s human capital development. Given the family’s endowment, the way parents decide how to allocate household resources has a direct impact on the child’s health ...
    • Pezzuti, Todd; Pierce, Meghan E.; Leonhardt, James M. (Emerald, 2018)
      Purpose This paper investigates how language homophily between service providers and migrant consumers affects migrant consumers' intentions to engage with financial and medical service providers. Design/methodology/approach ...
    • Medrano, Patricia; Rodríguez, Catherine; Villa, Edgar (The Economic Society of South Africa, 2008-12)
      This paper studies the effect that mother's education as knowledge has on child health using height for age as health measure. Using cross sectional data from de 1993 South Africa Integrated Household Survey, and health ...
    • Rotarou, Elena S. (Springer, 2018-07)
      Chile is considered as one of the safest countries in Latin America, with a below-the-average world crime rate. However, during the last few decades, the country has experienced a deterioration in public perceptions of ...
    • Lima, José Luis; Núñez, Javier (Taylor & Francis, 2015)
      Self-regulation (SR) is a common way of enforcing quality in markets (such as banking, financial services and several professions) and in a variety of public and private organizations. We provide experimental evidence of ...
    • González Tissinetti, Aldo; Micco Aguayo, Alejandro; Montoya S., Ana María (2015)
      We estimate the correlation of foreign bank penetration and dollarization with competition in the banking industry in sixteen Latin American countries during the period 1995–2008. We apply Boone’s methodology to compute ...
    • Corbo, Vittorio; Askari, Hossein (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1980)
      En este trabajo se presentan dos ensayos sobre protección. El primero presenta el concepto de profundidad de la protección en un modelo de equilibrio parcial. El segundo ensayo cuantifica los niveles de protección nominal ...
    • Walker Errázuriz, Francisco; Liendo, Ricardo (Director Comite Editorial: Sergio Olavarrieta, 2006)
      El cambio del perfil del trabajador chileno y del mercado laboral, al existir niveles de desempleo importantes y remuneraciones bajas, las pensiones tienden a ser desiguales y a veces insuficientes y dificultosa ...
    • Hernandez, Diego (Kluwer Law Int, 2018)
      Indirect contacts or exchanges of information between competitors through a common third party can sometimes lead to the existence of a cumulus of vertical agreements and, sometimes, can imply the configuration of a ...
    • Yu, Dejian; Li, Deng Feng; Merigó Lindahl, José (2016)
      The concept of dual hesitant fuzzy set arising from hesitant fuzzy set is generalized by including a function reflecting the decision maker's fuzziness about the non-membership degree of the information provided. This paper ...
    • Caballero, Ricardo J.; Engel Goetz, Eduardo (The Econometric Society, 1991)
      In this paper we provide a framework to study the aggregate dynamic behavior of an economy where individual units follow (S, s) policies. We characterize structural and stochastic heterogeneities that ensure convergence ...
    • Kausel, Edgar E.; Carrasco, Francisco; Reyes, Tomás; Hirmas, Alejandro; Rodríguez, Arturo (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2020)
      Research has paid little attention to how overconfidence evolves over time. We examined how task experience (experience within a task using a sequence of items) and outcome feedback affected accuracy, confidence and ...
    • Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Neilson, Christopher; Hermann Anguita, Jorge; Cooper, Ryan (Cambridge University Press, 2008-05)
      This paper uses the 1996–2001 National Socioeconomic Survey panel database to analyse poverty dynamics in Chile, drawing a distinction between chronic and transient poverty. We found that while 20 per cent of the ...
    • Lima, Víctor O.; Paredes Molina, Ricardo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007-12)
      Through flows from 3 states, employment, unemployment and out of the labor force, we analyze the dynamics of labor markets in Chile from 1962-2007. We identify some periods of different labor market regimes and relate ...
    • Mendoza Henríquez, Miguel; Alvarez de Toledo, José A. (2004-12-10)
      En este artículo se reflexiona acerca del estado de desarrollo del e-Business en la empresa chilena entendido como todas las actividades que generan valor a través del uso de las Tecnologías de la Información.
    • Mendoza Henríquez, Miguel; Alvarez de Toledo, José Antonio (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001)
    • 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 ...
    • Jara Bertín, Mauricio; Sepúlveda, Jean P (Emerald Group Publishing, 2016)
      Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to introduce an earnings management dimension to compute pre-manipulated accounting performance (free of discretionary accruals) to determine whether family-controlled firms perform ...
    • Schnettler, Berta; Miranda, Horacio; Lobos, Germán; Orellana, Ligia; Sepúlveda, José; Denegri Coria, Marianela; Etchebarne López, María Soledad; Mora González, Marcos (Elsevier, 2015)
      The purpose of this study was to distinguish and characterize university student typologies according to their life satisfaction and satisfaction with their food-related life. An online survey was applied between June ...
    • Marina, Adriana (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-12)
      The purpose of this paper is to study the inequality of income between the provinces of Argentina. The data in this paper comes from the traditionally used GDP p.c., as well as from Household survey. The analysis examines ...