Browsing by Subject "Inequality"
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(Routledge, 2021)This paper proposes a new index of multidimensional poverty, called the Global Correlation Sensitive Poverty Index (G-CSPI), which has three interesting features. First, it encompasses three dimensions: decent work, ...
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(Springer, 2016)Most previous studies of income inequality have either ignored capital gains or have used taxable realized capital gains to estimate top incomes. Neither of these approaches is fully satisfactory. We apply for the first ...
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(MDPI, 2020)This article contributes to the study of inequality in the biological welfare of Chile’s adult population during the nitrate era, ca. 1880s–1930s, and in particular focuses on the impact of socioeconomic variables on ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011-06)Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011-06)Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011-06)The adjustment of the information obtained from household surveys to make the figures compatible with National Accounts is a non-standard and potentially questionable practice given that it alters the structure of income ...
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(University of Alberta, 2017)With few exceptions, studies consistently find that mortality rate ratios between the highest and lowest socioeconomic status (SES) groups decline with age. This un-intuitive pattern is relevant for policy and research, ...
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(SAGE Publications Inc, 2017)This article studies the effects of the neighborhood in which a school is located on children’s mathematics achievement in Chile. It uses data taken from a sample of 127,020 sixth grade students measured by the National ...
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(Institut Hautes etudes Amerique Latine, 2017)Economic policies and outcomes are examined covering the four Concertacion governments in 1990-2009. It is shown that in these two decades, GDP growth was notably higher (averaging 5.1% annually) than under the dictatorship ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011-06)The adjustment of the information obtained from household surveys to make the figures compatible with National Accounts is a non-standard and potentially questionable practice given that it alters the structure of income ...