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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)n Santiago, the capitol of Chile, an ambitious reform of the public transport industry, aptly named Transantiago, was introduced in February 2007. Serious design and implementation problems were immediately evident, ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)We examine the effects of free-of-charge availability of emergency contraception on contraceptive behaviour in Chile. Using a survey of individuals 15 to 29, we exploit variation in availability at the municipality level ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)We examine the effects of free-of-charge availability of emergency contraception on contraceptive behaviour in Chile. Using a survey of individuals 15 to 29, we exploit variation in availability at the municipality level ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014-10)Using retained profits, instead of realized capital gains, by simply adding them to the shareholders’ other sources of income is shown to be in general incorrect. We provide a methodology to include undistributed profits ...
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Tournaments, gift exchanges, and the effect of monetary incentives for teachers: the case of Chile (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2009)In this paper we evaluate the introduction in Chile of monetary incentives for teachers, based on a school performance tournament. We evaluate the tournament effect, i.e. the effect of introducing the incentive scheme ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2009)Usando datos del módulo de historia laboral de la Encuesta de Protección Social para los años 2002, 2004 y 2006, se construyó un panel mensual para el período 2000-2006. Para modelar las variables que intervienen en la ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2008)Este artículo analiza la evolución del trabajo a tiempo parcial en Chile y los factores económicos, tanto de oferta como demanda, que lo afectan. Se incorpora un análisis a la regulación y se proponen algunas medidas para ...
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(Centre For New Development Thinking, 2012)This article examines why, after 20 years of government by a centre-left coalition, the political position of unions in Chile has probably weakened. The academic literature has predominantly focused on the political and ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)This article develops a double selection model in order to test whether part-time workers are excluded from full time jobs (underemployed) or choose to put themselves into distinct labour market segments. Results show ...
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(National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999)Americans who are caught evading taxes in one year may be audited for prior years. While the IRS does not disclose its method of selecting tax returns to audit, it is widely believed that a taxpayer's probability of being ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-12)In recent years, unemployment protection systems based on individual savings have been instituted in several developing countries. Chile was one of the first countries to establish such a system, which at the time was ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011)This paper presents a summary of Önancial access in rural Thailand. We Önd that household use an important variety of Önancial instruments and at the same time, there is a lot of heterogeneity at the province level. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016-01)Despite the relevance of protected areas as biodiversity conservation tools, indicators of cost-benefit analysis of both public and private protected areas has been scarce in the literature. In this paper, we estimate and ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002)This paper develops conceptual arguments to analyze RPM from the antitrust viewpoint. Through a general model, we conclude that minimum RPM in general would reduce consumer's price. Consequently, it could harm consumers ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)We study the effects of violence towards children on early childhood cognitive and noncognitive development. We use data from a longitudinal nationally representative survey of Chilean children to generate estimates of ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011)Chileans have limited knowledge of the pension system, its rules and the consequences involved in their personal decisions within it. Using a variation in the household composition- having a pensioner in the household- ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-05)We study economies where all commodities are indivisible at the individual level, but perfectly divisible at the aggregate level of the economy. Under the survival assumption, we show that a competitive outcome in the ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017-09)We study wealth disparities in the formation of anthropometrics, cognitive skills and socio-emotional skills. We use a sample of preschool and early school children in Chile. We extend the previous literature by using ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014-03)The scanty economic literature has attributed to female voting part of the increase in government expenditure and social government expenditure over the XXth century. This finding results puzzling considering that the ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)This study measures the impact of changes in the income determinants on inequality in the 1990 to 2003 period, in order to answer the question of why income distribution as a whole has not changed. The methodology ...
