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(Pergamon-Elsevier, 2015)International evidence shows that intervention in the early childhood years has positive effects on individuals' long-term outcomes. Through the use of an education production function, this article estimates the effect ...
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(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012-03)Using a large dataset for 79 countries covering the period 19622000, this study analyses the main determinants of export diversification (concentration). We explore the role of several factors and we use three different ...
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(Springer, 2015)The purpose of this paper is to analyse the factors that influence female entrepreneurship in Spain, using institutional economics as the theoretical framework. The empirical research uses Spanish regional-level panel data ...
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(Jorge Gregoire, 2005)There is an extensive literature on the determinants of capital structure for developed countries, but little has been said about emerging economies. This article analyzes the driving forces of capital structure in Chile ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2012)We adapt the multidimensional poverty methodology to the study of job quality dynamics using a unique household survey panel, for a developing country like Chile. This data allows us to control for the history of the worker ...
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(Elsevier Inc., 2019)© 2018 Elsevier Inc.Politicians and analysts frequently call for stricter regulation of personal loans. Two variables that are easy to measure, and therefore easy to include in regulations and public policy, are purchase ...
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(TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD., 2011)Chile's labour force participation is low in comparison with Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Latin American countries on average, especially among females and youths. This article estimates ...
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(Elsevier, 2017)This paper examines the determinants of perceived and actual knowledge of commission paid by contributors in the Chilean pension funds industry. Results show that price consciousness and brand credibility are positively ...
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(SAGE, 2020)Periodontal and periapical lesions are infectious inflammatory osteolitytic conditions in which a complex inflammatory immune response mediates bone destruction. However, the uncertainty of a lesion's progressive or stable ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2014-03)Latin America has seen a decade of strong economic growth and is regarded as an economic success story. Its most notable achievements include a sharp decline in the poverty rate and the rise of the middle class, which grew ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-12)Based on Becker’s theoretical model, the present paper estimates econometrically the determinants of the crime rate in Argentina for the 1990-1999 period. Like previous empirical applications for Argentina, a significant ...
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(Wiley, 2021)Medical error frequently occurs in ambulatory care, and healthcare professionals may encounter situations in which they need to speak up to ensure better practice. This study aims to investigate the factors that influenced ...
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(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2019)© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited.Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of consumer-related and bank-related characteristics on the knowledge of the total cost of consumer loans paid by consumers ...
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(2015)The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of the implementation of global and local brands in Latin America by drawing on contingency theory to develop and test hypotheses relating to how product category ...
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(Elsevier, 2017)Trust has become a relevant concern for tourist destinations. Partly because of the novelty of the research on trust in the tourism literature, there are several open questions regarding the antecedents of trust towards a ...
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(Springer, 2010)It is a planners’ common argument that one of the main sources of vacant land is developers’ speculation. Consequently, in order to reduce vacant land, it is also a common policy to charge extra taxes to this kind of ...
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(BMC, 2018-07-06)Background: Preventive health services play a vital role in population health. However, access to such services is not always equitably distributed. In this article, we examine the barriers affecting utilisation rates of ...
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(Springer New York LLC, 2017)© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Purpose: High mammographic breast density (BD) is a strong risk factor of breast cancer; however, little is known in women under 40 years of age. Recently, dual-energy X-ray ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2017)El desarrollo de la siguiente tesis tiene el propósito de estudiar la factibilidad técnica, estratégica y económica de una plataforma online que ofrezca servicios kinésicos en el hogar, siendo el medio de conexión entre ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2016)Marco teórico La caries se define como una enfermedad que progresivamente destruye la estructura dentaria debido a que los ácidos que producen las bacterias como producto de la fermentación de hidratos de carbono ...
