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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)Las mujeres chilenas exhiben una de las tasas de participación laboral más bajas de Latinoamérica, a pesar del crecimiento económico de las últimas décadas y de tener el mayor nivel de escolaridad de la región después ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2011-09)There is persistent debate over the role of scale of operations in education. Some argue that school franchises offer educational services more effectively than small independent schools. Skeptics counter that large ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)We use a specially designed survey to evaluate the effect of several public policies on female labor force participation in Chile. First, we estimate a self-selection model to find the determinants of female labor ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002)The first time in which the International Adult Literacy Survey was carried out in a developing country was in 1998 in Chile. The survey measures the effective skills of the population over 15 years of age in the ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)We study the relationship between harsh parenting strategies, including psychological and physical aggressions that do not constitute abuse, on early childhood cognitive and socio-emotional development. We estimate a ...
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(Wiley, 2014)The relationship between exogenous circumstances faced in early childhood (opportunities) and earnings has been increasingly studied in the past decade. In this article we assess the sensitivity of this relationship to ...
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(Overseas Development Institute, 2014)The relationship between exogenous circumstances faced in early childhood (opportunities) and earnings has been increasingly studied in the past decade. In this article we assess the sensitivity of this relationship to ...
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(Elsevier, 2015)Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the association between income inequality and school violence and between the performance inequality and school violence in two international samples. Methods: The study ...
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(Elsevier, 2015)Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the association between income inequality and school violence and between the performance inequality and school violence in two international samples. Methods: The study ...
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(Elsevier B.V., 2019)Long-standing literature argues that social capital is closely implicated in labour market outcomes. However, this hypothesis has yet to be tested in Latin America, the most unequal region in the world. We focus on Chile, ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)In this paper we assess the sensitivity of measures of inequality of opportunity to long-term earnings data. We compare indicators using four and seven year earnings with indicators that use the most commonly available ...
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(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 ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002)The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the dynamics of the Chilean labour market over the last thirty years or so. We investigate the relations between wage inequality and the level of segregation which characterise ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2009)We estimate a double selection model to study informality in the Chilean labor market. We use three different measures of informality: lack of a signed contract, contribution to social security and both at the same time. ...
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(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)This study seeks to determine whether overcrowding has a significant effect on students’ academic performance, controlling for variables associated with poverty and low socioeconomic status. It uses data from the international ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)This paper studies the labor market returns to a state guaranteed loan (SGL) used to finance university degrees. Using administrative data from Chile and a regression discontinuity design, we show that nine years after ...
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(University of Chicago, 2020)We study the labor market returns to a state-guaranteed loan used to finance university degrees in Chile. Using a regression discontinuity design, we show that marginally eligible students forgo vocational education in ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011)Existe una evidencia voluminosa, nacional e internacional, que muestra que no existen diferencias significativas entre colegios públicos y colegios privados con o sin fines de lucro en resultados de pruebas estandarizadas ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)Los últimos procesos migratorios que ha vivido Chile han despertado el interés respecto a los efectos de la inmigración sobre la economía del país. El objetivo de este trabajo es caracterizar y analizar los efectos de ...
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(EXPANSIVA, 2005)La experiencia de reducción de pobreza de los últimos años en Chile es considerada exitosa tanto en América Latina como en el mundo. Las cifras indican que en 1990 el porcentaje de individuos pobres llegaba casi al 40% de ...
