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Este artículo investiga la dinámica de ingresos familiares en el corto plazo durante los años 90. La educación universitaria, como forma de protección contra caídas de ingresos, ciertos rangos demográficos asociad...

Este trabajo reporta información sobre la desigualdad del ingreso en América Latina y el Caribe, calculada a partir de una muestra de más de 50 encuestas de hogares de 20 países de LAC desde 1989 a 2001. Aunque la ma...

This paper applies newly developed methods for the computation of income polarization by Duclos-Esteban-Ray (2004) to the Argentine case between 1998 and 2002. We find that despite the slowdown in the growth of the inequ...

La gran mayoría de los estudios del ingreso no toman en cuenta la renta implícita que obtienen los hogares que viven en una casa propia. Esta omisión puede introducir un potencial sesgo de gran magnitud en medidas de ...

Durante las décadas de 1980 y 1990, las decisiones de fertilidad variaron de manera significativa y diferenciada a lo largo de la distribución del ingreso en Argentina. En este trabajo se estudian los efectos de estos ...

We use the shifts in Engel curves estimated from household surveys to estimate CPI biases in Argentina between 1985 and 2005. We find that real earning levels increased during this period between 4.3 and 5.7% faster per ...

Although several papers in the political economy literature suggest a positive relationship between income inequality and redistribution, the data for Latin America does not support this claim. Countries with more income...

Economic reforms involving the agricultural sector, such as those being proposed in the WTO Doha Round negotiations, will affect household behavior in developing countries. This paper proposes an empirical methodology to...

The classification problem is one of the main issues in data mining because it aims to extract a classifier which can be used to predict the classes of objects whose class table are unknown. This paper deals with classif...

Este trabajo provee evidencia sobre crecimiento y pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe (LAC). Los resultados se obtienen de microdatos provenientes de encuestas de hogares para 18 países en la región desde los 1990s ...

Este trabajo investiga el impacto de exportaciones no tradicionales en familias rurales en Zambia. La identificación y estimación de los efectos de largo plazo es lo que distingue a este trabajo de la literatura actual...

This paper investigates the impacts of non-traditional exports on household outcomes in rural Zambia. Traditionally, Zambia has been an exporter of copper and only recently has the increase in agricultural exports been o...

This paper has two main goals. The first is to complement the Argentine mean income series with inequality estimates in order to obtain aggregate welfare series. Average income figures are estimated from National Account...

El estudio de como el crimen afecta a diversos grupos de ingresos presenta varias dificultades. La primera es que las actividades para evitar crímenes varían entre estos grupos. Por lo tanto, una menor tasa de victimiz...

Crime levels have risen significantly in Argentina during recent years. In this study, we analyze the relationship between crime victimization and income distribution. Our main question is whether the rich or the poor ha...

Increasing attention to higher education policies in the knowledge-based society makes important to understand the relationship between socio-economic family characteristics and educational choices. This paper considers ...

This chapter summarizes information on inequality in living standards in Latin American and Caribbean countries. To that aim we work with a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001...

This work evaluates the social effects of economic instability using a rotating panels. It is divided in three parts: the first note qualifies the assessment of inequality in a context of changing income volatility measu...

The definition of social mobility is the object of some discussion, and although there is a common thread that runs through all of these discussions, the actual definition varies from study to study. There is agreement t...

BACKGROUND: Global and regional projections of mortality and burden of disease by cause for the years 2000, 2010, and 2030 were published by Murray and Lopez in 1996 as part of the Global Burden of Disease project. These...