Secondary vocational educational represents around 45% of students who graduate from secondary schools in Chile. This study provides empirical evidence about the educational trajectories and labor market insertion of the complete cohort of students that attended 10th grade in the year 2003. We...

This paper estimates the effect of attending one of the most important elite public high schools in Chile, the Instituto Nacional. Using data from its admission tests, we implement a regression discontinuity approach to estimate the impact of this high school on students’ academic performance....

In Chile, income is distributed on a substantially more equitable basis among younger generations than older generations. There is a greater social mobility and less poverty in the younger generations. The overall trends "are going well," but social policy has not been adapted to this new...

Properly identify the relationship between export and innovation is key to designing efficient policy instruments. However, there is still no consensus on how has to be the direct causal relationship between innovation and export. In this paper the authors develop an empirical analysis for the...

Can a constitution born in dictatorship serve democracy, or is it inevitably tainted by the circumstances of its birth? This question is central in Chilean politics today, but Chile is not alone. Roughly 20% of constitutions in force today were drafted during undemocratic periods. Chile’s...

This paper discusses the relationship between moral philosophy and political philosophy. It holds that political philosophy in some way is part of moral philosophy as the former deals with the content of moral standards governing the relations between individuals and institutions. That would be...

This paper studies the effects of attending a private high school, the university ranking and the employer learning on wages. The empirical strategy is based on the Mincer-type wage regressions. The analysis was carried out using individual-level data from Chile. I find a large and significant...

This paper analyzes the Taxable Profits Fund (TPF) from three different perspectives. First, it studies the historical context in which the TPF emerged, the specific objectives for which it was created and the main features of the tax regime that had existed prior to its implementation. Second,...

Air pollution is a major environmental concern in Chile. There is a growing international interest in the use of economic instruments to abate pollution considering they are more efficient and flexible. This study looks at the performance of two economic instruments used in prevention or...

Theories about power present a theoretical dilemma. Some believe that the greater an agent’s degree of power is, less will be the freedom of those subject to that agent. Others suggest just the opposite: greater freedom of the dominated implies a greater power of the dominant agent. This...