This paper provides evidence on the degree and patterns of intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile. We find intergenerational income elasticities for Greater Santiago in Chile in the range of 0.52 to 0.54. This is lower than recent nation-wide elasticities for Chile of...

Self regulation (SR) is a common way of enforcing quality in markets (such as banking, financial services and several professions) and in a variety of public and private organizations. We provide experimental evidence of the reputational incentives of Self Regulatory Organizations (SROs) to...

This work analyzes the ability signaling hypothesis using a rich set of data of a homogeneous population -Business and Economics graduates of University X- who share similar occupations in the labor market. After studying three years of a common core curriculum, students must choose between...

En las empresas modernas el valor monetario de sus recursos intangibles es muy superior al valor de su inventario y de sus propiedades. La marca, los derechos de autor, la estructura organizacional, su estrategia, la competencia sumada de sus empleados, etc. Son parte de los recursos...

We apply a variation of Bourguignon, Meléndez and Ferreira (2005) methodology to examine the extent to which income inequality is associated with the inequality of observed exogenous circumstances of origin that determine individuals' "opportunities" to pursue their chosen life plans. We find...