How much redistribution does Uruguay accomplish through social spending and taxes? How progressive are revenue collection and social spending? A standard fiscal incidence analysis shows that Uruguay achieves a nontrivial reduction in inequality and poverty when all taxes and transfers are...

Based on data from the “Survey of Biological and Social Reproduction of the Uruguayan Population: an approach from the perspective of gender and generations” of 2004, we studied the impact of teenage motherhood on the educational outcomes of women. The results confirm the endogeneity of...

The surface segregation, structure, and valence band density of states of Pt3Ni(100), (110), and (111) single crystals are characterized with low energy ion scattering (LEIS), low energy electron diffraction (LEED), and ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS). The results of LEIS clearly...