This paper analyzes the premium charged by the private Chilean health insurance market, constituted by the private health management institutions, ISAPRES. A relationship between the expected expenditure and the socio-demographic variables, sex, age and t

Normally investment projects generate income redistributions. This paper presents a methodology for introducing these redistributions explicitly in the evaluation process. The ,paper has four sections: the first one surveys different methodologies develop

Between 1979 and 1999, mortality rates in Chile fell from 6.8 to 5.4 per thousand while infant mortality rates decreased from 75 to 38 per 1000 newborns. This paper presents a methodology to value these reductions on the mortality rates based on a model in which agents choose consumption and...

This essay on caloric intake studies the effect of the change in food expenditures on the nutritional situation of low income households. Its objective is twofold: (I) To study the impact of the reduction, between 1978 and 1988, in the average propensity