This paper analyzes the relationship between age and health services utilization in Chile, using the CASEN survey of 1994. Logistic analysis is performed to determine how age utilization profiles differ by income, location and system affiliation (private or public insurance). The results are...

Using student evaluations as a learning measure, we estimate and compare class size and teacher effects for higher education, with emphasis on determining whether a comprehensive class size reduction policy that draws on the hiring of new teachers is likely to improve educational outcomes. We...

This paper puts forward an explanation for the negative elasticity of supply of beef found in many LDC's. As is explained by Jarvis (1974), the elasticity of supply of beef may be negative in the short run due to the dual role of cattle as both a capital and a consumption good. But in some...

El desempleo en Chile ha sido un tema de constante investigación en los últimos diez años. En este trabajo se propone explicar la persistencia de una alta tasa de desempleo entre 1975 y 1980, a pesar de que había un fuerte crecimiento del producto. El trabajo hace una comparación entre la...