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

The Chilean Economy has experienced substantial changes in last quarter century: The GDP per capita almost duplicated, inflation dropped significantly and real wages improved substantially. The economy opened to international trade and markets were liberalized and diversified. However, income...

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...