This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...

Latin America is the most unequal region in the world. High levels of inequality are pervasive in spite of recent economic growth, institutional development and deliberate argeted social interventions.

En este trabajo se presenta una panorámica comparada de los patrones de movilidad en 14 países latinoamericanos entre 1992 y 2003. Se presenta un conjunto de estimadores de la idea tradicional de movilidad del ingreso, así como en cuanto a la movilidad alrededor de los límites entre la...

This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...

This paper has two main objectives. On the one hand, it is aimed at assessing the reliability of poverty and inequality measures in Chile, and their robustness to methodological changes. In particular, we evaluate the impact on the measurement of poverty and inequality of adjustments for...

El presente trabajo analiza el gasto en alimentos que realizan los hogares en Argentina mediante la estimación de curvas de Engel, teniendo en cuenta tanto características demográficas de los hogares como la presencia de heterogeneidad en sus preferencias de consumo. La estimación de...

This report describes the socio-economic situation in Chile based on a large set of distributional, labor and social statistics computed from microdata of the Encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica Nacional (CASEN) from 1990 to 2000. The report also draws from other data sources and the...

This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...

Charles Darwin (1874) stated that "women are less selfish but men are more competitive". Very recent papers (Eckel & Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both ultimatum and dictator games. In this paper we analyze...