This study addresses the phenomenon of permanence for long years of low performance (urban) schools, measured by SIMCE. We also analyze mobility of students to other schools of same or better quality. The results show that student´s mobility rates in these schools is almost 11%. Almost 30% of...

Despite success in reducing poverty over the last twenty years, inequality in Chile has remained virtually unchanged, making Chile one of the least equal countries in the world. High levels of inequality have been shown to hamper further reductions in poverty as well as economic growth, and...

Determinar los potenciales efectos de una fusión en el grado de competencia en un mercado es una tarea compleja. La decisión de las instituciones que defienden la libre competencia respecto a aprobar o rechazar una fusión es, por lo tanto, difícil, y genera incertidumbre en las empresas que...

Este artículo describe y caracteriza, desde el punto de vista de su organización industrial, los mercados del petróleo y sus derivados líquidos en Chile. Con ese objetivo, se realiza primero una descripción sistemática de cada uno de los mercados que componen esta industria, considerando...

Despite success in reducing poverty over the last twenty years, inequality in Chile has remained virtually unchanged, making Chile one of the least equal countries in the world. High levels of inequality have been shown to hamper further reductions in poverty as well as economic growth and local...

It is widely held that indigenous Chileans experience greater rates of poverty and indigence than non-indigenousChileans, yet the evidence to date has been based on surveys that are not representative by ethnicity. In this paper,we use poverty mapping methodologies that are typically applied to...

By all accounts, poverty in Chile has declined dramatically over the last 20 years, with the nacional headcount ratio declining from nearly 40% in 1987 to below 14% in 2006. Due to data limitations, most research on poverty in Chile has focused on national and regional estimates, yet recent...