The main aim of this work is to explain the Chilean gender wage gap using a dynamic monopsony model to estimate the labor supply elasticities at the firm level. Our results suggest that the elasticities of labor supply to firms are small, which implies that firms have labor market power. We also...

Using Chilean administrative datasets for the period 2011-2017, we study which of the most used tools to evaluate teacher quality, namely teachers' evaluation tests (TET) and teacher's value added (TVA), predicts more accurately not only short run (as most of the literature focus on) but also...

Territorial Use Rights (commonly known as TURFs in the literature) consists in the allocation of fishing rights to individuals and/or groups to fish in certain geographical locations. A requisite for these communities to be granted fishing rights is the formulation of a management and...

Este trabajo analiza los efectos y consecuencias potenciales de la desregulación del mercado chileno de generación eléctrica. Propone un modelo del sistema de generación que aplica la teoría de juegos no cooperativos en un contexto estático y dinámico. En Chile se han hecho estudios...

In 1979, the "Ley de Aviaciýn Comercial" (Commercial Aviation Act) was passed in Chile. Its main goal was to improve the air transport by means of "Open Sky Policies", competence (freedom of prices) and a progressive lesser intervention of the official authority. Since then an international air...

We study and compare the impact of two teachers’ quality instruments, teachers’ evaluation tests (TET) and teachers’ value added (TVA), on a middle-run outcome defined by tertiary education attendance in a developing country context. For this purpose, we follow several cohorts of students...

The main aim of this work is to explain the Chilean gender wage gap using a dynamic monopsony model to estimate the labor supply elasticities at the firm level. Our results suggest that the elasticities of labor supply to firms are small, which implies that firms have labor market power. We also...