Sonia Bhalotra, Emilia Brito, Damian Clarke, Pilar Larroulet, Francisco J. Pino - UNU-WIDER, 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
We leverage staggered implementation of lockdown across Chile’s 346 municipalities, identifying dynamic impacts on domestic violence.
Using administrative data, we find lockdown imposition increases indicators of distress related to domestic violence, while decreasing domestic violence...
– On the role of legibility in tax state development
Matthias vom Hau, José Peres-Cajías, Hillel David Soifer - UNU-WIDER, 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
This paper combines cross-national statistical analysis and in-depth historical case studies of Argentina and Chile to explore the relationship between two crucial dimensions of state capacity.
We show that information capacity contributes to the development of fiscal capacity. States require...
Gabriela Zapata-Román - UNU-WIDER, 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment, wage inequality, and job polarization in Chile from 1992 to 2017. Changes in occupational structure confirm a displacement of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs...
Inés Berniell, Lucila Berniell, Dolores de la Mata, María Edo, Mariana Marchionni - UNU-WIDER, 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay.
Our main contributions are: (i) providing new...
Gregory Clark - UNU-WIDER, 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
In societies where surnames are inherited from parents, we can use these names to estimate rates of intergenerational mobility.
This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile and India.
These surname estimates have the...
Andrés Solimano, Gabriela Zapata-Román - UNU-WIDER, 2019 - Helsinki, Finland
This paper describes the structural transformations that Chile has experienced in the last 50 years and how they have contributed—or not—to inclusive growth and genuine economic modernization from a historical perspective. The empirical analysis of the paper shows a premature...
Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Guido Neidhöfer - UNU-WIDER, 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
This paper examines Chile Solidario, a social protection programme that provides poor households in Chile with preferential access to a conditional cash transfer programme designed to facilitate investments in children’s health and education. We assess the programme’s longer-term...
Guillermo Cruces, Gary S. Fields, David Jaume, Mariana Viollaz - Oxford University Press, 2017
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment...
Andrés Solimano, Diego Calderón Guajardo - UNU-WIDER, 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
Historically, Chile has been an economy dominated by mineral and agro-industrial products and subject to frequent external shocks particularly in copper prices. Since the 1980s, the authorities have developed various mechanisms to cope with these shocks and dampen their effects on the domestic...
Verónica Amarante, Martin Brun - UNU-WIDER, 2016 - Helsinki, Finland
In this paper, we present comparative evidence for eight Latin American countries regarding design and effects of cash transfers (CTs). On the basis of household survey data, we analyse their coverage, importance in household income, and effects on poverty reduction and income redistribution.We...
– How elites influence tax legislation in Latin America
Juan A. Bogliaccini, Juan Pablo Luna - UNU-WIDER, 2016 - Helsinki, Finland
This paper proposes to understand a singular but salient factor that enables the wealthy to deflect their tax burden downwards: elites’ political leverage to shape legislation via their capacity to influence political actors and policy outcomes. The analysis sheds light on alternative...