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Activos y recursos de la población pobre en Chile

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  • Contreras, Dante

    (Departamento de Economía, Universidad de Chile)

  • Larrañaga, Osvaldo

    (Departamento de Economía, Universidad de Chile)

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The central pourpose of this research is to examine the links between asset holdings and poverty for the Chilean economy. The first section presents a review of previous poverty studies for Chile and offers a revised view of the evolution and characteristic of poverty in the last decade, including previously unpublished long term measurement data for Santiago. The second section analyses the relation between human capital and poverty for 1987 and 1996. This analysis is based on a careful estimation household assets through a valuation of available endowments for working age individuals, and corrected by labor participation choices. Evidence on the inter-generational transmission mechanism for assets is also presented on the basis of schools educational achievement.// El objetivo central de esta investigación es examinar los vínculos entre la tenencia de activos y la condición de pobreza en el caso de la economía chilena. La sección I presenta antecedentes de estudios previos de la pobreza en Chile y ofrece un panorama actualizado de las características y evolución de la pobreza en el pasado decenio, incluyendo una serie inédita de largo plazo para la variable en el caso de Santiago. La sección II analiza la relación entre capital humano y la pobreza durante 1987 y 1996. Esta última se basa en una cuidadosa estimación del activo de los hogares a partir de la valoración de la dotación disponible en cada individuo en edad de trabajar y corregida por la decisión de participación laboral. También se muestra evidencia de la transmisión intergeneracional del activo sobre la base del estudio de los logros educativos de las escuelas a las cuales asisten los niños en edad escolar.

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  • Contreras, Dante & Larrañaga, Osvaldo, 1999. "Activos y recursos de la población pobre en Chile," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 66(263), pages 459-500, julio-sep.
  • Handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:66:y:1999:i:263:p:459-500
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    1. Claudio A. Agostini & Philip H. Brown, 2011. "Cash Transfers And Poverty Reduction In Chile," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(3), pages 604-625, August.

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