The Transaction Costs of Government Responses to the COVID‐19 Emergency in Latin America
Edgar Ramírez, Profesor Investigador Titular de la División de Administración Pública, Eduardo José Grin, Pablo Sanabria‐Pulido, Daniel Cravacuore y Arturo Orellana escribieron The Transaction Costs of Government Responses to the COVID‐19 Emergency in Latin America, en la revista Public Administration Review. Abstract: The COVID‐19 pandemic has created a crisis that is challenging national and local governments
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An analysis of economic incentives to encourage organ donation: evidence from Chile | Latin American Economic Review
Marcela Parada-Contzen & Felipe Vásquez-Lavín perform a cost–benefit analysis on the introduction of monetary incentives for living kidney donations by estimating the compensation that would make an individual indifferent between donating and not donating a kidney while alive using Chilean data. We find that monetary incentives of US$12,000 save US$38,000 to health care system per donor and
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Delineating functional territories from outer space | Latin American Economic Review
The delimitation of functional spatial units or functional territories is an important topic in regional science and economic geography, since the empirical verification of many causal relationships is affected by the size and shape of these areas. This paper, written by Julio A. Berdegué, Tatiana Hiller, Juan Mauricio Ramírez, Santiago Satizábal, Isidro Soloaga, Juan Soto, Miguel Uribe & Olga Vargas , proposes a two-step
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The rise and fall of income inequality in Chile
This paper written by Francisco Parro and Loreto Reyes presents evidence on a rise and fall in income inequality in Chile during the past two decades. We show that income inequality rises from 1990 to 2000 and then falls from 2000 to 2011. We perform simple but informative decompositions to figure out the contributing factors
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Production risk and adoption of irrigation technology: evidence from small-scale farmers in Chile
In most developing countries non-irrigation status often dominates adoption of traditional and modern irrigation technology. In this paper, César Salazar and John Rand study the effect of production risk on irrigation technology choice among small-scale farmers in Chile, applying sample selection and discrete choice models. We find that more educated farmers, with credit access, receiving extension
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