This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on household survey microdata from 20 countries. The situation of older people is characterized in terms of income, employment, education, health…

This paper derives unbalanced versions of the tests statistics for first order serial correlation and random individual e®ects summarized in Sosa Escudero and Bera (2001), and updates their xttest1 routine. The derived tests statistics should be useful for applied researchers…

Despite the importance of housing for people's well-being, there is little evidence on the causal impact of housing and housing improvement programs on health and welfare. In this paper, we help to fill this gap by investigating the impact of…

In the midst of a serious macroeconomic crisis Argentina implemented a large social program -the Programa Jefes de Hogar (PJH)- that provides cash transfers to unemployed household heads meeting certain criteria. In practice, giving the difficulties in monitoring informal jobs,…

En este trabajo se analiza la emergencia de sistemas de educación de gran escala en un marco donde el crecimiento se asocia con cambios en la configuración de la economía. Se modelan los incentivos que le elite económica puede tener…