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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
We estimate the effect of a permanent income increase on the health outcomes of the elderly poor. Our regression discontinuity design exploits an eligibility cutoff in a Chilean basic pension program that grants monthly payments to retirees without a contributory pension. Using administrative data, we find that four years after applying, basic pension recipients are 2.7 percentage points less likely to have died. Survey evidence suggests an increase in food consumption and visits to health centers as relevant drivers of the mortality reduction. (JEL D63, G51, I12, I14, I38, J14, O15)
2020 •
We document that life expectancies at the age of retirement differ significantly by income levels and gender in Chile. Using a sample of over 500 thousand workers that retired under the annuity system, we find that, conditional on reaching retirement age, there is a three-year difference in life expectancy between the lower and higher income groups. Differences are similar for men and women. We also find that as income per capita in Chile expanded over the past three decades, poverty levels have decreased quite markedly among pensioners. The evidence on income distribution is less clear cut. While income inequality is lower for the new generations, it increases after retirement within each generation as the poor die younger than the rich workers. Gender differences are also noteworthy. First, income among women is less unequal than that of men at retirement age and afterwards. Second, income inequality among retired men progressively worsens over time, while among women it remains s...
SSRN Electronic Journal
The Effects of Means-Tested, Noncontributory Pensions on Poverty and Well-Being: Evidence from the Chilean Pension Reforms2017 •
2019 •
3University College London and Institute of Fiscal Studies. m.vera@ucl.ac.uk A poorly understood but important way that economic conditions influence health is through the incentives that they create for health investments. In this paper, we study how individuals’ current health investments respond to changes in expected future wealth, focusing on Chile’s 1981 public pension. We compile detailed administrative pension data linked to a rich household panel survey, and we then exploit discrete breaks in the reform’s impact on expected pension wealth across cohorts of Chileans using a fuzzy regression kink design to estimate how health behavior, preventive health care use, and chronic disease diagnoses respond to changes in expected pension wealth. Consistent with theoretical predictions, we find that greater expected pension wealth increases the use of medical services – and in turn, the detection of chronic diseases. More generally, our results provide new empirical evidence of forwa...
2002 •
Using data collected in a survey on risk and social insurance in Chile, Packard finds that workers who entered the labor market after the pension reform of 1981 have a greater �contribution density� than those who contributed to the previous social security system. Further, the expectation of care from children and the amount spent on their education significantly lowers the
EditingNETWORKED SPACES: THE SPATIALITY OF NETWORKS IN THE RED SEA AND WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN
Vingt années de fouilles des ports pharaoniques d’Ayn Soukhna et du Ouadi el-Jarf sur la côte occidentale du golfe de Suez (2001-2020)2022 •
The excavation of the sites of Ayn Sukhna and then Wadi el-Jarf on the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea has made it possible, these last twenty years, to reassess the implication of the Pharaonic State in this area and its participation in the networks of exchanges in the Red Sea. From the beginning of the Old Kingdom, the Egyptian monarchy, whose need for copper was considerably increased by the policy of major works in the Nile Valley, set up an expeditionary system that allowed it to send teams of miners to the South Sinai zone, both by land and by sea. This involved the establishment of intermittent harbours – occupied only during the time of the expedition – on the maritime coast, which served as a logistical platform for the expeditions: Wadi el-Jarf first, then Ayn Sukhna. The recent work carried out on these two sites also allows a better understanding of the daily life of the expeditions, the organization of their supply, or to study the craft activities they practiced, which is a significant contribution to the history of techniques in ancient Egypt.
2019 •
The Time is at Hand!
The Time is at Hand! Ahrimanic and Michaelic Immortality and the Apocalypse of the Age of Michael2024 •
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14:10
The smelting of copper in the third millennium cal BC Trentino, north‑eastern Italy2022 •
2017 •
Urban Policy Dialogues
In-situ Redevelopment of Slums: Simulation Model of Financial Feasibility2019 •
Steven C. Chapra Berger Chair in Computing and Engineering Tufts University
Applied Numerical Methods with MATLAB® for Engineers and Scientists2012 •
2022 •
Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
Importance of Three-Dimensional Modeling in Cranioplasty2019 •
Proceedings of LREC-COLING, Torino, Italy
Replace, Paraphrase or Fine-tune? Evaluating Automatic Simplification for Medical Texts in SpanishJournal of Forensic Economics
Unintended Consequences of Tort Reform: Rent Seeking in New York State's Structured Settlements Statutes2000 •
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Sol–gel S-doped TiO2 materials for environmental protection2008 •
Public health research & practice
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ Quitline use and the Tackling Indigenous Smoking program2024 •
IFIP advances in information and communication technology
Aerospace Assembly Gap Measurement Using Low Cost Smart Tools with Machine Vision2018 •
Latin american law review
Educación jurídica y tecnología: El potencial para democratizar el conocimiento y el poder jurídicos2023 •
Frontiers in Plant Science
Can High Throughput Phenotyping Help Food Security in the Mediterranean Area?2019 •
Ingeniare. Revista chilena de ingeniería
Goal-oriented dashboard's requirements with i: a case study2016 •
The Journal of Immunology
Recycling CD1d1 Molecules Present Endogenous Antigens Processed in an Endocytic Compartment to NKT Cells2002 •