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Empathy and socially responsible consumption: an experiment with the vote-with-the-wallet game
(SPRINGER, 2020-11)
We study by means of a laboratory experiment the role of individuals' empathy in the Vote-with-the-Wallet Game. Our main purpose is to analyze the impact of the ability to empathize on participants' behavior when asked to ...
Concentration of human capital, externalities and the wage gap in US metro areas
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2020-11)
The effects of the concentration of human capital on wages and productivity have been widely studied, but despite their heterogeneity, little attention has been paid to its effects on the wage gap. This paper assesses the ...
Understanding policy change through bricolage: The case of Chile's renewable energy policy
(WILEY, 2020-07)
Chile is a country where path dependency made energy policy change extremely difficult by international standards. However, the country has recently become a renewable energy poster child thanks to a gradual process of ...
Spatial inequality and aspirations for economic inclusion among Latin American youth
(Elsevier, 2020-11)
Youths' aspirations formation is typically analysed in its association with individual, family and school characteristics. This paper adopts a wider perspective and uses descriptive and econometric analysis to investigate ...
Contingent Coalitions in Environmental Policymaking: How Civil Society Organizations Influenced the Chilean Renewable Energy Boom
(Wiley, 2020-08)
This article analyzes the role of social movements and environmental organizations in crafting contingent coalitions to advance renewable energies in Chile. Until recently, Chile presented several conditions predicting the ...
Varieties of Skills Profiles in Latin America: A Reassessment of the Hierarchical Model of Capitalism
(Chile. Universidad Mayor, 2020)
Research on the politics of skills formation in Latin America is severely underdeveloped. This article offers a novel characterisation of the supply of skills in the region or 'skills supply profiles', taking inspiration ...
Right-Wing Moderation, Left-Wing Inertia and Political Cartelisation in Post-Transition Chile
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-05)
By examining the Manifesto Project data for post-transition Chile, we show growing convergence in the electoral competition strategies between the centre-left and centre-right coalitions. While the former is characterised ...
Perception and legitimation in the face of socioecological inequalities in contemporary Chile
(Latin American Studies Association, 2020)
This article analyzes the perceptions about and legitimation of inequalities in the case of Chile, focusing on the socioecological dimension. It shows the results of a four-year qualitative study carried out in five cases ...
Time use: the role of sleep
(Elsevier Ltd., 2020-06)
Time use models have been used to estimate the value of leisure - one of the components of the value of travel time savings - usually accepting that sleep duration is an exogenous variable. In this paper, we depart from ...
Mining sequences in activities for time use analysis
(IOS Press, 2020-05)
By providing a complete record of time use for a given population, time use studies enable investigators to test various hypotheses concerning that behavior. However, the large number and variety of activity combinations ...