Vol. 22, No. 1 (2007)
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Item Mexican ADRs in the 90s: As Good as Expected?(ILADES; Georgetown University; Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007) Boye, FrançoisItem Análisis de los Cambios en la Participación Laboral Femenina en Chile(ILADES; Georgetown University; Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007) Benvin, Evelyn; Perticara, MarcelaItem Return Autocorrelation Anomalies in Two European Stock Markets(ILADES; Georgetown University; Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007) García Blandón, JoséItem Desarrollo del Mercado de Derivados Cambiarios en Chile(ILADES; Georgetown University; Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007) Ahumada, Luis Antonio; Selaive, JorgeItem Desigualdad Geográfica en Chile(ILADES; Georgetown University; Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007) Agostini, Claudio; Brown, PhilipDespite success in reducing poverty over the last twenty years, inequality in Chile has remained virtually unchanged, making Chile one of the least equal countries in the world. High levels of inequality have been shown to hamper further reductions in poverty as well as economic growth and local inequality has been shown to affect such outcomes as violence and health. The study of inequality at the local level is thus crucial for understanding the economic well-being of a country. Local measures of inequality have been difficult to obtain, but recent theoretical advances have enabled the combination of survey and census data to obtain estimators of inequality that are robust at disaggregated geographic levels. In this paper, we employ this methodology to produce consistent estimators of inequality for every county in Chile. We find a great deal of variation in inequality, with countylevel Gini coefficients ranging from 0.41 to 0.63.