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Mi investigación está estructurada en tres ejes centrales: el estudio de la economía política del bienestar y las políticas sociales; la forma en que los ciudadanos se relacionan con las políticas públicas y el estado, y el análisis de la protección social, el bienestar, la vulnerabilidad y la desigualdad, con especial foco en América Latina.
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The opting out of public services and the segregation of income groups has raised concerns about the future of Latin America’s fragmented social contract. We examine the evolution of private education and health insurance use in selected countries from 2000 to 2018 and its association with socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes relevant to...
To what extent have Latin America's Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs adopted different forms of conditionality? What are the main features of this variation, if any? In this article, we show that conditionalities vary across Latin America's CCTs and across time within programs. Drawing on existing conceptualizations of welfare conditionalit...
This paper explores the relationship between access to early childhood education and care (ECEC) services and family arrangements in the distribution of work in four Latin American countries. We find that households in which all children aged 0 to 5 receive ECEC services exhibit smaller gender gaps in unpaid work, mainly due to a decrease in the am...
Various countries throughout the world have enacted transparency reforms, especially reforms oriented toward increasing access to government information (right to information, RTI). While researchers have published thorough examinations of the impact of such reforms, no study to date has surveyed how the successful exercise of this RTI affects inst...
What explains the ‘punitive turn’ toward more stringent conditionalities in welfare policies? Answering this question is crucial in a region such as Latin America, where cash transfers have proven politically consequential for incumbents. Our argument emphasises the role of electoral competition in shaping a government's decision to adopt a more pu...
El acceso es una de las dimensiones centrales para explicar los resultados en materia de tratamiento y prevención de enfermedades. Este artículo explora la accesibilidad espacio-temporal a la atención pediátrica de salud en la ciudad de Montevideo. Trabaja con distintos escenarios generados a partir de parámetros básicos de accesibilidad: modo de t...
Este artículo analiza las decisiones educativas de las clases medias altas montevideanas y su significado como prácticas de reproducción y distinción de clase. Con base en una serie temporal de encuestas de hogares y el análisis cualitativo de entrevistas en profundidad a profesionales universitarios, se indaga por la forma en que las clases medias...
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This paper addresses how transport-related factors and health service provision negatively impacts women's wellbeing and healthcare accessibility. It analyzes space-time costs for the transport component but also those resulting from healthcare quality provision. In particular, it focused on the role played by gender inequality in the...
Even though many countries in Latin America have adopted FOI Laws, there are significant differences in the institutional design of FOI oversight institutions. Most explanations highlight the role of political competition in motivating political actors to design strong de jure FOI oversight institutions. The design of FOI oversight institutions in...
Access to urban health care opportunities is a major factor in explaining health outcomes. We propose an innovative methodology to analyze spatio-temporal accessibility considering spatial, temporal, and individual variability on both the demand and the supply side. To construct the measure, we use three primary sources: an exhaustive survey of the...
The expansion of middle-income sectors has, in recent years, drawn the attention of academia, international organizations, and governments. However, more recently, several studies have pointed to the vulnerability of these sectors. Based on household surveys, this paper analyzes the evolution of the middle classes in Uruguay in recent decades (1993...
This article analyzes how policy ideas already adopted in Europe, particularly in France, were taken into consideration for the design of Uruguay’s National Public Assistance (NPA) policy. Established in 1910, the NPA was a pioneering government social policy for the time and for the region.
Some have argued that the design of the NPA law followed...
The year 2020 in Uruguay was characterized by the unfolding of the agenda of the new center-right government in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper analyzes this process, paying special attention to the political dynamics between the new multi party coalition government and the opposition, under the regional context of the rise of cons...
Este artículo analiza el mecanismo causal que subyace a las condicionalidades a partir del análisis de los procesos de implementación de la Asignación Universal por Hijo de Argentina y el Régimen de Asignaciones Familiares (Plan de Equidad) de Uruguay. Para ello, con el objetivo de aportar elementos sobre la relación causal entre condicionalidades...
How is research on social issues shaped in Latin America? How much attention do researchers give to poverty and inequality? What is the focus of research on these issues? The paper analyses the main patterns of academic publications on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Based on a bibliometric review of publications on poverty and inequality...
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In 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world fully to regulate its marijuana market. This ambitious policy was also an unexpected one: none of the usual explanations for legalization of marijuana in other contexts was present in the Uruguayan case. This paper offers an explanation for why Uruguay legalized marijuana. D...
This article analyzes the behavior of the political parties in Uruguay in relation to electoral finance, as a window for understanding the logics of the way parties function. This analysis of the case of Uruguay reveals how, under the same electoral system, with the same norms for the regulation of spending and funding, and the same system of a pub...
The gap between the approval of RTI laws and their implementation leaves room for discretionary bias and discrimination from government officials. This paper explores possible discretionary bias and ultimately discriminatory behavior exhibited by Uruguayan government agencies while answering RTI requests. We explore whether public officials are mor...
Este documento busca contribuir a la discusión sobre tiempo y género en la región desde la perspectiva de la geografía del tiempo. Esta mirada, complementaria a la acumulación sobre usos del tiempo y tipos de trabajo, pone el foco en los constreñimientos espacio-temporales que las familias, en particular las mujeres, enfrentan para realizar las act...
Although Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay show similar empirical patterns in terms of time women devote to unpaid work, they also present important variations in how unpaid work is distributed between men and women. Using time-use surveys for the 2007–10 period, this study finds a uniform pattern across the four countries regarding the main indi...
Influential research shows that conditionalities could incentivize recipients of Conditional Cash Transfer programmes (CCTs) to send their children to school and to regular health checkups. However, a growing literature is posing the risks of conditioning transfers, from a both philosophical and an empirical perspective. This work highlights the va...
This book reflects on the public policies, programmes and regulatory frameworks that are taking a rights-based approach to expanding social protection coverage and benefits in Latin America, with a view to achieving universal coverage. The book’s discussion of the policy tools and programmes pursued in the region aims to provide the reader with tec...
El objetivo de este libro es discutir y difundir conocimiento sobre aquellas políticas públicas, programas y marcos regulatorios que, desde un enfoque de derechos, están permitiendo ampliar la cobertura y las prestaciones de la protección social en América Latina.
This paper explores the role of space-time constraints in determining the conditions under which people access to basic social services. To do so, the paper addresses two empirical questions: (i) how travel time impacts families’ strategies for choosing and using social services, and (ii) how service characteristics become part of the constraints f...
This paper analyzes some aspects of the third sector’s involvement process in the provision of public social services. Using evidence garnered in previous research based on in-depth interviews, I offer elements toward an assessment of the consequences this process has produced not only in terms of the gains and losses it has produced for social pol...
The main goal of this article is to review recent experience of effective teaching recognition policies in Latin America. The article examines the main issues related to the recognition of teaching by summarizing experiences of awards to teachers in the region, describing their results and limitations. The article outlines the most important charac...
The article analyzes the current situation of youth in Uruguay, showing the structural factors that are related to poverty and inequality in two areas: education and work. The first argument is that although poverty among youths has recently declined, inequality appears to be growing. The second argument is that this situation results from a combin...
The article analyzes a type of citizen participation in public managenet: third sector delivery of public social services through contracting-out. Acknowledging the increasing importance this mechanism has and taking concrete experiences in Uruguay and Spain, the paper describes its main characteristics and challenges. The main goal of this exercis...
