Symposium on Spatial Inequality in Latin America

Chronobiology in Latin America: XIII Latin American Symposium on Chronobiology

I am glad to announce this special issue of Sleep Science that is dedicated to presented papers at XIII Latin American Symposium on Chronobiology (XIII Simpósio Latino Americano de Cronobiologia). The Latin American Symposium on Chronobiology (LASC) is a biennial international scientific meeting in which projects are presented and discussed, involving students and researchers from Latin America...

Historical Roots of Inequality in Latin America

Following Engerman and Sokoloff (1997, 2000, 2002) and Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001, 2002), the authors of this chapter argue that the contemporary situation cannot be understood without recognizing that extreme inequality emerged soon after the Europeans began to colonize the Americas half a millennium ago, and has been reflected in the institutions they put in place. Both this initia...

Inequality in Latin America: Determinants and Consequences

Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America: A Causal Ana

Market Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America and the Caribbean

This article analyzes how politics influences Latin American and Caribbean income inequality. Most studies view the distributional process in two phases with inequality shaped first by markets and then by state redistribution. Typically, cross-national analyses of inequality limit the influence of politics to the redistributive phase. But we argue that a full understanding of how government aff...