Social assistance programs and implicit taxes on the income of destitute and poor households: The case of Chile between 1990 and 2009

Monday, 30 July, 2012 | Por
Programas de asistencia social e impuestos a los ingresos indigentes y pobres: el caso de Chile entre 1990 y 2009. Ricardo Guzmán, Rodrigo Troncoso, 2012. ABSTRACT Social assistance programs that include ...


In first place CICS wins CONICYT ANILLOS GRANT

Tuesday, 24 July, 2012 | Por
The Government Faculty of Universidad del Desarrollo, through its Research Center in Social Complexity (CICS) has been granted funds for the project "Social Complexity" by the contest “Tercer ...


Life is good! We are accepting applications for one term sabbaticals

Wednesday, 11 July, 2012 | Por
We start a Sabbatical Program next semester for the purpose of opening our space, and the southern research community in general, to any professor who wants to interact ...


The Research area of Facultad de Gobierno (Government Faculty) UDD launches its first newsletter “Parámetro”

Tuesday, 10 July, 2012 | Por
"Parámetro" is the Newsletter of Research of Facultad de Gobierno (Government Faculty) of Universidad del Desarrollo, it aims to inform about the activities lead by the department ...


“Plasticidad del altruismo humano: Un estudio de caso en niños”. Charla de Mariana Lozada.

Thursday, 5 July, 2012 | Por
(spanish version only) Mariana Lozada, bióloga de CONICET y PhD en neurobiología -memoria y aprendizaje- de la Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina, nos visita entre el 9 y el 13 ...


The economics of social stratification in premodern societies

Wednesday, 4 July, 2012 | Por
Robert Rowthorn, Ricardo Andrés Guzmán and Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2011. ABSTRACT We present a microeconomic model of social strati…cation, which includes an endogenous fertility component. In ...


We seek for a Research and PhD program coordinator

Tuesday, 3 July, 2012 | Por
We are searching for a motivated coordinator of Research and PhD Program. If you are interested send us you CV and presentation letter. Estamos buscando un coordinador motivado ...


The reactive social brain

Tuesday, 3 July, 2012 | Por
MORE FRIENDS, MORE COMMUNICATION, MORE INTELLIGENT. OR IS IT BACKWARDS? For animals that live in small groups, the costs of having a big brain outweigh its benefits. This ...


The human singularity in the mating choice

Tuesday, 3 July, 2012 | Por
HASTA QUE LA EMPATÍA LOS SEPARE Once you are part of a species linked by couples, you have a problem: you have to choose someone. And we do ...


Three degrees of distance on Twitter

Tuesday, 3 July, 2012 | Por
FOLLOW 4 FOLLOW This project analyzes the retweet as a contagious behavior to study distance the phenomenon of the three degrees of distance on Twitter. In their research, ...


Structure of the Moral Judgments in the General Population

Tuesday, 3 July, 2012 | Por
KILL ONE OR SAVE FIVE? How do we decide what course to take in complex situations? Ricardo Guzmán studies the consistency of our intuitions against a parameterized moral ...


100 years after Alan Turing’s birth

Tuesday, 3 July, 2012 | Por
100 years passed since Alan Turing was born and in CICS UDD we want to honor this important event with 4 lectures. Beyond that, we intent to ...