Esta investigación estudia la cultura de acceso a la información en las instituciones públicas costarricenses, por iniciativa propia, y cómo el Estado responden a estas solicitudes. El estudio permite concluir que, a pesar ...

El presente documento corresponde al Trabajo Final de Graduación, requisito para optar por el grado de Licenciatura en Sociología, bajo la modalidad de Tesis. La investigación buscó responder a la interrogante: ¿Cuáles son ...

In Costa Rica government transfers to the elderly population are exceptionally high in per capita terms. In contrast, net transfers from adult children to elderly parents are negligible until the parents reach very ...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo examinar los patrones reproductivos de la población inmigrante y evaluar en qué medida difieren de los de la población española, utilizando las biografías migratorias y reproductivas de ...

This article proposes an indirect method to validate existing estimates of immigrants’ stock from the Spanish municipal population register, which some believe might be over-counting immigrants who double register in ...

Despite the large number of studies, mostly in developed economies, there is limited consensus on the health effects of inequality. Recently a related literature has examined the relationship between relative deprivation ...

This paper addresses a central debate in research and policy on population and environment, namely the extent to which rapid population growth is associated with the massive deforestation currently underway in the tropics. ...

A long-standing concern of sociologists is the contribution of diffusion processes to social change. This article considers the contribution of social interaction diffusion to the fertility transition in Costa Rica, focusing ...