– Rates of return to investments in schooling have been estimated since the late 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several attempts to synthesize the empirical results to ascertain ...

Purpose: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to (1) determine the proportion of patients who underwent anterior shoulder instability surgery and did not return to sports for psychological reasons and (2) estimate ...

Using a panel data of innovative Chilean firms, we obtain a private return for R&D expenditure close to 30% during the nineties. Despite the fact of being almost twice the return obtained for physical capital - 17 %, ...

BACKGROUND: To convert first-time blood donors into regular volunteer donors is a challenge to transfusion services. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to estimate the return rate of first time donors of the Ribeirão Preto Blood ...

The aim of this paper is to calculate the rate of return and the net present value for several fields of university studies in Chile. The methodology employed involves the use of earnings over the life cycle for individuals ...

Commodity studies have concluded that the traditional Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) has failed to explain the cross-section of commodity futures returns. However, these studies are based exclusively on shortest ...

Brazilian higher education has been expanding for at least twelve years. Through the analysis of data from the Higher Education Census (2017), it is possible to see an increase in the number of enrollments and in the offer ...

In this paper we show that the Chilean exchange rate has the ability to predict the returns of the London Metal Exchange Index and of the six primary non-ferrous metals that are part of the index: aluminum, copper, lead, ...