C Rossel
Biographic Data
| ID | 40617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Rossel |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Rossel |
| SIGNATURE | ROSSEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Católica del Uruguay |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2452-4522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Social Protection Coverage in Latin America: Aggregate and Individual-level Transformations
This paper analyzes the evolution of Latin American social protection systems during the inclusionary period from the beginning of the 2000s to the mid-2010s. Using microdata from household surveys across 17 countries, we build a traditional composite measure that provides a macro-level valuation of social protection (the Social Protection Aggregate Index, SPAI). We also propose an innovative index at the individual level (social protection depri…
Welfare conditionality in OECD countries and in Latin America: A comparative perspective
Cash benefit programs have increasingly emphasized conditionality in recent decades. Linking benefits to certain behavioral requirements has become a prominent feature of reforms of unemployment benefits (UBs) and related out-of-work benefits in high-income Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, but it has also been a defining feature of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in many emerging economies. This is…
Outsourcing of Domestic Work in Chile and Uruguay: Exploring Links with Time-Use Patterns
Beyond Formal Coverage: The True Reach of Family Policies in Latin America
Family policies are crucial for supporting population well‐being, yet conventional comparative analyses often fail to capture their true reach and effectiveness, particularly in developing regions. This paper develops a novel approach to evaluating family policies in Latin America. Using data from 2002 and 2022 for 17 Latin American countries, we compare statutory provisions with adjusted indicators that account for implementation constraints acr…
Welfare conditionality in Latin America's conditional cash transfers: Models and trends
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 conditionality and a novel, purpose‐built dataset covering 16 countries from 1997 to 2019, we analyze the evoluti…
Hours of Work and Early Childhood Education and Access to Care Services in Latin America: Evidence From Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay
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 amount of time women devote to care work. Women in these households devote more time to paid work, suc…
Housework and earnings: Intrahousehold evidence from Latin America
This paper analyzes the intrahousehold allocation of housework and paid work in five Latin American countries. Prior work has consistently shown that income plays a major role in the region's large gender gaps in the distribution of unpaid work at the aggregate level. However, the extent to which earnings shape intrahousehold decisions regarding the allocation of unpaid work remains unexplored. Using harmonized time-use surveys for Chile, Colombi…
How the exercise of the right to information (RTI) affects trust in political institutions
The politics of sanctioning the poor through welfare conditionality: Revealing causal mechanisms in Uruguay
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 punitive approach to conditionalities. We use process tracing to test our argument in a case involving…
Unraveling social inequalities in urban health care accessibility in Montevideo: A space-time approach
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 space-time provision of pediatric services in Montevideo (i.e., a survey of the times when pediatri…
Domestic isomorphic pressures in the design of FOI oversight institutions in Latin America
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 Chile, Peru and Uruguay, however, cannot fully be explained by political competition. We show how is…
Decisiones educativas y prácticas de reproducción de clase en sectores medios-altos en Montevideo
This article analyzes the educational decisions of the Montevideo upper middle classes and their significance as practices of reproduction and class distinction. Based on a time series of household surveys and the qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with university professionals, the article investigates how the upper middle classes choose the education of their children. To do this, it identifies and describes several different profiles:…
La ilusión de una región de clases medias: El caso de Uruguay
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 (1993-2016) using two complementary measures: one based on income and the other on occupation. The result…
Transnational Diffusion of Health Policy Ideas in Uruguay in the Early Twentieth Century
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 secular and republican model instituted in France at the end of the nineteenth century when Fran…
Uruguay 2020: El despliegue de la agenda de centro derecha en contexto de pandemia
El año 2020 en Uruguay estuvo marcado por el despliegue de la agenda del nuevo gobierno de centro derecha en el contexto de la pandemia del COVID-19. Este artículo analiza este proceso prestando especial atenciÃ3n a la dinámica política de la nueva coaliciÃ3n de gobierno y la oposiciÃ3n, en el contexto regional de ascenso de partidos conservadores. El artículo muestra que el nuevo gobierno logrÃ3 aprovechar el contexto de la pandemia para despleg…
Family Policies Across the Globe
This chapter analyzes family policies across the globe, describing patterns in the development of family allowances, leave schemes, and ECEC services both in developed and developing regions. Using the OECD family database and the ILO global social protection database, it compares the developments in family policy across different regions. The chapter reveals that the way regions and countries in the world have followed the main goals of family p…
Poverty and inequality in Latin America’s research agenda: A bibliometric review
Cuánto pueden condicionar las condicionalidades? Evidencia sobre las asignaciones familiares de Argentina y Uruguay
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 y el eventual cambio de comportamiento de las familias, aquí se profundiza en cómo las condicionalid…
A field experiment on bureaucratic discretionary bias under FOI laws
Quién maneja la caja? Financiamiento político y estructuras partidarias en Uruguay
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 public subsidy per vote, the practices of financing vary from one party to another and also within the …
Unfolding Patterns of Unpaid Household Work in Latin America
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 individual-level variables related to the allocation of unpaid work. When decomposing the gender gap in …
Inequality and access to social services in Latin America: Space–time constraints of child health checkups and prenatal care in Montevideo
Winning a Battle but Losing the War? Third Sector and Social Policy in Latin America: The Case of Uruguay
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 policy, but also for the very identity and constitutive characteristics of the third sector. The eviden…
Unfolding Patterns of Unpaid Household Work in Latin America
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 individual-level variables related to the allocation of unpaid work. When decomposing the gender gap in …
A field experiment on bureaucratic discretionary bias under FOI laws
Inequality and access to social services in Latin America: Space–time constraints of child health checkups and prenatal care in Montevideo
Domestic isomorphic pressures in the design of FOI oversight institutions in Latin America
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 Chile, Peru and Uruguay, however, cannot fully be explained by political competition. We show how is…
Welfare conditionality in Latin America's conditional cash transfers: Models and trends
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 conditionality and a novel, purpose‐built dataset covering 16 countries from 1997 to 2019, we analyze the evoluti…
Housework and earnings: Intrahousehold evidence from Latin America
This paper analyzes the intrahousehold allocation of housework and paid work in five Latin American countries. Prior work has consistently shown that income plays a major role in the region's large gender gaps in the distribution of unpaid work at the aggregate level. However, the extent to which earnings shape intrahousehold decisions regarding the allocation of unpaid work remains unexplored. Using harmonized time-use surveys for Chile, Colombi…
Unraveling social inequalities in urban health care accessibility in Montevideo: A space-time approach
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 space-time provision of pediatric services in Montevideo (i.e., a survey of the times when pediatri…
Uruguay 2020: El despliegue de la agenda de centro derecha en contexto de pandemia
El año 2020 en Uruguay estuvo marcado por el despliegue de la agenda del nuevo gobierno de centro derecha en el contexto de la pandemia del COVID-19. Este artículo analiza este proceso prestando especial atenciÃ3n a la dinámica política de la nueva coaliciÃ3n de gobierno y la oposiciÃ3n, en el contexto regional de ascenso de partidos conservadores. El artículo muestra que el nuevo gobierno logrÃ3 aprovechar el contexto de la pandemia para despleg…
La ilusión de una región de clases medias: El caso de Uruguay
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 (1993-2016) using two complementary measures: one based on income and the other on occupation. The result…
Winning a Battle but Losing the War? Third Sector and Social Policy in Latin America: The Case of Uruguay
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 policy, but also for the very identity and constitutive characteristics of the third sector. The eviden…
How the exercise of the right to information (RTI) affects trust in political institutions
The politics of sanctioning the poor through welfare conditionality: Revealing causal mechanisms in Uruguay
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 punitive approach to conditionalities. We use process tracing to test our argument in a case involving…
Inequality and access to social services in Latin America: Space–time constraints of child health checkups and prenatal care in Montevideo
Winning a Battle but Losing the War? Third Sector and Social Policy in Latin America: The Case of Uruguay
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 policy, but also for the very identity and constitutive characteristics of the third sector. The eviden…
Unfolding Patterns of Unpaid Household Work in Latin America
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 individual-level variables related to the allocation of unpaid work. When decomposing the gender gap in …
A field experiment on bureaucratic discretionary bias under FOI laws
Quién maneja la caja? Financiamiento político y estructuras partidarias en Uruguay
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 public subsidy per vote, the practices of financing vary from one party to another and also within the …
Family Policies Across the Globe
This chapter analyzes family policies across the globe, describing patterns in the development of family allowances, leave schemes, and ECEC services both in developed and developing regions. Using the OECD family database and the ILO global social protection database, it compares the developments in family policy across different regions. The chapter reveals that the way regions and countries in the world have followed the main goals of family p…
Poverty and inequality in Latin America’s research agenda: A bibliometric review
Cuánto pueden condicionar las condicionalidades? Evidencia sobre las asignaciones familiares de Argentina y Uruguay
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 y el eventual cambio de comportamiento de las familias, aquí se profundiza en cómo las condicionalid…
Transnational Diffusion of Health Policy Ideas in Uruguay in the Early Twentieth Century
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 secular and republican model instituted in France at the end of the nineteenth century when Fran…
Uruguay 2020: El despliegue de la agenda de centro derecha en contexto de pandemia
El año 2020 en Uruguay estuvo marcado por el despliegue de la agenda del nuevo gobierno de centro derecha en el contexto de la pandemia del COVID-19. Este artículo analiza este proceso prestando especial atenciÃ3n a la dinámica política de la nueva coaliciÃ3n de gobierno y la oposiciÃ3n, en el contexto regional de ascenso de partidos conservadores. El artículo muestra que el nuevo gobierno logrÃ3 aprovechar el contexto de la pandemia para despleg…
Unraveling social inequalities in urban health care accessibility in Montevideo: A space-time approach
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 space-time provision of pediatric services in Montevideo (i.e., a survey of the times when pediatri…
Domestic isomorphic pressures in the design of FOI oversight institutions in Latin America
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 Chile, Peru and Uruguay, however, cannot fully be explained by political competition. We show how is…
Decisiones educativas y prácticas de reproducción de clase en sectores medios-altos en Montevideo
This article analyzes the educational decisions of the Montevideo upper middle classes and their significance as practices of reproduction and class distinction. Based on a time series of household surveys and the qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with university professionals, the article investigates how the upper middle classes choose the education of their children. To do this, it identifies and describes several different profiles:…
La ilusión de una región de clases medias: El caso de Uruguay
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 (1993-2016) using two complementary measures: one based on income and the other on occupation. The result…
Housework and earnings: Intrahousehold evidence from Latin America
This paper analyzes the intrahousehold allocation of housework and paid work in five Latin American countries. Prior work has consistently shown that income plays a major role in the region's large gender gaps in the distribution of unpaid work at the aggregate level. However, the extent to which earnings shape intrahousehold decisions regarding the allocation of unpaid work remains unexplored. Using harmonized time-use surveys for Chile, Colombi…
How the exercise of the right to information (RTI) affects trust in political institutions
The politics of sanctioning the poor through welfare conditionality: Revealing causal mechanisms in Uruguay
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 punitive approach to conditionalities. We use process tracing to test our argument in a case involving…
Welfare conditionality in Latin America's conditional cash transfers: Models and trends
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 conditionality and a novel, purpose‐built dataset covering 16 countries from 1997 to 2019, we analyze the evoluti…
Hours of Work and Early Childhood Education and Access to Care Services in Latin America: Evidence From Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay
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 amount of time women devote to care work. Women in these households devote more time to paid work, suc…
Outsourcing of Domestic Work in Chile and Uruguay: Exploring Links with Time-Use Patterns
Beyond Formal Coverage: The True Reach of Family Policies in Latin America
Family policies are crucial for supporting population well‐being, yet conventional comparative analyses often fail to capture their true reach and effectiveness, particularly in developing regions. This paper develops a novel approach to evaluating family policies in Latin America. Using data from 2002 and 2022 for 17 Latin American countries, we compare statutory provisions with adjusted indicators that account for implementation constraints acr…
Social Protection Coverage in Latin America: Aggregate and Individual-level Transformations
This paper analyzes the evolution of Latin American social protection systems during the inclusionary period from the beginning of the 2000s to the mid-2010s. Using microdata from household surveys across 17 countries, we build a traditional composite measure that provides a macro-level valuation of social protection (the Social Protection Aggregate Index, SPAI). We also propose an innovative index at the individual level (social protection depri…
Welfare conditionality in OECD countries and in Latin America: A comparative perspective
Cash benefit programs have increasingly emphasized conditionality in recent decades. Linking benefits to certain behavioral requirements has become a prominent feature of reforms of unemployment benefits (UBs) and related out-of-work benefits in high-income Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, but it has also been a defining feature of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in many emerging economies. This is…
Political science (19 works) · Economics (12 works) · Latin Americans (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works)