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Este trabajo se propuso dar cuenta de la incidencia de la Asignación Universal por Hijo en las trayectorias escolares de jóvenes de hogares migrantes bolivianos dedicados a la horticultura, que se encuentran en situaciones de vulnerabilidad económica, social y educativa. Se señalaron las trayectorias escolares y socio-productivas de los/las jóvenes seleccionados/as, y se dio cuenta de las asistencias y del rendimiento escolar de dichos/as alumnos/as y su vinculación con la AUH. Se realizó un estudio de casos situado en el periurbano hortícola platense con una cohorte que va de 2011 a 2017, ya que allí se ubica una escuela media pública, en la que un porcentaje relevante de los/as alumnos/as son migrantes o hijos/as de bolivianos/as y perceptores/as de la AUH. La metodología fue de carácter cualitativo. Se complementó con una de carácter cuantitativo. Las técnicas que se utilizaron para la recolección/co-construcción de datos fueron entrevistas en profundidad y observación etnográfica, como también se recurrió a archivos estadísticos de la Escuela. Se concluyó que la AUH incidió positivamente sobre las trayectorias pues mejoró la inclusión educativa de estos/as jóvenes alumnos/as.

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Este estudio analiza el impacto distributivo de la Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH), un programa masivo de Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas que fue implementado en Argentina a fines de 2009. Para dicho propósito no sólo se considera el efecto ingreso directo de esta transferencia sino que se evalúan también algunas repercusiones distributivas indirectas y las potencialidades del programa bajo diseños alternativos. Los resultados sugieren que la AUH contribuyó a una reducción significativa de la pobreza y la desigualdad. Sin embargo, los desincentivos hacia la formalidad laboral del programa y algunas características del diseño simple actual impiden un efecto distributivo más alto.

El siguiente trabajo tiene como objetivo dar cuenta de la incidencia de la Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH), en las representaciones de las madres perceptoras de la misma con hijos/as que asisten a una Escuela Primaria ubicada en el barrio Villa Argüello (Berisso, Provincia de Bs. As.). Para ello, se propuso comprender las representaciones de dichas madres respecto de la escolaridad en el nivel primario de sus hijos/as y, de las políticas sociales en general y de la AUH en particular, observando los cambios y/o continuidades en las respectivas representaciones a partir de la percepción de la AUH. El trabajo se realizó mediante un enfoque metodológico cualitativo basado en entrevistas en profundidad y observación etnográfica como técnicas principales de recolección/construcción de datos. Se concluyó que a partir de la percepción de la AUH, hubo tanto cambios como continuidades en las representaciones de las madres. En ambos casos, se observó una incidencia positiva por parte de la AUH en las representaciones escolares y en las concepciones sobre las políticas sociales.

En este artículo estudiaremos el vínculo entre las instituciones y el populismo mediante una experiencia concreta: la Asignación Universal por Hijo en la Argentina. Para ello, vamos a dividir el artículo en tres partes. Primero, desarrollaremos un tipo de abordaje metodológico específico: el procedimiento coyuntural recogido por Mouffe para pensar el actual momento populista. Segundo, explicitaremos el debate teórico alrededor del vínculo entre instituciones y populismo y las dificultades que existen para pensar esta relación. Tercero, partiremos del caso concreto de la AUH, con objeto de mostrar sus tres momentos constitutivos: el surgimiento de la demanda popular, su apropiación y tramitación por parte del gobierno y la transformación de la demanda en un derecho. Finalmente, señalaremos, a partir del caso estudiado, cómo la conflictividad rupturista de la institucionalidad populista puede ayudarnos a pensar, transnacionalmente, una lógica alternativa al neoliberalismo. This article aims to study the relationship between institutional policies and populism analyzing the Universal Assignment for Child (AUH) in Argentina. To achieve this objective we will divide the paper in three sections. Firstly, we will think the populist moment in this particular setting as a method of interpretation. Secondly, we will follow the theoretical debates about institutions and populism explaining the difficulty to think this relationship. Third, from the concrete case of AUH, in order to show the constitutive moments: the emergence of popular demand, its appropriation and processing by the government and the transformation of demand into a right. Finally, we will show how the rupturist conflict of populist institutionalism helps us conceive a transnational alternative to global neoliberalism.

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vEn el caso “Tejera, Valeria Fernanda C/ ANSES y otro s/ varios” la Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación resuelve a favor de que una mujer pueda percibir una Asignación Universal por Hijo y una pensión provincial para su hijo menor discapacitado, entendiendo que gozar de ambas no es incompatible. A través del presente comentario se intentará hacer una aproximación del razonamiento de la Corte en una ejemplar decisión que recayó sobre una persona de extrema vulnerabilidad: un niño, con discapacidad y en condiciones de carencias económicas. In the case "Tejera, Valeria Fernanda C / ANSES and other s / several" the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation resolves in favor of a woman being able to receive a Universal Assignment for Child and a provincial pension for her disabled minor child, understanding that to enjoy both is not incompatible. Through this commentary we will try to approximate the reasoning of the Court in an exemplary decision that fell on a person of extreme vulnerability: a child, with a disability and in conditions of economic deprivation.

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The present work will analyze focalized public policie: universal child allowance (AUH for its initials in Spanish) and its impact in terms of empowerment. The theoretical approaches belong to Social Psychology field, theory of social representations, power in philosophy, empowerment concept, social division from an androcentric point of view and public policies designed as Conditional Cash Transfers. The analysis continues with a gender perspective approach on this particular public policy, which focuses on the knowledge of the pre-established roles and functions of women in the design of the AUH program. Its been observed that women have been able to generate changes in their lives although there has not been a visible effect of empowerment processes that facilitate personal development, nor the rupture of womeńs stereotype. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, there is a worldwide increase of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). During the progression of healthy obese to T2D status, there is an influx of immune cells, in particular macrophages, into visceral adipose tissue, accompanied by an increase of inflammatory cytokines, such as, IL6, TNFα and Hp. To get a better insight in the underlying mechanisms, we performed a quantitative LCMS analysis on a modified in vitro assay, combining 3T3L1 adipocytes and activated RAW264.7 macrophages, thus mimicking inflamed adipose tissue. Clinically known proteins, e.g. IL6, TNFα, AdipoQ, complement factor C3, B and D were identified, thus confirming the assay. In addition, we found 54 new proteins that can potentially be used for research into the mechanism of T2D. Comparison of our results to a study on human visceral fat of obese non-diabetic and obese diabetic subjects, indicated that AUH, NAGK, pCYT2, NNMT, STK39 and CSNK2A2 might indeed be linked to insulin resistance in humans. Moreover, the expression of some of these genes was also altered in human blood samples at early or later stages of insulin desensitization. Overall, we conclude that the direct contact co-culture of 3T3L1 adipocytes with activated macrophages could be a mechanistically relevant and partially translational model of inflamed visceral adipose tissue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we estimate the impact on female labor force participation of a massive conditional cash transfer program-Universal Child Allowance, AUH-launched in Argentina in 2009. We identify the intention-to-treat effect by comparing eligible and non-eligible women over time through a diff-in-diff methodology. The results suggest a negative and economically significant effect of the program on female labor force participation. The disincentive to participate is present for married women, while the effect is not statistically significant for unmarried women with children. We also find evidence on the heterogeneity of the effect depending on woman's education, husband's employment status, number and age of children, and whether the woman is the main responsible of domestic chores. The relatively large value of the benefit and the fact that transfers are mostly directed to mothers may explain the sizeable effect of the program on female labor supply. The welfare implications of the results are not clear and deserve further inspection. JEL Classification: H53, I38, J16, J22 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2009 Argentina introduced a large poverty-alleviation program (AUH) that provides monthly cash transfers per child to households without workers in the formal sector. In this paper we study the potential unintended effect of this program on fertility. We apply a difference-in-difference strategy comparing the probability of having a new child among eligible and ineligible mothers both before and after the program inception. The intention to treat estimations suggest a significant positive impact on fertility in households with at least one child (around 2 percentage points), but no significant effect on childless households. Given the short time window since the implementation of the AUH, we are unable to identify whether this positive effect reflects changes in the timing of births or in the equilibrium number of children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze, through micro-simulations, the direct impact of completing the coverage of the current system of family allowances and increasing the amount of the program on social well-being. The results show that the proposal would reduce poverty up to 40 %, indigence up to 64 % and the income gap between the 10th and 1st decile up to 27 %. Moreover, the modification would reduce the relative probability of indigence of those who live in the north, belong to large families or live in single parent households headed by women with children, for whom this probability would be, after the modification simulated, lower than that of their complement. In the regional dimension, it stands out that the direct impact of the reform on poverty would be higher in Greater Buenos Aires, where the majority of the poor population is located. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of the UCA (Universal Child Allowance) in labor informality in Argentina. The results obtained indicate that, controlling for other factors, the UCA does not have a statistically significant effect on labor informality, when either the productive or labor approach are considered. Instead, variables that account for macro-structural factors such as the size of the firm/institution, the level of income y, very specially, secular trends that affect every employed turned out to be the most relevant in the analysis. The methodology to analyze the effect of the program on labor informality was based on the fixed effects estimator, whose main advantage is related with the nature of panel data and is that of controlling by unobserved effects that are fixed over time. The average treatment effect was estimated based on the differences-in-differences estimator, for which the identification of the treatment and control groups resulted central. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The metabolic disease 3-methylglutaconic aciduria type I (MGA1) is characterized by an abnormal organic acid profile in which there is excessive urinary excretion of 3-methylglutaconic acid, 3-methylglutaric acid and 3-hydroxyisovaleric acid. Affected individuals display variable clinical manifestations ranging from mildly delayed speech development to severe psychomotor retardation with neurological handicap. MGA1 is caused by reduced or absent 3-methylglutaconyl-coenzyme A (3-MG-CoA) hydratase activity within the leucine degradation pathway. The human AUH gene has been reported to encode for a bifunctional enzyme with both RNA-binding and enoyl-CoA-hydratase activity. In addition, it was shown that mutations in the AUH gene are linked to MGA1. Here we present kinetic data of the purified gene product of AUH using different CoA-substrates. The best substrates were ( E)-3-MG-CoA ( Vmax = 3.9 U·mg−1, Km = 8.3 µm, kcat = 5.1 s−1) and ( E)-glutaconyl-CoA ( Vmax = 1.1 U·mg−1, Km = 2.4 µm, kcat = 1.4 s−1) giving strong evidence that the AUH gene encodes for the major human 3-MG-CoA hydratase in leucine degradation. Based on these results, a new assay for AUH activity in fibroblast homogenates was developed. The only missense mutation found in MGA1 phenotypes, c.719C>T, leading to the amino acid exchange A240V, produces an enzyme with only 9% of the wild-type 3-MG-CoA hydratase activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inherited diseases are the result of DNA sequence changes. In recessive diseases, the clinical phenotype results from the combined functional effects of variants in both copies of the gene. In some diseases there is often considerable variability of clinical presentation or disease severity, which may be predicted by the genotype. Additional effects may be triggered by environmental factors, as well as genetic modifiers which could be nucleotide polymorphisms in related genes, e.g. maternal ApoE or ABCA1 genotypes which may have an influence on the phenotype of SLOS individuals. Here we report the establishment of genotype variation databases for various rare diseases which provide individual clinical phenotypes associated with genotypes and include data about possible genetic modifiers. These databases aim to be an easy public access to information on rare and private variants with clinical data, which will facilitate the interpretation of genetic variants. The created databases include ACAD8 (isobutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (IBD)), ACADSB (short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (SCAD) deficiency), AUH (3-methylglutaconic aciduria (3-MGCA)), DHCR7 (Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome), HMGCS2 (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA synthase 2 deficiency), HSD17B10 (17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase X deficiency), FKBP14 (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with progressive kyphoscoliosis, myopathy, and hearing loss; EDSKMH) and ROGDI (Kohlschütter-Tönz syndrome). These genes have been selected because of our specific research interests in these rare and metabolic diseases. The aim of the database was to include all identified individuals with variants in these specific genes. Identical genotypes are listed multiple times if they were found in several patients, phenotypic descriptions and biochemical data are included as detailed as possible in view also of validating the proposed pathogenicity of these genotypes. For DHCR7 genetic modifier data (maternal APOE and ABCA1 genotypes) is also included. Databases are available at http://databases.lovd.nl/shared/genes and will be updated based on periodic literature reviews and submitted reports., (Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)