Publications of Natural resources, redistribution and human capital formation
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Natural resources, redistribution and human capital formation
How do resource booms affect human capital accumulation? The authors exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodity boom across local governments in Peru to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation. The authors explore the effect of both mining production and tax revenues on test scores, finding a substantial and […]
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Metodología cuantitativa de la evaluación del impacto
The quantitative component of this study assesses the initial impact of the Haku Wiñay project in a number of areas: the quality of life in the household —healthy practices, food security, solid waste management, among others—, the family production system —agricultural and forestry production technologies, small animal management, among others—, the generation of autonomous income […]
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Caracterizando la intervención
The chapter describes the design of the Haku Wiñay project according to the current guidelines of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion and shows its deployment in the national territory between 2012 and 2014, as well as the projection for the coming years.
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Impactos del proyecto desde una aproximación cuantitativa
This chapter presents the results of the quantitative impact assessment of the Haku Wiñay project on the living conditions of households that have also been users of the Juntos programme. As mentioned in Chapter 2, the project seeks to influence various spheres of household life, and it is to be expected that in some of […]
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Combinando programas sociales con otras intervenciones
The authors present a discussion on the international experience of combining social programmes with productive interventions from a historical perspective. This chapter initiates reflection on the impact of the Haku Wiñay project in environments intervened by the Juntos programme, as it identifies consensus and shared challenges, based on national and international experience, in the search […]
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La privatización por defecto y el surgimiento de las escuelas privadas de bajo costo en el Perú. ¿Cuáles son sus consecuencias?
Since the 1990s, when for-profit investment in education was liberalized, Perú has seen a constant growth in the supply and demand of private education services. This tendency has deepened in the last decade in a context of economic growth that has allowed many families to migrate to the private sector. The growth of the private […]
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Evaluación de diseño e implementación del bono de incentivo al desempeño escolar del Ministerio de Educación
The objective of this document is to carry out a systematic and objective assessment of the design and implementation of the school performance incentive bonus (BDE) granted in its first year of implementation (2014). Based on this analysis, the aim is to determine whether the proposed strategy and the processes through which it is expected […]
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Effects of fertility on women’s working status
As in other developing countries, Peru’s demographic transition is well underway. Concurrently, women’s labor market participation and employment rates have substantially increased. In this paper the authors estimate the causal effect that the reduction in fertility rates has on women’s employment using instrumental variables already tested in developed countries—twins in the first birth and the […]
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De la Amazonía su palma. Aportes a la gestión territorial en la región Loreto
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