Publications
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Productividad y apertura comercial en el Perú
We study the relationship between productivity and trade openness in Peru. We find that firms that participate in international trade, either as exporters and/or importers, have systematically higher productivity compared to those that only produce for the domestic market. Free trade agreements, on average, generate a positive productivity gap, and firms that export to the […]
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Productividad sectorial en el Perú: un análisis a nivel de firmas
This paper estimates the production function at the firm level of the Peruvian economy, which allows us to characterise the productivity of the firm through its total factor productivity and its labour productivity. The data correspond to all formal firms that reported data between 2002 and 2011. This information allows us to correct for the […]
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Los retornos de las habilidades cognitivas y socioemocionales en el Perú
Sorry, this entry is only available in Español.
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Impacts of the Peruvian conditional cash transfer program on women empowerment: a quantitative and qualitative approach
This study aims to identify the effects of the conditional cash transfer program of Peru, Juntos, on women’s empowerment. Although the program does not envisage women’s welfare as an objective per se, women play a key role as they are the main recipients of the cash transfer and are responsible for compliance with the program’s conditions and thus […]
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Combinando protección social con generación de oportunidades económicas: una evaluación de los avances del programa Haku Wiñay
The aim of this volume is to provide rigorous evidence of the initial impacts of the Mi Chacra Emprendedora-Haku Wiñay project in a representative sample of its areas of intervention in the rural highlands. The first chapter of the book situates the project within the framework of interventions that combine productive development programmes with social […]
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Impact Evaluation of the Job Youth Training Program Projoven
Sorry, this entry is only available in Español.
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El gasto público en infancia y niñez en América Latina y el Caribe ¿Cuánto y cuán efectivo?
The objective of the study is to analyse the levels, evolution, composition and quality of public social spending on children in Latin America and the Caribbean. To this, a sample of eight countries is analysed: Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru.
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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.
