Working paper
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Places for place-based policies
We propose a possible means of making choosing places for place-based policies, using the examples of Canada, Chile and Peru.
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Para la mejora efectiva de la educación básica en las zonas rurales del Perú: revisión de los principales programas educativos
Se analizan distintos modelos exitosos de intervención sobre escuelas rurales: AprenDes, PROMEB, Construyendo Escuelas Exitosas, Fe y Alegría.
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Long-term implications of under-nutrition on psychosocial competencies: evidence from four developing countries
Bajo la motivación de sugerencias de la literatura médica y del modelo de formación de habilidades propuesto por Cunha y Heckman (2007, 2008), este paper emplea información longitudinal de niños en etapa de crecimiento de países en desarrollo para estudiar el impacto de la nutrición temprana en el desarrollo de estas habilidades.
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Mejora efectiva de la educación básica en las zonas rurales del Perú
The different models of intervention in rural schools analyzed in this mimeo: AprenDes, PROMEB, Building Successful Schools, Fe y Alegría, have given rise to experiences considered successful not only because they have fully complied with the most substantive of their main objectives, but also because of a fact of great political relevance: in four years […]
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Teachers’ Salaries in Latin America: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
The paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, attributed to observable socio-demographic and job characteristics, are assessed using a matching methodology (Ñopo, 2008). Teachers’ underpayment is found to be stronger than what has been previously reported […]
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Gender Earnings Gaps in the World
The paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job characteristics. These characteristics are used to match males and females such that gender earnings disparities are computed only among individuals with the same characteristics, as in Ñopo (2008). After […]
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Contracting the road to development: early impacts of a rural roads program
The impacts of the Peruvian rural roads program characterized by the contracting of private local firms for the rehabilitation and maint
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Formando microempresarias: impacto de la capacitación empresarial en las instituciones de microfinanzas y sus socias
Medición del impacto marginal de un componente de capacitación en gestión empresarial en un programa de servicios financieros que atiende a mujeres microempresarias peruanas vía la metodología de bancos comunales.
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De quinto de primaria al fin de la secundaria en seis años: un estudio longitudinal en Puno
This study reports the results of a longitudinal design in which 304 students from urban and rural areas of Puno were followed. The students included were in fifth grade of primary school in 2000 and were due to be in fifth grade of secondary school (the end of basic education) in 2006, when they were […]
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Infancia, transiciones y bienestar en el Perú: una revisión bibliográfica
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