Journal
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Exploring the association between segregation and physical intimate partner violence in Lima, Peru: the mediating role of gender norms and social capital
Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been globally recognized as a major public health problem. A growing body of evidence has identified a significant relationship between living in a neighborhood of concentrated disadvantage and experiencing IPV. Considering the increasing rates of poverty and segregation registered in Latin American cities, research on the effects of segregation on […]
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Do children benefit from internet access? Experimental evidence from Peru
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. The authors compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received laptops without internet. Researchers find […]
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Relación entre embarazo adolescente y maternidad adolescente y resultados educativos y laborales: una aproximación a partir de datos de la ENDES
The present study has three objectives. First, to document the prevalence of teenage pregnancy at the national level, by area of residence, natural region and by department between 2012 and 2017. Second, to measure the association between teenage motherhood and educational and labour outcomes in the short term (between the ages of 15 and 19) […]
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A new deal to finance LATAM education
Education learning outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LATAM) are still insufficient and unequally distributed. Several factors are behind this situation, many of which relate to education funding: low absolute expenditure per student; increasing gaps in spending levels between developed and developing countries; unequal distribution of key education inputs; inefficient use of pedagogical resources and […]
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Smarter through social protection? Evaluating the impact of Ethiopia’s safety-net on child cognitive abilities
Ethiopia’s productive safety net is the second largest Social Protection Program in sub-Saharan Africa and has been rolled out to almost 10 million beneficiaries since 2005; its effects are therefore of general interest. We provide the first estimates of its impact on children’s cognitive abilities. To identify impacts of this program, we exploit four rounds […]
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Urbanization Patterns, Information Diffusion, and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay
Researchers use a field experiment to evaluate the impact of two informational get-out-the-vote campaigns to boost female electoral participation in rural areas of Paraguay. They find that public rallies had a small and insignificant effect either on registration or voter turnout in the 2013 presidential elections. Households that received door-to-door canvassing treatment were 4.6 percentage points more likely […]
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Market- and government-based higher education reforms in Latin America: the cases of Peru and Ecuador, 2008–2016
National higher education systems have undergone a series of transformations in recent decades. Since the 1980s, regulatory systems governing higher education have witnessed a number of changes. In particular, there has been a shift away from a model of state control, to one of state oversight, in which the state designs a framework of rules […]
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Health impacts of a public-private partnership rural roads maintenance programme
The authors provide evidence of health impacts of a public-private rural roads maintenance programme in Peru, which is characterized by a contracting mechanism that employs small local firms. Using a difference‐in‐differences approach, they find that improved roads connectivity leads to positive health externalities.
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La secundaria rural: una evaluación de sus formas de atención diversificada
At the request of the Ministry of Education, the FORGE project evaluated three forms of diversified care in Rural Secondary Education with the aim of analysing whether their design was relevant to the objectives set and to what extent their implementation responded to what was planned. This article presents the results of this evaluation.
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Mining Formalization at the Margins of the State: Small‐scale Miners and State Governance in the Peruvian Amazon
This article analyses the Peruvian government’s quest to formalize small‐scale mining in the Amazon as a political process which shows how state governance problems are reproduced in the margins of the state. It asks why the central state is unable to govern mining activities in the Madre de Dios region, and examines how small‐scale miners […]
