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Evaluating interventions to reduce maternal mortality: evidence from Peru’s PARSalud programme
This paper evaluates the impact of an intervention oriented to reduce maternal mortality in Peru. The paper takes advantage of both spatial and temporal variation in the implementation of the programme to identify its effects. Results suggest a positive impact of the training provided by the programme on the number of deliveries, deliveries using oxytocin, […]
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Niveles de acoplamiento y desacoplamiento en la relación familia-escuela en contextos rurales: el caso de una muestra de familias de Quispicanchis, Cusco
La relación entre dinámicas familiares y escolaridad, distinguiendo entre la participación de los padres en actividades vinculadas a la escuela y los procesos de asignación de tiempo familiar a actividades educativas.
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La Formación de los Economistas en America Latina
The paper presents a comparative view of the training of economists in Latin America, analyzing curricula, commonly utilized textbooks, professors’ time-commitments, teaching methods, and the use of technologies and computational tools. Also, following the approach of Colander (2005), the paper presents the results of a survey of Economics students, creating a socioeconomic profile of them […]
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To What Extent Do Latin Americans Trust, Reciprocate, and Cooperate?: Evidence from Experiments in Six Latin American Countries
The paper explores the extent to which individuals trust, reciprocate, cooperate, and pool risk. The authors use a battery of field experiments containing the trust game, the voluntary contribution mechanism, and the risk-pooling game, which we apply in six capital cities in Latin America. A salient feature of the paper is that the data is […]
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The homogenization effect of land titling on investment incentives: evidence from Peru
We explored this relationship for a sample of Peruvian farmers who were part of a state-led land titling programme that shared the aforementioned characteristics.
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La agricultura peruana frente al TLC: ¿oportunidad o maldición?
Este resumen del estudio ganador el concurso del CIES: “La agricultura peruana frente al TLC: ¿oportunidad o maldición?”, busca estimar el impacto del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con los EE.UU. sobre el sector agropecuario peruano. Sus simulaciones indican que en el corto plazo cabría esperar un impacto agregado positivo del TLC de entre US$ […]
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Oportunidades de aprendizaje y rendimiento escolar en Matemática y Lenguaje: resumen de tres estudios en Perú
This study synthesises three studies on the relationship between opportunities to learn (ODA for its acronym in Spanish) and school performance in public schools in Peru. Learning opportunities in these studies were operationally defined on the basis of curricular coverage, cognitive demand, student feedback and correct exercises. These were estimated from the exercises solved in […]
