Working paper
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The power of believing you can get smarter the impact of a growth-mindset intervention on academic achievement in Peru
This paper evaluates the academic impact of a growth-mindset intervention on students starting the secondary level in public schools in urban Peru. ¡Expande tu Mente! is a 90-minute school session aimed at instilling the notion that a person’s own intelligence is malleable. Students in schools randomly assigned to treatment showed a small improvement in math test scores and […]
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The impact of social ties and third-party enforcement on collective action and growth: micro evidence from Peru
Exploiting a unique empirical setting, 1,000 vendors in 90 traditional food markets in Lima, researchers document that historic social ties among market founders are associated, decades later, with stricter formal (third party) enforcement of market rules, more collective action, and the greater resilience of market sales to the entry of modern supermarkets. Markets with stronger […]
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Factores asociados a la violencia de pareja contra mujeres: un enfoque departamental desde los patrones de victimización (ENDES 2008-2018)
In Peru, violence against women is a problem of high and persistent prevalence. Despite this, little has been studied in the country and precisely due to two central limitations. On the one hand, research has used aggregated measures contributing to the image of a homogeneous profile’s victim that do not represent the subgroups of women […]
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Brechas que perduran: una radiografía de la exclusión social en Perú
Peru achieved many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) before the 2015 deadline, a sign of the great economic and social advances of recent decades. However, the high levels of heterogeneity that persist in the development indicators show the high inequalities in the country, particularly in relation to traditionally excluded groups such as women, indigenous […]
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Experiencias de convivencia, matrimonio y maternidad/paternidad en adolescentes y jóvenes peruanos
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Perú: Informe de progreso de políticas de primera infancia
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Hybrid Institutions Institutionalizing Practices in the Context of Extractive Expansion
States face the challenge of developing institutions to govern the activities of social actors when an area under their control becomes the target of increased extractive activities. National and local public regulations safeguarding the environment, the assignment of extractive rights to individuals or companies, and handling of ensuing conflicts are developed in an institutional gray […]
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Infraestructura rural mínima para prosperar
This paper aims to discuss the main elements of a proposal for minimum or indispensable coverage of rural infrastructure to contribute to the prosperity of rural households in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Peru’s JUNTOS cash conditional transfer program: geographic targeting (2005-2017)
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have become an important anti-poverty policy globally in recent decades by aiming to alleviate poverty through financial incentives tied directly to human capital investments (namely primary and secondary schooling and maternal and child health). In Peru, the CCT program JUNTOS targeting poor families was established in 2005. By 2017, it has […]
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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 international literature shows that teenage pregnancy is associated to negative results for the mother in terms of educational achievement and access to the labour market. However, there is limited evidence about this for the Peruvian case. Within this context, this study has three objectives. First, document the prevalence of teenage pregnancy in Peru between […]
