Artículos de Investigación
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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
El estudio reporta los resultados de un diseño longitudinal en el que se siguió a 304 estudiantes de zonas urbanas y rurales de Puno en quinto grado de primaria en el 2000 y en quinto de secundaria en el 2006.
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Infancia, transiciones y bienestar en el Perú: una revisión bibliográfica
Este documento proporciona un marco de referencia para la investigación cualitativa que se lleva a cabo en Perú, a través de la revisión de literatura académica, resultados de investigación, información estadística y documentos oficiales disponibles. Fue desarrollado por las investigadoras cualitativas de Niños del Milenio, por lo cual se privilegiaron las principales áreas que serían […]
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Psychosocial Status and Cognitive Achievement in Peru
This paper presents the results of a quantitative analysis that measured the relationship between psychosocial status at the age of 8, and the development of cognitive skills four years later.
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Early nutrition and later cognitive achievement in developing countries
This study uses longitudinal data from 8,000 children in four developing countries (Young Lives Survey) to explore the linkages between nutritional status and later cognitive achievement on preschool children.
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Evolution of Gender Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to «New Century, Old Disparities»
The paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2009) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During this span the overall gender earnings gaps dropped about 7 percentage points, while the unexplained […]
