Artículos de Investigación
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Childhood, transitions and well-being in Peru: A literature review
Este breve informe proporciona un amplio contexto para la investigación de Niños del Milenio que se está realizando en Perú mediante la revisión de la literatura académica, los resultados de la investigación, las estadísticas y los documentos oficiales disponibles. Fue realizado por los investigadores cualitativos de Niños del Milenio y, por lo tanto, privilegia las […]
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Starting school: Who is prepared? Young Lives’ research on children’s transition to first grade in Peru
En los últimos años, un número cada vez mayor de publicaciones ha señalado la importancia de las experiencias de los niños en la educación preescolar y en el primer curso de primaria como base para el éxito en los años escolares posteriores. Sin embargo, la mayoría de estas investigaciones se han llevado a cabo en […]
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Gender Wage Gaps in Central American Countries: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Approach
The authors compares gender wage gaps for Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s using the non-parametric matching methodology introduced by Ñopo (2008), which allows an analysis not only of average gaps but also their distributions. While a simple comparison of average wages would suggest small or even negative […]
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La formación de los economistas en América Latina
En el artículo se presenta una visión comparada de la formación de economistas en cinco países de América Latina. Para tal fin, se analizan la currícula, los libros de texto comúnmente utilizados, la dedicación de los profesores, los métodos de enseñanza, y el uso de tecnologías y herramientas computacionales. Así mismo, siguiendo el enfoque de […]
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New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America
The paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country heterogeneity. The unexplained pay gap is higher among older, informal and self-employed workers and […]
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Happiness and Beliefs in Criminal Environments
The paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities (including drug trafficking and corruption) around the world. The paper then documents a negative (positive) correlation between measures of criminal activity and happiness and measures of positive (negative) emotions. The paper also studies the correlation between ideological beliefs […]
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Gender and Racial Wage Gaps in Brazil 1996-2006: Evidence Using a Matching Comparisons Approach
The authors explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition […]
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Do Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust? Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities
The authors argues that welfare programs are linked with the destruction of social capital, as measured by interpersonal trust in laboratory games. The paper employs experimental data for representative samples of individuals in four Latin American capital cities (Bogota, Lima, Montevideo, and San Jose), finding that participation in welfare programs damage trust. The result is […]
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The Gender Wage Gap in Peru 1986-2000: Evidence from a Matching Comparisons Approach
Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), the paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru from 1986 to 2000. This methodology has two advantages. First, it recognizes that the supports of observable characteristics distributions differ substantially. Second, it provides deeper insights regarding the distribution of the unexplained gender differences in earnings. […]
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Quality of life in urban neighborhoods in Metropolitan Lima, Peru
Este trabajo presenta los resultados de la estimación de un índice de calidad de vida centrado en tres dimensiones: factores individuales, factores urbanos y sociedad civil. El estudio se basó principalmente en información recogida mediante una encuesta aplicada en tres distritos de Lima: La Victoria, Los Olivos y Villa El Salvador. Estos distritos son relativamente […]
