Projects
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Typology of provincial and district municipalities of Peru
The purpose of the study is to create a multidimensional territorial typology for the design of policies that face two main challenges: (i) identify the key thematic dimensions for the analysis and the most relevant variables to approximate them, and (ii) the aggregation methods of the information available for the definition of categories that are useful for […]
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Designing educational interventions for elementary education
This project aims to design an educational intervention or set of interventions, based on available evidence, that have potential to generate a positive impact on public elementary schools students at a relatively low cost. It is expected that these interventions will be implemented and evaluated later in a group of schools.
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Adjusting parameters contained in Altman Model Z to Peru’s economic reality
The use of predictive models of firms with financial issues is useful as indirect indicators of the potential risk of tax noncompliance since companies with such issues may be encouraged to use evasion or avoidance mechanisms in order to finance themselves with taxes. One such model is Edward Altman’s Model Z undertake from some indicators drawn […]
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Adapting parameters contained in the Model Z of Altman to the reality of the Peruvian economy
The use of predictive models of firms with financial problems is useful as indirect indicators of the potential risk of tax non-compliance, since firms with such problems may be encouraged to use evasion or circumvention mechanisms in order to finance themselves with taxes. One of these models is the Model Z of Edward Altman built […]
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Institutions and competitiveness: the case of Lima’s supply markets
This study aims to explain the reasons why traditional markets retain the leading role in retail food in Lima, despite the entry of supermarkets in the surrounding areas. Specifically, three main objectives are sought: First, to describe the expansion of supermarkets in Metropolitan Lima, as well as to study the main factors that explain or […]
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Does the school reproduce inequalities? Segregation between classrooms
Most studies have focused on explaining the gaps in educational outcomes addressing differences between schools. However, little has been done to observe the differences within the same school, while the empirical evidence shows that the differences still persist there. This study aims to study how the practice carried out by some schools to separate students between classrooms based […]
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Forest governance and sustainability in the Amazon: progress and policy challenges in Peru
The purpose of this study is to systematize the existing evidence on the progress and challenges in forest governance within the framework of the institutional reform of the forestry sector in Peru. Two decades after the liberalization of factor markets, there are still many gaps in information about whether or not the new property rights regime has promoted […]
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Institutions and competitiveness: the case of Lima’s wholesale markets
This study aims to analyze the reasons why traditional wholesale markets retain a leading role in the food retail trade in Lima, in spite of the entry of supermarkets in the surrounding areas. Specifically, three main objectives are sought: i. To describe the expansion of wholesale markets in Metropolitan Lima, as well as to analyze the […]
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Prices, taxes and tobacco consumption in Peru
This study aims to estimate the price elasticity of the cigarette consumption in Peru, with special emphasis on the analysis of its heterogeneity by gender and age and socio-economical level. It is proposed to use the databases of the surveys applied by DEVIDA to high school students and the population in general; those which have not previously […]
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Final evaluation of the Preschool Improvement Program in Ayacucho, Huancavelica and Huanuco
The impact evaluation of the Preschool Improvement Program (Programa de Mejoramiento de la Educación Inicial) includes data collection and analysis using data gathered and analyzed previously in the baseline and intermediate evaluation to determine the impact of the program on preschool students achievement. Data collection and analysis strategy allows to undertake a quasi-experimental final impact evaluation of the program, according to […]
