Publications of Employment, productivity and innovation
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Los retornos de las habilidades cognitivas y socioemocionales en el Perú
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Impact Evaluation of the Job Youth Training Program Projoven
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Natural resources, redistribution and human capital formation
How do resource booms affect human capital accumulation? The authors exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodity boom across local governments in Peru to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation. The authors explore the effect of both mining production and tax revenues on test scores, finding a substantial and […]
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Crecimiento y segmentación en el Perú
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Participatory Democracy and Effective Policy: Is There a Link? Evidence from Rural Peru
We examine the relationship between participatory democratic institutions and effective agricultural policy in rural Peruvian municipalities, using a unique quantitative dataset of 100 Peruvian municipalities at two points in time, allowing us to examine (a) bottom-up, grassroots participatory governance institutions, and (b) Peru’s top-down participatory budgeting reform implemented in all Peruvian sub-national governments in the […]
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Hacia un sistema de formación continua de la fuerza laboral en el Perú
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¿Qué sabemos sobre los programas y políticas de primer empleo en América Latina?
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Apego al terruño: La geografía de los mercados laborales de docentes
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El proceso de certificación del pisco peruano: una propuesta de medición de sus principales efectos
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Business training plus for female entrepreneurship? Short and medium-term experimental evidence from Peru
With millions of women around the developing world thrown into self-employment but with low productivity, increasing the profitability of their businesses is highly relevant for poverty reduction and gender equity. This study evaluates the impacts of a BDS program serving female microentrepreneurs in Lima using an experimental design, that included two treatment groups: One received […]
