Journal
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Cohort Profile: The Young Lives Study
The article gives a useful overview of Young Lives research design and methods. It covers: the aims and scope of the study, sampling, the different survey rounds, attrition, key findings and publications, and how to access the data.
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Transaction Costs, Institutional Arrangements and Inequality Outcomes: Potato Marketing by Small Producers in Rural Peru
We explore the distributional effects of lowering transaction costs to allow access to improved market opportunities for small farmers in the Peruvian Highlands.
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The changing role of international cooperation in developing countries (as they develop): A case study of skills development policies in Peru.
A focus on the changes in the relationship between international cooperation and local actors in the skills development field in Peru as the country strengthened its financial position in the last two decades allows us to examine the role of the economic factor in these changes.
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Descentralización funcional y presupuestal de la educación pública en el Perú: un balance de avances y desafíos
Un diagnóstico de la gestión presupuestal de la educación pública en un contexto de descentralización política que ha implicado la transferencia de competencias y funciones educativas a los gobiernos subnacionales.
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Gender earning gaps around the world: a study of 64 countries
The purpose of this paper is to analyze gender disparities in labor earnings for a comprehensive set of 64 countries. Design/methodology/approach – Using the methodological approach proposed by Ñopo, socio-demographic characteristics are used to match males and females such that gender earnings disparities are computed only among individuals with the same observable characteristics. Findings – […]
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Detecting Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring Through Monitoring Intermediation Services: The Case of Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima, Peru
Inspired by audit studies methodology, the authors monitored a job intermediation service in Peru to detect gender and racial discrimination in hiring. The authors capture individual racial information using the approach of Ñopo, Saavedra, and Torero (2007), enabling a richer exploration of racial differences. Overall, the study finds discriminatory treatment in hiring only when comparing groups […]
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Impacto del programa Juntos sobre nutrición temprana
En este trabajo se explora el impacto del programa de transferencias condicionadas Juntos sobre el estado nutricional de niños menores de 5 años.
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PDAs in socio-economic surveys: instrument bias, surveyor bias or both?
The study shows that data collected through personal digital assistants (PDAs) has a higher level of agreement when compared to paper-based responses.
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¿Qué sabemos sobre los programas de transferencias condicionadas? Lecciones de la experiencia
Se discute los resultados por las transferencias monetarias condicionadas a la población en pobreza durante los últimos años en indicadores de capital humano de países de América Latina y analizan las implicancias de estos hallazgos.
