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Hacia una nueva política de vivienda en el Perú: problemas y posibilidades
En las siguientes páginas se describe el problema general de la producción de vivienda en el Perú, y se plantean, de manera muy concreta y sucinta, varias posibles medidas de política que pueden ayudar a incrementar substantivamente la producción de vivienda—especialmente vivienda de interés social (VIS)—en el corto y mediano plazo.
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A Drop of Love? Rainfall Shocks and Spousal Abuse: Evidence from Rural Peru
The authors investigate whether the exposure to rainfall shocks affects the experience of physical intimate partner violence by women in rural areas of the Peruvian Andes. Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys over the period 2005-2014, they track changes in women’s experience of physical IPV following the exposure to rainfall shocks during the […]
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El oro y la escuela: caída de precios del oro y demanda educativa en Madre de Dios
La Maldición de Recursos Naturales (MRN) hace referencia a que los países con abundancia de recursos naturales tienden a tener peores indicadores de desarrollo y gobernanza en comparación a aquellos que tienen menor cantidad de recursos (Humphreys et al 2007). El concepto se ha complejizado con los años, pasando de hablar de una maldición a […]
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(Un)Conditional Love in the Time of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Effect of the Peruvian JUNTOS Program on Spousal Abuse
Cash Transfer programs often target women as the recipient of the money. Unintentionally, this flow of unearned income may reduce spousal abuse. Researchers investigate this possibility by assessing the Peruvian JUNTOS program. They exploit the staggered timing in the rollout of the program across municipalities along with its eligibility rule for determining participation to perform a difference-in-differences […]
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Impacto de la carrera pública magisterial sobre rendimiento académico y competencias socioemocionales de estudiantes
La educación en el Perú llega a muchos, pero sirve a pocos. Esta frase que da título al libro de Beltrán y Seinfeld (2013), expresa en unas pocas palabras la problemática de la educación en el Perú: los niños, niñas y adolescentes acceden a un servicio educativo, pero a uno de baja calidad (Banco Mundial, […]
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Reshaping the gender gap in child time use: unintended effects of a program expanding economic opportunities in the Peruvian Andes
In the last decades, a variety of public policies and programs across the developing world have helped narrow the historical gender gap in access to education and employment. Yet, the gender gap in higher education, labor income and power relations within families -and the rural society in general- is still substantial in most developing countries. […]
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Pereza fiscal en gobiernos locales: el efecto del canon sobre la recaudación
The aim of this article is to examine if mining royalties caused a fiscal laziness effect in Peruvian local governments through lower levels of tax revenue and if this result varies when a woman is on charge of the municipality. We use administrative data from every municipality for the period 2009-2018, total production and international […]
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Habilidades, formación para el trabajo y subempleo juvenil: un enfoque de ciclo de vida
This study uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives study to establish which are the most important aspects that predict access to job formation and the labour market at age 22. Results highlight the role of cognitive skills, socio-emotional competencies, and the socio-economic level of the household to explain access to higher education institutions and […]
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Auge agroexportador en el Perú: un análisis de sobrevivencia de productos y empresas
This study presents a survival analysis for products and firms in the agroexport boom of Peru in the last three decades. The main goal is to identify explanatory factors which can be useful for public policies. The findings support strategies of scaling up and diversifying export markets, with a promotion role for the State in […]
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Communities and Spontaneous Urban Planning: A Toolkit for Urban Expansion. Project Summary
Most urbanization processes around developing countries are happening either by rural-urban migration, as it happened in Lima 25 years ago, or by high paced vegetative population growth among second and third-generation migrants, as it is happening now in Lima—and either form exerts pressure on relatively weak public institutions. State-sponsored urban planning is often absent, so […]
