Working paper
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Long-Term Implications of Under-Nutrition on Psychosocial Competencies: Evidence from Four Developing Countries
Bajo la motivación de sugerencias de la literatura médica y del modelo de formación de habilidades propuesto por Cunha y Heckman (2007, 2008), este paper emplea información longitudinal de niños en etapa de crecimiento de países en desarrollo para estudiar el impacto de la nutrición temprana en el desarrollo de estas habilidades.
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Mejora efectiva de la educación básica en las zonas rurales del Perú
Se analizan distintos modelos exitosos de intervención sobre escuelas rurales: AprenDes, PROMEB, Construyendo Escuelas Exitosas, Fe y Alegría.
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Teachers’ Salaries in Latin America: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
The paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, attributed to observable socio-demographic and job characteristics, are assessed using a matching methodology (Ñopo, 2008). Teachers’ underpayment is found to be stronger than what has been previously reported […]
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Gender Earnings Gaps in the World
The paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job characteristics. These characteristics are used to match males and females such that gender earnings disparities are computed only among individuals with the same characteristics, as in Ñopo (2008). After […]
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Contracting the road to development: early impacts of a rural roads program
The impacts of the Peruvian rural roads program characterized by the contracting of private local firms for the rehabilitation and maint
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Formando microempresarias: impacto de la capacitación empresarial en las instituciones de microfinanzas y sus socias
Medición del impacto marginal de un componente de capacitación en gestión empresarial en un programa de servicios financieros que atiende a mujeres microempresarias peruanas vía la metodología de bancos comunales.
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De quinto de primaria al fin de la secundaria en seis años: un estudio longitudinal en Puno
El estudio reporta los resultados de un diseño longitudinal en el que se siguió a 304 estudiantes de zonas urbanas y rurales de Puno en quinto grado de primaria en el 2000 y en quinto de secundaria en el 2006.
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Infancia, transiciones y bienestar en el Perú: una revisión bibliográfica
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Psychosocial Status and Cognitive Achievement in Peru
This paper presents the results of a quantitative analysis that measured the relationship between psychosocial status at the age of 8, and the development of cognitive skills four years later.
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Early nutrition and later cognitive achievement in developing countries
This study uses longitudinal data from 8,000 children in four developing countries (Young Lives Survey) to explore the linkages between nutritional status and later cognitive achievement on preschool children.
