Working paper
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Quality of life in urban neighborhoods in Metropolitan Lima, Peru
This paper presents the results of the estimations of a quality of life (QoL) index focusing on three dimensions: individual factors, urban factors, and civil society.
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Titling, credit constraints, and rental markets in rural Peru: exploring channels and conditioned impacts
This paper constructs a baseline and pursues an overall impact evaluation of the PETT (Programa Especial de Titulación de Tierras), an ambitious rural titling program created in Peru in 1992.
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Asistencia docente y rendimiento escolar: el caso del Programa META
Impacto y efecto del programa de incentivos META implementado por el Ministerio de Educación para incrementar la asistencia diaria y la permanencia en clase de los docentes en algunas zonas rurales del Perú.
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Business training for microfinance clients: how it matters and for whom?
We mesure the impact of a business training program for female microentrepreneur clients of a group banking program in Peru. Using the credit with education model, we assigned clients randomly to either treatment or control groups.
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Las evaluaciones educativas que América Latina necesita
El punto de vista de los miembros del actual Comité Gestor del GTEE sobre los propósitos y usos de las evaluaciones estandarizadas de aprendizajes y/o logros educativos en gran escala, en América Latina y el Caribe.
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Young Lives: Peru Round 2 Survey
The initial findings from the second round of data collection in Peru between late 2006 and early 2007. It provides a broad outline of key child poverty indicators, as well as changes that have taken place since the first round of research in 2002.
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An Assessment of the Young Lives Sampling Approach in Peru
The objectives of this report are to describe the first round sample and the sampling design of Young Lives in Peru, and to derive appropriate sampling weights needed to use the data.
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The Educational Gender Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean
The paper analyzes the evolution of gender differences in school attendance and attainment in Latin America and the Caribbean, for both adults who left the educational system and children in school. For individuals 21 years old and above the paper uses a cohort analysis of school attainment. The results indicate that the schooling gap has […]
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Stated Social Behavior and Revealed Actions: Evidence from Six Latin American Countries Using Representative Samples
The paper explores the link between what people say they prefer to do and what they actually do. Using data from an experimental project exploring trust and pro-sociality for representative samples of individuals in six Latin American capital cities, the paper links the results of these experiments with the responses obtained from representative surveys to […]
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Stated Social Behavior and Revealed Actions: Evidence from 6 Latin American Countries Using Representative Samples
The paper explores the link between what people say they prefer to do and what they actually do. Using data from an experimental project exploring trust and pro-sociality for representative samples of individuals in six Latin American capital cities, the paper links the results of these experiments with the responses obtained from representative surveys to […]
