Research Progress Paper
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Adaptation to climate change in the tropical mountains? Effects of intraseasonal climate variability on crop diversification strategies in the Peruvian Andes
Crop diversification, selection of tolerant crops, and intercropping are some of the strategies that Andean farmers, as well as farmers in other mountain regions, have historically used to cope with climate-related risks and take advantage of heterogeneous agricultural land (with plots located at different altitudes, facing different environmental conditions). This study analyzes the role of […]
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The impact of intimate partner violence on child development in Peru
Resarchers used longitudinal data from a cohort of Peruvian children (n=1,720) tracked starting at the age of 1 year old to test the association between alcohol-induced physical IPV (intimate partner violence) against the mother during the child’s first two years of life, and the child’s cognitive, socio-emotional and schooling outcomes between the ages of 5 […]
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Interacción social y crimen: un análisis del caso peruano a nivel provincial
El presente estudio pretende documentar si la correlación entre las decisiones personales, definida como “interacción social”, contribuye a generar un mayor entendimiento acerca del fenómeno del crimen y su varianza.
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Los efectos desprotectores de la protección del empleo: el impacto de la reforma del contrato laboral del 2001
Cuatro de cada cinco relaciones laborales en el sector formal de la economía peruana están amparadas en contratos temporales. Esta proporción es groseramente superior a la de cualquier país de la OECD y también bastante mayor a la de cualquiera de los países de nuestra región latinoamericana. El objeto de este estudio es elucidar el rol […]
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How do Latin American migrants in the U.S. stand on schooling premium? What does it reveal about education quality in their home countries?
Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world’s population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the U.S. (Bratsberg and Terrell 2002). […]
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The value of redistribution: natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions
We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. Combining test scores from over two million students and district-level administrative data on mining production and the redistribution of mining taxes to local governments, we […]
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Cambios en la actividad agropecuaria en un contexto de cambio climático y estrés hídrico. El caso de las cuencas de Ica y Pampas
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Más que una guardería. El tránsito de Wawa Wasi a Cuna Más en Jicamarca
El estudio buscó comprender problemas de gestión de recursos humanos del Programa Nacional Cuna Más –sucesor del Programa Nacional Wawa Wasi– para implementar su propuesta de aprendizaje infantil temprano a las/os niños que acudían, en 2014, al servicio de cuidado diurno de Cuna Más en la comunidad campesina de Jicamarca, zona pobre periurbana (provincia de […]
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Promoting prenatal health care in poor rural areas through conditional cash transfers: evidence from JUNTOS in Peru
The authors assess the effects of JUNTOS, a conditional cash transfer program targeted to poor rural households in Peru, on the utilization of prenatal health care by women exposed to the program during their most recent pregnancy. They implement a difference-in-differences estimation technique to uncover the effects of JUNTOS on the utilization of prenatal health […]
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¿Saliendo del agro? Empleo no agropecuario, conectividad y dinamismo rural en el Perú (1994-2012)
El estudio analiza las condiciones económicas y geográficas que determinan la relación entre la dotación de activos públicos en conectividad rural (caminos y telecomunicaciones) y los cambios observados en el empleo no agropecuario que ha caracterizado al dinamismo rural de las últimas dos décadas. Se analiza el impacto de cuatro condiciones: variables de contexto regional […]
