Artículos de Revista
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Health Impacts of a Public–Private Partnership Rural Roads Maintenance Programme
Los autores presentan evidencia del impacto en la salud de un programa público-privado de mantenimiento de caminos rurales en el Perú, que se caracteriza por un mecanismo de contratación que emplea pequeñas empresas locales. Utilizando un enfoque de diferencias en diferencias, encuentran que la conectividad mejorada en los caminos conduce a externalidades de salud positivas.
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Access to Higher Education of Afro-Peruvians: Disentangling the Influence of Skin Color and Social Origins in the Peruvian Stratification System
A pesar de los esfuerzos recientes del gobierno peruano para rectificar siglos de injusticias contra los afroperuanos, no se conoce mucho sobre la influencia relativa de la discriminación y los orígenes sociales en el acceso de esta población a la educación superior. Utilizando datos del Estudio Especializado de la Población Afroperuano del año 2014 y […]
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Assessing the impacts of a peer-to-peer training programme for women in Peru
This article reports on research that aimed to assess the economic and social impacts of a peer-to-peer training programme targeted to women in Peru, looking at overall and differentiated impacts according to design features, on a sample of 300 women in participant and non-participant communities. The study found significant positive impacts on women’s time devoted […]
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Psychosocial status and cognitive achievement in Peru
This paper assesses the importance of psychosocial status in the accumulation of cognitive skills during the transition from mid to late childhood. The authors use longitudinal data from a cohort of 700 Peruvian children drawn from a very rich dataset, the Young Lives Survey, to test the impact of children’s perception of respect at the age of […]
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Accessing Higher Education in Developing Countries: Panel Data Analysis from India, Peru, and Vietnam
Researchers use unique individual-level panel data from India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru, and Vietnam on a cohort of individuals surveyed from the age of 8 years to 19 years to study factors affecting enrolment in higher education in these middle-income countries. We document (a) that similar to nationally representative data, the proportion having accessed higher education at this […]
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Diálogos Ciudadanos por la Educación Rural en Ayacucho
Natividad Vila reseña los principales aportes, recomendaciones y alertas recogidas en tres provincias respecto a cinco de las medidas más relevantes incluidas en la propuesta de Política de Atención Educativa para la Población de Ámbitos Rurales.
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Maternal group participation and child nutritional status in Peru
Using data from the Peruvian sample of the Young Lives study, this paper investigates the association between maternal group participation and child nutritional status at the ages of 1 and 5 years. This study finds that the relationship between child nutrition and maternal group participation depends on the level of maternal education. In fact, maternal […]
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Do Dreams Come True? Aspirations and Educational Attainments of Ethiopian Boys and Girls
Authors use unique individual-level panel data from Ethiopia to investigate the role of aspirations for human-capital investments. More specifically, they investigate how parental and children’s aspirations form and document the relation between early aspirations and educational attainment at the age of 15 and 19. Researchers find that aspirations are predictive of the number of year of […]
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Effects of lipid-based nutrient supplements v. micronutrient powders on nutritional and developmental outcomes among Peruvian infants
The objective of this article is to determine the effects of lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS) on children’s Hb, linear growth and development, compared with supplementation with micronutrient powder (MNP). Regarding its design, the study was a two-arm parallel-group randomized controlled trial, where participants received either LNS or MNP for daily consumption during 6 months. Supplements […]
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Is education a risk factor or social vaccine against HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa? The effect of schooling across public health periods
Early in the 30-year HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, epidemiological studies identified formal education attainment as a risk factor: educated Sub-Saharan Africans had a higher risk of contracting HIV/AIDS than their less educated peers. Later demographic research reported that by the mid-1990s the education effect had reversed, and education began to function as a social […]
