Projects
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Domestic violence
Understanding the key facts about the phenomenon of violence against women in Peru is a first step to create awareness, internal and external, and design better policies. This project will focus on the preparation of a document on violence against women in Peru. Data will be analyzed -in particular, from the Demographic and Family Health […]
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Review of the school resources in Colombia
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) set up an international team to carry out an analysis and provide recommendations on how to distribute, use and manage resources for the achievement of Colombia’s educational objectives. Policy evidence was reviewed to help governments achieve effectiveness, efficiency and equity in education. Gabriela Guerrero, member of the […]
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Escalamiento de Políticas, Iniciativas y Programas en Sudamérica
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Developing an interactive map on the state of literacy and education of youth and adults in Peru
It is aim to prepare an interactive map on literacy and education for youth and adults in Peru, at national, regional and provincial levels, including the population in illiteracy conditions and the school-age population that is out of school. For this purpose, among other activities, statistical information will be collected, taking as main sources data […]
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Typology of provincial and district municipalities of Peru
The purpose of the study is to create a multidimensional territorial typology for the design of policies that face two main challenges: (i) identify the key thematic dimensions for the analysis and the most relevant variables to approximate them, and (ii) the aggregation methods of the information available for the definition of categories that are useful for […]
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Designing educational interventions for elementary education
This project aims to design an educational intervention or set of interventions, based on available evidence, that have potential to generate a positive impact on public elementary schools students at a relatively low cost. It is expected that these interventions will be implemented and evaluated later in a group of schools.
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Adjusting parameters contained in Altman Model Z to Peru’s economic reality
The use of predictive models of firms with financial issues is useful as indirect indicators of the potential risk of tax noncompliance since companies with such issues may be encouraged to use evasion or avoidance mechanisms in order to finance themselves with taxes. One such model is Edward Altman’s Model Z undertake from some indicators drawn […]
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Adapting parameters contained in the Model Z of Altman to the reality of the Peruvian economy
The use of predictive models of firms with financial problems is useful as indirect indicators of the potential risk of tax non-compliance, since firms with such problems may be encouraged to use evasion or circumvention mechanisms in order to finance themselves with taxes. One of these models is the Model Z of Edward Altman built […]
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Institutions and competitiveness: the case of Lima’s supply markets
This study aims to explain the reasons why traditional markets retain the leading role in retail food in Lima, despite the entry of supermarkets in the surrounding areas. Specifically, three main objectives are sought: First, to describe the expansion of supermarkets in Metropolitan Lima, as well as to study the main factors that explain or […]
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Does the school reproduce inequalities? Segregation between classrooms
Most studies have focused on explaining the gaps in educational outcomes addressing differences between schools. However, little has been done to observe the differences within the same school, while the empirical evidence shows that the differences still persist there. This study aims to study how the practice carried out by some schools to separate students between classrooms based […]