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Reshaping the gender gap in child time use: unintended effects of a program expanding economic opportunities in the Peruvian Andes
In the last decades, a variety of public policies and programs across the developing world have helped narrow the historical gender gap in access to education and employment. Yet, the gender gap in higher education, labor income and power relations within families -and the rural society in general- is still substantial in most developing countries. […]
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Pereza fiscal en gobiernos locales: el efecto del canon sobre la recaudación
The aim of this article is to examine if mining royalties caused a fiscal laziness effect in Peruvian local governments through lower levels of tax revenue and if this result varies when a woman is on charge of the municipality. We use administrative data from every municipality for the period 2009-2018, total production and international […]
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Habilidades, formación para el trabajo y subempleo juvenil: un enfoque de ciclo de vida
This study uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives study to establish which are the most important aspects that predict access to job formation and the labour market at age 22. Results highlight the role of cognitive skills, socio-emotional competencies, and the socio-economic level of the household to explain access to higher education institutions and […]
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Auge agroexportador en el Perú: un análisis de sobrevivencia de productos y empresas
This study presents a survival analysis for products and firms in the agroexport boom of Peru in the last three decades. The main goal is to identify explanatory factors which can be useful for public policies. The findings support strategies of scaling up and diversifying export markets, with a promotion role for the State in […]
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Communities and Spontaneous Urban Planning: A Toolkit for Urban Expansion. Project Summary
Most urbanization processes around developing countries are happening either by rural-urban migration, as it happened in Lima 25 years ago, or by high paced vegetative population growth among second and third-generation migrants, as it is happening now in Lima—and either form exerts pressure on relatively weak public institutions. State-sponsored urban planning is often absent, so […]
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Gobernanza forestal y sostenibilidad en la Amazonía: avances y desafíos de políticas en el Perú
Despite the change in the legal regime of 2001, forest management is still not very sustainable. In 2011, a new forestry law was approved (No. 29763). Which aspects of forest governance have improved and which are still a challenge are questions that this research seeks to answer. While this new law has brought substantial changes, […]
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Prevalencia de delitos en la población penal peruana: desorganización social versus aprendizaje social
The aim of the study is to identify the main factors that influence a person commits a type of crime. We will focus on two theories: social learning and social disorganization, comparing each other to determine which one is more important. A second objective is to study how crime’s main drivers and gender relate to […]
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¿La escuela reproduce las desigualdades?: segregación entre salones de clases
Most of the studies have focused on explaining the differences in educational achievements through the differences in the characteristics of schools. However, little have been done in assessing the gaps existing within the same schools. This paper’s objective is to assess how student segregation—the method of separating students in classrooms according to their grades—affects their […]
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Descentralización funcional y presupuestal de la educación pública en el Perú: un balance de avances y desafíos
Un diagnóstico de la gestión presupuestal de la educación pública en un contexto de descentralización política que ha implicado la transferencia de competencias y funciones educati