Exploiting a unique empirical setting, 1,000 vendors in 90 traditional food markets in Lima, we document that historic social ties among market founders are associated, decades later, with stricter formal (third party) enforcement of market rules, more collective action, and the greater...

Exploiting a unique empirical setting, 1,000 vendors in 90 traditional food markets in Lima, we document that historic social ties among market founders are associated, decades later, with stricter formal (third party) enforcement of market rules, more collective action, and the greater...

Exploiting a unique empirical setting, 1,000 vendors in 90 traditional food markets in Lima, we document that historic social ties among market founders are associated, decades later, with stricter formal (third party) enforcement of market rules, more collective action, and the greater...

A lo largo de las últimas décadas la Sierra rural ha sido escenario de múltiples intervenciones. El presente libro tiene como propósito comparar el desempeño relativo de dos proyectos que han venido trabajando para mejorar las condiciones de vida de la población rural pobre de la Sierra...

A pesar de la importante magnitud alcanzada por Sierra Productiva durante casi 20 años de intervención –tanto en términos de cobertura como de incidencia en la política nacional–, no se contaba con una evaluación sobre el alcance real de sus resultados a nivel agregado, e incluso las...

The growing body of literature devoted to study the impact of inequality on economic growth have centred its attention in the income distribution effect, even though the theoretical relationships are more related to assets distributions than to income distribution. While some recent studies have...

We use experimental and survey data from two natural-hazard prone countries in Latin America to test the hypothesis that natural hazards affect risk aversion. We use two methods to measure risk aversion: simple questions on the willingness to pay for a hypothetical lottery and more complicated...