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Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while paying zero or preferential tariffs as long as Rules of Origin (ROOs) are met. Meeting them is costly not only in terms of production costs but also in terms of documentation costs....

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Long-term effects of the Inca Road

Franco, Ana Paula; Galiani, Sebastián; Lavado, Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

across parts of the current territories of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the whole of Peru. The Inca Road … development in Peru. Our results show that the long-run effect of the Inca Road includes increases in wages and educational …

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Financial Dollarization in Emerging Markets : Efficient Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster?

Christiano, Lawrence J.; Dalgic, Husnu; Nurbekyan, Armen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

large cross-country dataset, as well as case studies for Peru and Armenia. We develop a simple model which formalizes the …

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Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality : Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Peru

Bobba, Matteo; Ederer, Tim; Leon-Ciliotta, Gianmarco; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

qualified teachers. Leveraging an unconditional change in the teacher compensation structure in Peru, we first show causal …

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Trust and Saving in Financial Institutions

Galiani, Sebastian - 2020

services by the poor. We randomly assigned beneficiaries of a conditional cash transfer program in 130 villages in Peru to …

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Effect of Inquiry and Problem Based Pedagogy on Learning : Evidence from 10 Field Experiments in Four Countries

Bando, Rosangela - 2019

This paper uses data from 10 at-scale field experiments in four countries to estimate the effect of inquiry- and problem-based pedagogy (IPP) on students' mathematics and science test scores. IPP creates active problem-solving opportunities in settings that provide meaning to the child. Students...

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Do Children Benefit from Internet Access? Experimental Evidence from Peru

Malamud, Ofer - 2018

Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did …

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Consumption Risk-sharing in Social Networks

Ambrus, Attila - 2010

We develop a model of informal risk-sharing in social networks, where relationships between individuals can be used as social collateral to enforce insurance payments. We characterize incentive compatible risk-sharing arrangements and obtain two results. (1) The degree of informal insurance is...

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Trust and Social Collateral

Mobius, Markus - 2007

This paper builds a theory of informal contract enforcement in social networks. In our model, relationships between individuals generate social collateral that can be used to control moral hazard when agents interact in a borrowing relationship. We define trust between two agents as the maximum...

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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

Hunt, Jennifer - 2007

in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care …: doubling household consumption increases the bribery probability by 0.2-0.4 percentage points in Peru, compared to a bribery … to a bribery rate of 17%. The income elasticity of the bribe amount cannot be precisely estimated in Peru, but is about 0 …

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