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How corruption hits people when they are down
Hunt, Jennifer (contributor) - 2006
"Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims' demand for public services, raising bribery indirectly, and also increases victims' propensity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359285
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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement : evidence from within-teacher within-student variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
knowledge ; student achievement ; Peru …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975622
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Bribery in health care in Peru and Uganda
Hunt, Jennifer (contributor) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003590539
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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to a continuum of comparison groups
Ñopo, Hugo (contributor) - 2007
proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591487
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Employment and deadweight loss effects of observed non-wage labor costs
Aguilar, Giovanna (contributor);  … - 2007
To assess the employment effects of labor costs it is crucial to have reliable estimates of the labor cost elasticity of labor demand. Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we estimate a long run unconditional labor demand function, exploiting information on workers to correct for endogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607700
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Child labor and schooling response to changes in coca production in rural Peru
Dammert, Ana C. (contributor) - 2007
coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyze the indirect effects of the anti-coca policy on children's allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609616
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Returns to private education in Peru
Calónico, Sebastián (contributor); Ñopo, Hugo (contributor) - 2007
individual returns to education in Urban Peru. Exploiting a rich pair of data sets (ENNIV 1997 and 2000) that include questions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578427
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Matching bias in labor demand estimation
Aguilar, Giovanna (contributor);  … - 2007
Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching between firms and workers leads to an underestimation of the absolute value of wage elasticity of labor demand. -- Matching ; employment ; labor demand estimation
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561636
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The long-run labor-market consequences of civil war : evidence from the Shining Path in Peru
Galdo, Jose - 2010
armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the actions of a tenacious, brutally effective war machine, the Shining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003984792
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Technology and child development : evidence from the one laptop per child program
Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; … - 2012
program, using data collected after 15 months of implementation in 319 primary schools in rural Peru. The results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533315