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Sterilization policy with incomplete information: Peru 1995-2000
Rendón, Sílvio - 2020
In this research I investigate what percentage of female sterilizations performed in Peru from 1993 to 2000 were done …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315404
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How early nutrition and foundational cognitive skills interconnect? : evidence from two developing countries
Sanchez, Alan; Favara, Marta; Sheridan, Margaret; … - 2022
, especially in LMIC contexts. We use unique data collected in Ethiopia and Peru as part of the Young Lives to investigate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471478
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Economic mobility and fairness in a developing country : evidence from Peru
Castro, Juan Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo; Medina, Santiago; … - 2023
intragenerational mobility in Peru using an asset-based measure of wealth and longitudinal data from the Young Lives project (2002 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366727
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Distributional effects of macroeconomic policy choices in emerging market economies
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2013
Distributional consequences typically receive limited attention in economic models that analyze the effects of monetary and financial sector policies. These consequences deserve more attention since financial markets are incomplete, imperfect, and economic agents' access to them is often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222156
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The real exchange rate and growth in Zimbabwe : does the currency regime matter?
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2014
Zimbabwe faces growth and external competitiveness challenges, as indicated by its low trend growth and investment, declining share in the world exports, high current account deficits, and external debt. The stock-flow approach to the equilibrium exchange rate reveals that the real exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398776
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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