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Housing Finance in Peru : What is Holding it Back?
Bonilla, Miguel - 2015
indicates that financing will not be the main obstacle to improving housing conditions in Peru and that public sector efforts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037478
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The Impact of School-Based Financial Education on High School Students and Their Teachers : Experimental Evidence from Peru
Frisancho, Verónica - 2018
Using data from a randomized controlled trial in 300 public high schools in Peru, this paper studies the potential of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906328
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The Gender Wage Gap in Peru 1986-2000 : Evidence from a Matching Comparisons Approach
Ñopo, Hugo - 2011
Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), this paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126100
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Occupational Training to Reduce Gender Segregation : The Impacts of Projoven
Ñopo, Hugo - 2011
This paper discusses program evaluation for ProJoven, the Peruvian youth labor training program. Complementing detailed fieldwork, the econometric work implements a two-stage matching procedure on propensity scores, gender and labor income. This allows identification of differentiated program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126168
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Informality and Productivity in the Labor Market : Peru 1986 - 2001
Chong, Alberto - 2011
Peru has one of the highest informality rates in Latin America, with almost 60 percent of the urban labor force working … rates in the 1990s. First, Peru experienced a steady increase in employment allocation in traditionally “informal” sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126181
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Returns to Private Education in Peru
Calonico, Sebastian - 2011
returns to education in Urban Peru. Exploiting a rich pair of data sets (ENNIV 1997 and 2000) that include questions on type …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126186
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Bundling of Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries Using Panel Data : The Case of Peru
Chong, Alberto - 2011
Using panel data for Peru for the period 1994-2000, we find that when households receive two or more services jointly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126319
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Targeting Inflation in a Dollarized Economy : The Peruvian Experience
Armas, Adrián - 2011
This discusses the unique experience of Peru`s Central Bank with inflation targeting in an economy characterized by a … high degree of financial dollarization. The paper outlines how Peru has taken financial dollarization into consideration in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126327
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Does Privatization Deliver? Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Peru
Chong, Alberto - 2011
This paper takes advantage of a quasi-natural experiment in Peru by which the privatized telecommunications company was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126331
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Provision of Public Services and Welfare of the Poor : Learning from an Incomplete Electricity Privatization Process in Rural Peru
Torero, Maximo - 2011
The incomplete privatization of the electric sector in Peru provides a unique scenario for evaluating the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126633