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score data for 3rd and 4th year primary school pupils in Guatemala and Peru, and 5th grade pupils in Mexico, the authors …
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public schools in urban Peru. ¡Expande tu Mente! is a 90-minute school session aimed at instilling the notion that a person …
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market outcomes. This paper tests this hypothesis in a developing country by using an individual-level data set from Peru … of labor market outcomes in Peru. In particular, cognitive skills positively correlate with wages and the probability of …
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This paper quantifies the contributions of different factors to poverty reduction observed in Bangladesh, Peru and …, mostly in the form of farm income in Bangladesh and Thailand and non-farm income in the case of Peru. This growth in labor … case of Bangladesh and through public and private transfers in Peru and Thailand. Transfers are more important in …
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Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...
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This paper provides evidence that commercial lenders in Peru free ride off their peers'screening efforts. Leveraging a …
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of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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This study collaborated with the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab and a large bank in Peru to use psychometrics for small …
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-driven public policy objectives. This paper analyzes the experience of Peru with power markets, including market design …
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result of legal reforms that strengthened the mandate of Peru's competition authority. Legislative changes in 2013 …
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