"This paper analyzes the relative importance of short term financial constraints vis a vis skills and other background factors affecting schooling decisions when explaining access to higher education in Peru. We focus on college access disparities between rich and poor households. We use a novel...

"Improvements in health conditions of the population are shown in a better quality of life, in individual welfare, and also in the development of the society. The economic growth in the past decades (5% average in the last 15 years; BCRP) allowed important advances in the Peruvian health sector....

"This paper estimates the inefficiency of Peruvian electricity distribution companies to determine if the expected results from the 90’s reform were met. To do this, we used data for 19 distribution companies for the period 2000 – 2008 using a Cost Stochastic Frontier approach and estimating...