Spanish Abstract: El artículo muestra que las aspiraciones educativas de los jóvenes son formadas por el entorno en el que viven, es decir, no sólo dependen de experiencias o características propias, sino también de las experiencias de las personas que se encuentran a su alrededor, en este...

This research examines the production of quinoa as an option for improving rural incomes in the Altiplano of Bolivia; due to, on one hand, the grain is aligned perfectly to the customs and traditions of work and family of the habitants of this region, on the other hand, international demand for...

This paper identifies the main inputs considered in the model of skill formation of Cunha and Heckman (2007) and the impact of household wealth on these inputs is estimated. For this, a socioeconomic index is constructed using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method. The results from...

The following study starts by understanding poverty as a multi-dimensional phenomenom, from which a comparison of poverty measurement between unidimensional and multi-dimensional methods is made. The best way of operating a multiplicity of dimensions is addressed; besides we also take into account...