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We provide empirical evidence supporting a causal link between education and risk attitudes when using representative data from representative surveys and artefactual or lab-on-the-field experiments in Lima, Peru. We employ three standard experimental measures of risk attitudes and find that...
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determinants of household welfare changes in developing countries …
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Using panel data for Peru for 1994-2000, the authors find that when households receive two, or more services jointly, the welfare increases as measured by changes in consumption are larger than when services are provided separately. The increases appear to be more than proportional, as F-tests...
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, the welfare increases of the household, as measured by changes in consumption, are larger than when services are provided …
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Critics of privatization argue that poor labor force restructuring is a key concern and that governments should … owners after privatization. Our results show that adverse selection plagues retrenchment programs carried out by governments … before privatization. Controlling for endogeneity, several labor retrenchment policies yield a negative impacton net …
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quality of management. While labor productivity increases after privatization, the ratio of permanent workers to temporary … productivity and training. -- Privatization ; Labor ; Firms ; Institutions ; Public Sector ; Cross-Country …
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