During the past decades, the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (known as PUCP) has been giving student loans to some of its students with satisfactory academic performance but who face certain economic problems which might interrupt their studies. Although this program was created more than...

In recent years the program evaluation methods have become very popular in applied microeconomics. However, the variety of these methods responds to specific problems, which are normally determined by the data available and the impact the researcher tries to measure. This paper summarizes the...

In the last two decades, the Chilean health sector suffered a deep reform, establishing a new scheme with two sectors: the public health insurance and many private health insurance companies. This essay analyzes a especial outcome in the Chilean health insurance sector: the majority of the...

The objective of this paper is to show the most important aspects of the Peruvian Health System Reform, discussing its advantages and disadvantages in comparison to the Chilean Health Reform, the earliest in the region. The discussion focuses on some aspects such as equity of the system,...

El Perú viene enfrentando un proceso de envejecimiento de su población. Esto puede convertirse en un problema futuro dada la actual baja cobertura en seguros de salud y pensiones de la población adulta mayor. El documento simula el impacto que el envejecimiento poblacional tendrá sobre las...

El objetivo de esta investigación es estudiar si el orden de nacimiento tiene algún efecto sobre el atraso escolar. En este documento, el atraso escolar se refiere a la matricula de un alumno a un grado por debajo del recomendado para su edad. La potencial asociación entre el orden de...