This is a first study about labor discrimination against Afro‐descendants in Peru. We randomly assigned Afro‐Peruvian and white surnames and photographs (subjectively beautiful, homely looking, or not photos) to 3,828 fictitious résumés, sent for unskilled, technical, and professional...

This paper reviews the main causes of the rapid growth of credit in Peru during the 1990s. The creation of new types of lending intermediaries besides traditional banks has allowed debt to increase and credit to be extended to new classes of borrowers such as middle and lower-class urban...

In labor markets where disadvantaged students are discriminated against, meritbased college scholarships targeting these students could convey two opposing signals to employers. There is a positive signal reflecting the candidate's cognitive ability (talented in high-school and able to maintain...

"El crecimiento económico en las décadas pasadas (5% en promedio en los últimos 15 años) permitió importantes avances del Perú en el sector salud. Como consecuencia, los indicadores de desarrollo del sector, tales como mortalidad infantil y materna y la desnutrición crónica muestran una...

"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...

"En esta investigación analizamos las diferencias étnicas y de sexo en el progreso educativo en el Perú, en los últimos 50 años. Usamos un pool de datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Hogares del 2004-2009 e identificamos cuatro etnias: blanca/mestiza, amazónica, quechua/aymara, y...