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Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes : A Field Experiment on Discrimination

Castillo, Marco - 2012

in Lima, Peru. Examining the entire path of negotiation we find that men face higher initial prices and rejection rates …

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Dissecting the Effect of Credit Supply on Trade : Evidence from Matched Credit-Export Data

Paravisini, Daniel - 2011

We estimate the elasticity of exports to credit using matched customs and firm-level bank credit data from Peru. To …

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Consumption Risk-sharing in Social Networks

Ambrus, Attila - 2010

We develop a model of informal risk-sharing in social networks, where relationships between individuals can be used as social collateral to enforce insurance payments. We characterize incentive compatible risk-sharing arrangements and obtain two results. (1) The degree of informal insurance is...

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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

Hunt, Jennifer - 2007

in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care …: doubling household consumption increases the bribery probability by 0.2-0.4 percentage points in Peru, compared to a bribery … to a bribery rate of 17%. The income elasticity of the bribe amount cannot be precisely estimated in Peru, but is about 0 …

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How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down

Hunt, Jennifer - 2006

Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims' demand for public services, raising bribery indirectly, and also increases victims' propensity to...

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Bribery : Who Pays, Who Refuses, What Are the Payoffs?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2005

We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the payoffs to the client's decision. We test this framework using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by households. The theory predicts that bribery is more...

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Why Are Some Public Officials more Corrupt Than Others?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2005

Using detailed Peruvian data measuring bribery, I assess which types of public official are most corrupt and why. I distinguish between the bribery rate and the size of bribes received, and seek to explain the variation in each across public institutions. The characteristics of officials'...

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The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth : Micro Evidence from Peru

Keefer, Philip - 2020

Exploiting a unique empirical setting, 1,000 vendors in 90 traditional food markets in Lima, we document that historic social ties among market founders are associated, decades later, with stricter formal (third party) enforcement of market rules, more collective action, and the greater...

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Gender Violence, Enforcement, and Human Capital : Evidence from All-Women's Justice Centers in Peru

Sviatschi, María Micaela - 2020

this inequality for gender-based violence and investment in children? This paper provides evidence from Peru's women …

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Obesity and Labor Market in Peru

Nuñez, Roy - 2020

and socioeconomic information, I analyzed the relationship between obesity and employment and wages in Peru, a country …

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