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International Remittances and the Labour Market in Peru
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2023-11-28)International remittances are a relevant source of income in developing countries, with important implications for the labour market of recipient countries. Peruvian international migration is a particular case of Latin ... -
The Odyssey of science: The case of Karl Popper and Adolfo Figueroa
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2023-12-29)What does the Immanuel kant´s paradox mean for science? Why is the difference between analytic and synthetic sentences-propositions a central puzzle in science, epistemology, analytical philosophy, and philosophy of science? ... -
Impact of Taxes, Transfers, and Subsidies on Income Distributionand Poverty in Argentina
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2023-12-29)This study evaluates the impact of direct and indirect taxes, as well as public expenditure on transfers (monetary and in-kind, economic subsidies, healthcare, and education), on income distribution and poverty in Argentina. ... -
The effect of financial education on college students’ knowledge and skills
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2023-12-29)There is a growing literature on the importance of adults’ financial education, especially in developed countries. The literature is less abundant when it comes to assessing the effect of financial education programs on ... -
Small Firm Electricity Demand in Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2023-08-23)Research examining small commercial and industrial electricity usage patterns have historically received less attention than residential electricity consumption patterns. This study examines electricity as an input to small ... -
Preferential Trade Agreements and Productivity: Evidence from Peru
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2023-08-23)This paper analyzes the impact of reducing output tariffs (i.e., domestic tariffs on import of final goods) and input tariffs (i.e., domestic tariffs on imports of intermediate goods) on total factor productivity growth ... -
Altitude and Distance Relationships with the Multidimensional Poverty Index: The case of Peru
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2023-08-23)This paper studies the potential association between two geographic indicators, distance and altitude, with the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 1,874 district in Peru by using the National Census of 2017. We ... -
Industrial Policies vs Public Goods under Asymmetric Information
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2023-08-23)This paper presents an analytical framework that captures the informational problems and tradeoffs that policy makers face when choosing between public goods (e.g., infrastructure) and industrial policies (e.g., firm or ... -
Allocating an indivisible good. A questionnaire-experimental study of intercultural differences
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2022-12-30)Abstract We present the results of a questionnaire study in Belgium, Burkina Faso and Indonesia focusing on the problem of the just allocation of an indivisible good. The formal axioms proposed in social choice theory offer ... -
Presentation: Special Issue of ECONOMÍA “Economic Inequality and Redistribution Policies”
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Poverty dynamics in Nairobi's slums; Testing for state dependence and heterogeneity effects
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2022-12-30)We investigate the factors underlying poverty transitions in Nairobi’s slums focusing on whether differences in characteristics make people more prone to enter poverty and persist in, or whether past experience of poverty ... -
Mobility prospects and preferences for redistribution in Latin America
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2022-12-30)The present paper aims to provide evidence about the POUM hypothesis (prospects of upward mobility) in Latin America. It postulates that preferences for redistribution decrease with the prospects of upward mobility of ... -
Monetary Policy and Inequality under Household Heterogeneityand Incomplete Markets
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2022-12-30)Motivated by the empirical evidence of the effects of unanticipated nominal interest rate increases on the evolution of household inequality in Mexico, which highlight the importance of insurance mechanisms to deal with ... -
Women Empowerment and Demand for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2022-12-30)We analyze the effect of women's empowerment on their demand for reproductive and sexual health services. In particular, we explore their use of modern contraceptive methods, if the women have had an HIV screening and if ... -
Spatial Diffusion of Civil Liberty
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2021-05-06)This paper studies the existence of spatial diffusion of civil liberty among neighboring countries. For that purpose, we first combine different exploratory space-time data analysis approaches to find that this phenomenon ... -
Is it Time to Reassess the Focal Role of Core PCE Inflation in Assessing the Trend in PCE Inflation?
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2022-08-01)“Core” PCE inflation—that is, inflation in PCE-ex-food-and-energy—is widely used as an estimate of trend inflation. But it is long overdue for replacement. The original rationale of core inflation was to remove volatile ... -
Human Capital Constraints, Spatial Dependence, and Regionalization in Bolivia: A Spatial Clustering Approach
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2021-05-06)Using a novel dataset, this article studies the spatial distribution of human capital constraints across 339 municipalities in Bolivia. In particular, five human capital constraints are evaluated: chronic malnutrition in ... -
Implications of Endogenous Money Growth for Some Tests of Superneutrality and the Fisher Effect
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2022-08-01)Superneutrality of money and the Fisher Effect are well-known theoretical propositions. Empirical tests of long-run versions of these hypotheses have sometimes been done by estimating how a variable responds to a permanent ... -
Low Inflation Bends the Phillips Curve around the World
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2022-08-01)This paper finds strong support for a Phillips curve that becomes nonlinear when inflation is “low”—which our baseline model defines as less than 3 percent. The nonlinear curve is steep when output is above potential (slack ... -
A Power Booster Factor for Out-of-Sample Tests of Predictability
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2022-08-01)In this paper we introduce a “power booster factor” for out-of-sample tests of predictability. The relevant econometric environment is one in which the econometrician wants to compare the population Mean Squared Prediction ...
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