Perú ha experimentado en los decenios recientes un significativo incremento en su cobertura de educación, en general, y de la educación superior, en particular. Sin embargo, las altas tasas de desempleo y subempleo existentes siembran dudas acerca del rendimiento de las inversiones en...

We propose a systemic approach to MDG assessment, which aims at exploiting the existence of interrelations and sinergies among indicators via the integration of a macro scenarios model and a set of probabilistic microeconometric models. Given this integrated system and an explicit loss function...

This paper uses information from a panel based on Peruvian National Household Surveys between 1998 and 2005 to quantitatively estimate the impacts that the loss of a job from a household member has. We find the following effects in the short run: a) reduces family income by 27%, b) reduces...