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...

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...

The early establishment and persistence of landholding inequality is linked to poor long-run development outcomes. One crucial channel runs through human capital: large landowners historically underinvested in public goods such as schools, restricted workers and their children from to attending...

A pesar de la importante magnitud alcanzada por Sierra Productiva durante casi 20 años de intervención –tanto en términos de cobertura como de incidencia en la política nacional–, no se contaba con una evaluación sobre el alcance real de sus resultados a nivel agregado, e incluso las...

A lo largo de las últimas décadas la Sierra rural ha sido escenario de múltiples intervenciones. El presente libro tiene como propósito comparar el desempeño relativo de dos proyectos que han venido trabajando para mejorar las condiciones de vida de la población rural pobre de la Sierra...