Studies in the microeconometric literature increasingly utilize distance to or time to reach markets or social services as determinants of economic issues. These studies typically use self-reported measures from survey data, often characterized by non-classical measurement error. This paper is...

We experimentally test for the effect of an additional alternative on the measured risk preferences of farmers in rural Peru. In our experiment, subjects revealed their risk preferences with a series of choices between two gambles. We added a third gamble, which was always dominated by one of...

Este informe presenta los resultados iniciales de la tercera ronda de encuestas en el Perú del estudio Niños del Milenio, llevada a cabo desde fines del año 2009 hasta principios del 2010 con niños de dos grupos de edad, llamados cohortes. El informe de Niños del Milenio proporciona una...