With the help of one's neighbors: externalities in the production of nutrition in Peru.

Both public and private resources contribute to the nutritional status of children. In addition, the investments made by one household may contribute to the health of other households in the neighborhood through improvements in the sanitation environment and through increases in shared knowledge. This paper measures the externalities of investments in nutrition by indicating the impact of the education of women in Peruvian neighborhoods on the nutrition of children in other households, after controlling for the education and income of those households. We find that in rural areas this shared knowledge has a significant impact on nutrition, with the coefficient of an increase in the average education of women in the neighborhood being appreciable larger than the coefficient of education in isolation. In addition, we indicate the impact of the water and sanitation environment in the neighborhood, again controlling for the household's own access to sanitation and water. In both urban and rural areas, we observe externalities from investments in such household level infrastructure with the evidence particularly strong for sanitation made by neighboring households.

Pobreza y economía social: análisis de una encuesta (ENNIV 1997) / Poverty and social economy: survey annalysis (ENNIV 1997)

Contiene: Visión global, pobreza y desarrollo social; La pobreza vista desde distintos ángulos; Movilidad social y oportunidad demográfica: Perú: 1994-1997; Ajuste económico, desigualdad y movilidad; La educación y la probabilidad de ser pobre en el Perú de hoy; Los retornos a la educación y a la experiencia en el Perú 1985-97; La demanda por servicios de salud de la mujer rural en el Perú; El aseguramiento público en salud: factores que intervienen en la elección de proveedor; La mujer peruana y la brecha salarial; Determinantes de las decisiones de trabajo en tareas no agropecuarias dentro de la finca en el Perú