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Edutainment and Dwelling-Related Assets in Poor Rural Areas of Peru

  • Alberto Chong EMAIL logo and Martin Valdivia
Published/Copyright: June 4, 2024
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
From the journal The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy Volume 24 Issue 3

Abstract

We exploit a field experiment by (Chong, A., and M. Valdivia. 2023. “Edutainment, Savings, and Generational Differences in Rural Areas of Peru.” In Working Paper. Department of Economics, Georgia State University) and test whether poor women from rural areas in developing countries that are able to save seek dwelling-related assets and find causal evidence that this is indeed the case. Furthermore, we also find that the older cohort of women, those aged forty and higher, also prioritize material assets related to health-related expenditures, in particular, access to public sewerage system.

Keywords: edutainment; material assets; dwellings; housing; developing countries
JEL Classification: O10; D80
Corresponding author: Alberto Chong, Department of Economics, 1373 Georgia State University , 55 Park Place, Room 786, Atlanta, GA, USA; and Department of Economics, Universidad del Pacífico, Av. Salaverry 2020, Jesús María, Lima, Perú, E-mail: 

Grupo Análisis de Desarrollo (GRADE), Av. Grau 680, Barranco, Lima, Perú. We are grateful to the Program Todas Cuentan and to PEP Research Network for financial support. We thank Lorena Alcázar, Matthew Bird, Elena Caballero, Cecilia Cebrecos, Maria Cristina Gutiérrez, Dean Karlan, Jason Kerwin, Claudia Martínez, Luisa Zanforlin and seminar participants at Grupo Análisis para el Desarrollo, International Development Research Center, PEP Research Network, Universidad Católica de Chile, University of Minnesota, University of Ottawa, and the World Bank. Luis Iberico, Guadalupe Montenegro, Walter Noel, Juan Pablo Ocampo, Jorge Orozco, and Emilia Palacio provided very valuable research assistance. We thank anonymous referees and the editor, Mariapia Mendola for useful comments and suggestions. The project received IRB approval from Universidad del Pacífico. The authors declare no conflict of interests. All remaining errors are ours.

Funding source: International Development Research Centre

Award Identifier / Grant number: 703420_AZ

Appendix: Socio-Economic Characteristics at Baseline

Control T1 P-value (T–C)
Age 39.550 40.218 0.181
(0.215) (0.401)
Education
  None 0.237 0.238 0.983
(0.029) (0.019)
  Primary 0.590 0.573 0.584
(0.025) (0.020)
  Secondary or higher 0.173 0.189 0.523
(0.033) (0.016)
Quechua language used at home (yes = 1) 0.701 0.695 0.820
(0.093) (0.082)
Account balance in USD

Aug 2013–Jul 2014		 14.051 12.105 0.078
(1.738) (1.287)
Distance to district capital (kms) 48.148 46.292 0.732
(13.312) (13.368)
Terrorist-related historical violence in district (high = 1) 0.530 0.570 0.564
(0.215) (0.197)

  1. Winsorized means. Clustered standard errors at the agency level in parentheses. Source: Chong and Valdivia (2023).

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Received: 2023-07-29
Accepted: 2024-05-21
Published Online: 2024-06-04

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Keywords for this article
edutainment; material assets; dwellings; housing; developing countries

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Research Articles
  3. Asymmetric Performance Evaluation Under Quantity and Price Competition with Managerial Delegation
  4. Incentive-Induced Social Tie and Subsequent Altruism and Cooperation
  5. University Admission: Is Achievement a Sufficient Criterion?
  6. Taxing Firearms Like Alcohol or Tobacco
  7. The Growing Importance of Social Skills for Labor Market Outcomes Across Education Groups
  8. The Impact of the Affordable Care Act in Puerto Rico
  9. Strategic Individual Behaviors and the Efficient Vaccination Subsidy
  10. Is Family-Priority Rule the Right Path? An Experimental Study of the Chinese Organ Allocation System
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  15. Biased Voluntary Nutri-Score Labeling
  16. Decompositions of Inequality and Poverty by Income Source
  17. Job Loss and Migration: Do Family Connections Matter?
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