"Identifying successful strategies for fighting child malnutrition in Peru"
Janice Seinfeld and Arlette Beltrán

Child malnutrition has not improved in the last decade in Peru, despite the important economic growth of the last fifteen years. One out of four children suffers chronic malnutrition and inequalities among different income quintiles are significant.

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"Disentangling the role of Pre-Labor Markets Skills and Family Background when Explaining Inequality"
Julio Guzman and Sergio S. Urzúa

This paper presents a model for the analysis of income inequality when schooling choices and labor market outcomes are endogenously determined. In our framework, individual's schooling decisions and labor market productivity are determined by observable characteristics and unobserved heterogeneity.

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"Down and Out or Up and In? In Search of Latin America’s Elusive Middle Class"
Guillermo Cruces, Luis Felipe López-Calva and Diego Battiston

This paper discusses the existing empirical implementations of the concept of middle class in the applied literature, and derives a definition based on sound principles from distributional analysis.

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