Faculty Advisor
Warning, Matt
Area of Study
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Publication Date
Summer 2020
Abstract
Discount rates are used in cost-benefit analysis by private and public actors in Perú, yet the methodology of computing for this economic measure hasn’t been updates in decades. This research suggests using household-level choice sets to compute for Andean discounting. Andean mothers are a population of interest as following “La ley de reforma agraria” passed in 1969, Indigenous communities in the Andes were relabeled as the campesino community in an attempt to erase Indigeneity. The purpose of this research was to provide a review and consideration of context, culture, and condition in the design of choice sets that can capture the long-term decision making of Andean mothers’ in regard to their children and diminishing natural resource base.
Award
Agricola
Recommended Citation
Vidal Meza, Alessandra, "Choice Sets for Andean Mothers' Discounting" (2020). Summer Research. 378.
https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/summer_research/378
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Publisher
University of Puget Sound
Included in
Growth and Development Commons, Latin American Studies Commons, Political Economy Commons