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Choice Sets For Andean Mothers' Discounting, Alessandra Vidal Meza

Summer Research

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 …