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    Essays on Entrepreneurship in Ecuador: Assessing nonpecuniary effects of access to credit for heterogeneous entrepreneurs

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    This thesis aims to provide empirical evidence about heterogeneity among entrepreneurs and to explore more in depth the multidimensional concept of entrepreneurship in Ecuador. The thesis is structure in four empirical chapters. Chapter I provides an empirical framework to explore heterogeneity among enterprises and shows that microenterprises in Ecuador are highly heterogeneous. Chapter II explore the presence of mission-drift and trade-offs between social and financial. The results show vary depending on the type of microfinance institution. Chapter III explores gender differences among female and male entrepreneurs in the work-family interface. This chapter shows that female and male entrepreneurs make mostly autonomous entrepreneurial decision-making and are more likely to share decisions about household allocation resources but gender differences appear in decision-making over childbearing and child-rearing. Finally, Chapter IV includes the effect of access to credit over the satisfaction with life of entrepreneurs and shows that having access to a credit has a positive but modest effect of the life satisfaction of entrepreneurs but heterogeneity among female entrepreneurs mask the effects of microcredit programs

    Sobrepeso en el periodo post confinamiento por la pandemia covid-19

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    The research was carried out at the Jos茅 Chiriboga Grijalva Higher Technological Institute, in Ibarra, Ecuador, on a sample of students to monitor anthropometric measurements, weight and height in the context of COVID-19. For the diagnosis of nutritional status, the Body Mass Index was used; users whose Body Mass Index was between the 85th and <95th percentiles were diagnosed as overweight and those with a value equal to or greater than the 95th percentile, with obesity. The results show that 75% of the students participating in the study who suffer from obesity and 73.4% of those who are overweight live in urban areas. The highest percentage of students who are overweight are in a medium-low socioeconomic level, while the highest percentage of those who are obese are in a high socioeconomic level. Confinement as a sanitary measure for the prevention of COVID-19 infections was related to the increase in the Institute's student index.La investigaci贸n se realiz贸 en el Instituto Superior Tecnol贸gico Jos茅 Chiriboga Grijalva, en Ibarra, Ecuador a una muestra de estudiantes para el seguimiento de medidas antropom茅tricas, peso y talla en el contexto del COVID-19.  Para el diagn贸stico del estado nutricional se utiliz贸 el 脥ndice de Masa Corporal; los usuarios, cuyo 脥ndice de Masa Corporal estuvo entre los percentiles 85 y <95 se diagnosticaron con sobrepeso y aquellos con un valor igual o mayor que el percentil 95, con obesidad. Los resultados demuestran que el 75% de los estudiantes, participantes en el estudio, que padecen obesidad y el 73,4% de los que tienen sobrepeso habitan en zonas urbanas. El mayor porcentaje de los estudiantes que tienen sobrepeso se encuentran en nivel socioecon贸mico medio-bajo, mientras que el mayor porcentaje de los que padecen obesidad se encuentran en un nivel socioecon贸mico alto. El confinamiento como medida sanitaria para la prevenci贸n de contagios de COVID-19 estuvo relacionado con el incremento del 脥ndice de los estudiantes del instituto

    Percepci贸n de cuidadores principales acerca de la educaci贸n sexual a tempranas edades

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    Sexuality has been approached from censorship, mysticism and taboos since sexuality was considered as a direct reference to genitality and sexual contact. The objective of this research was to analyze the perception of parents about the importance of sexual education at an early age. This research was of an applied, descriptive and field type, carried out at the Rafael Suarez Educational Unit in the city of Ibarra, Ecuador. The sample used in the study was 102 parents of children from 5 to 6 years of age, to whom a survey consisting of 12 closed questions was applied in reference to issues related to the importance of child sexual education; verifying that parents consider that they are an important issue to be dealt with and that sometimes they do not have the tools to do so, so most of them agree with the inclusion of the subject of sexual education in the classrooms since it is considered that it should be approached with the same naturalness with which cognitive or psychomotor learning is treated both within the classroom environment and at home.  La sexualidad se ha abordado desde la censura, el misticismo y los tab煤s ya que se consideraba a sexualidad como referencia directa a la genitalidad y el contacto sexual. El objetivo de esta investigaci贸n fue analizar la percepci贸n de los cuidadores principales acerca de la importancia de la educaci贸n sexual a tempranas edades. Esta investigaci贸n fue de tipo aplicada, descriptiva y de campo, realizada en la Unidad Educativa Rafael Suarez de la ciudad de Ibarra Ecuador. La muestra utilizada en el estudio fue de 102 cuidadores principales de los ni帽os de 5 a 6 a帽os a los cuales se les aplic贸 una encuesta integrada por 12 preguntas cerradas en referencia a temas relacionados con la importancia de la educaci贸n sexual infantil; comprob谩ndose que los cuidadores principales consideran que sean un tema importante a ser tratado y que en ocasiones no tienen las herramientas para hacerlo por lo que en su mayor铆a est谩n de acuerdo con la inclusi贸n de la asignatura de educaci贸n sexual en las aulas dado que se considera que debe ser abordada con la misma naturalidad con la que se tratan los aprendizajes cognitivos o psicomotrices tanto dentro del entorno del aula como en el hogar

    El sistema cooperativista de ahorro y cr茅dito: una alternativa s贸lida en el contexto de la dolarizaci贸n. El caso de la Uni贸n de Cooperativas de Ahorro y Cr茅dito del Norte UCACNOR

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    La presente disertaci贸n de tesis tiene como objetivo mostrar la evoluci贸n del Sistema Cooperativista de Ahorro y Cr茅dito en los a帽os de dolarizaci贸n posterior a la crisis, para demostrar el desempe帽o financiero y social, eficiencia, rentabilidad y aporte de este sector a la econom铆a Ecuatoriana; a trav茅s del caso de estudio UCACNOR. El Cap铆tulo I de Introducci贸n, contiene los Antecedentes, Delimitaci贸n del Problema, la Metodolog铆a utilizada, la Justificaci贸n y el Planteamiento del problema donde se plantean las preguntas, hip贸tesis y objetivos de trabajo a comprobarse y realizarse a lo largo de la investigaci贸n. El Cap铆tulo II se refiere al Marco Te贸rico que contempla al Socialismo Ut贸pico, al Neoliberalismo y a la Econom铆a Socia o Solidaria como modelos de pensamiento; y, los indicadores de desempe帽o social y financiero para instituciones microfinancieras, como herramientas matem谩ticas. Concluyendo con el argumento y la evaluaci贸n del Marco Te贸rico donde se manifiesta la idoneidad del modelo de pensamiento de la Econom铆a Social o Solidaria escogido para la realizaci贸n de la investigaci贸n....

    Essays on Entrepreneurship in Ecuador: Assessing nonpecuniary effects of access to credit for heterogeneous entrepreneurs

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    This thesis aims to provide empirical evidence about heterogeneity among entrepreneurs and to explore more in depth the multidimensional concept of entrepreneurship in Ecuador. The thesis is structure in four empirical chapters. Chapter I provides an empirical framework to explore heterogeneity among enterprises and shows that microenterprises in Ecuador are highly heterogeneous. Chapter II explore the presence of mission-drift and trade-offs between social and financial. The results show vary depending on the type of microfinance institution. Chapter III explores gender differences among female and male entrepreneurs in the work-family interface. This chapter shows that female and male entrepreneurs make mostly autonomous entrepreneurial decision-making and are more likely to share decisions about household allocation resources but gender differences appear in decision-making over childbearing and child-rearing. Finally, Chapter IV includes the effect of access to credit over the satisfaction with life of entrepreneurs and shows that having access to a credit has a positive but modest effect of the life satisfaction of entrepreneurs but heterogeneity among female entrepreneurs mask the effects of microcredit programs
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