Poverty and Equity
The researchers in this area of GRADE develop methodologies for conducting research into the multi-disciplinary causes and characteristics of the mechanisms that sustain poverty , inequality and exclusion, as well as studies to identify opportunities for change.
Senior Researchers
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Martín Benavides Abanto (on leave)
PhD en Sociology - Pennsylvania State University
Martín Benavides has a PhD in Sociology from Pennsylvania State University where he also attained a Master’s Degree in Education Policy. He has a degree in Sociology and a BA in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and has been a visiting student on issues of social mobility and inequality at Nuffield College […]
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Juan José Díaz Noziglia
PhD en Economics - University of Maryland
Juan José Díaz has a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. His interests include the labor economy and evaluating social, educational, health and development programs.
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Javier Escobal D`Angelo
PhD en Economic Development - Wageningen University
Javier holds a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, and a Master’s degree from New York University, where he also carried out doctoral studies in Economics. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. He is also Co-Researcher in the Young Lives/Niños del Milenio longitudinal study, which follows more than 2000 children during the […]
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Gabriela Guerrero Barnechea
PhD en Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
Gabriela Guerrero has a PhD in Educational Sciences from the KU Leuven in Belgium and a Master’s Degree in Development Studies with a major in Public Policy from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She is currently a […]
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Miguel Jaramillo Baanante
PhD en History - University of California
Miguel Jaramillo has a degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He completed his graduate studies in Economics and History at the University of California, where he received a PhD in History. His areas of interests are labor economics, social policy and institutional analysis. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. […]
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Juan León Jara-Almonte
PhD en - Pennsylvania State University
Juan has a PhD in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education from Pennsylvania State University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with mention in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE. His research interests are inequality in education, intercultural bilingual education, early […]
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Vanessa Rojas Arangoitia
PhD en - Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Vanessa holds a PhD in Sociology from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. She has a degree in Anthropology and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Her work has focused on the anthropology of education and childhood, addressing issues of educational transitions, child welfare, educational quality and power relations. During 2012, she […]
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Alan Sánchez Jiménez
PhD en Economics - University of Oxford
Alan has a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. He also holds a master degree in Economics for Development from Oxford. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE, a Senior Researcher at Young Lives Peru, and a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Department of International Development. He teaches on quantitative methodologies for impact […]
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Máximo Torero Cullen (de licencia)
PhD en Economics - University of California, Los Angeles
Maximo received a PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Economics and held a postdoctoral fellow position at the UCLA Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR). Currently, he is the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Prior to joining FAO, he was the World Bank Group Executive Director for […]
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Martín Valdivia Huaringa
PhD en Applied Economics - University of Minnesota
Martin Valdivia has a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota. He has worked as a Senior Researcher at GRADE since 1993. His fields of interest include entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, rural development and more recently democratic governance, with publications in journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Development […]
Adjunct Researchers
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Claudia Sugimaru Arakaki
Máster en Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
Claudia holds a Master’s degree in Educational Sciences from KU Leuven in Belgium and a degree in Psychology with a major in Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Currently, she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE.
External Consultants
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Paulo César Carrasco Fernández
Degree en - Pedro Ruíz Gallo National University
Paulo holds a Degree in Sociology from the National University Pedro Ruiz Gallo in Lambayeque and is a member of the Professional Board of Sociologists in Peru (Colegio de Sociólogos del Perú). Currently he is a Field Supervisor of the Childhood, Violence and Development Project funded by Bernard van Leer Foundation.
Project Support Staff
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Mónica Lizama Egoavil
Degree en - National Agrarian University
Mónica studied Statistical and Computer Science Engineer at the National University Agrarian La Molina. Currently she is the Data Manager for Young Lives in Peru. Before joining Young Lives, Mónica worked as a statistics assistant at the Peruvian National Institute of Statistics (INEI) and the International Nutrition Institute (IIN).
External Affiliated Researchers
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Jere R. Behrman
Ph.D. en - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Behrman is a leading international researcher in empirical microeconomics, with emphasis on developing economies. He is also a Research Associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center. His research interests include empirical microeconomics, labor economics, human resources (early childhood development, education, health, nutrition), project evaluation, economic demography, incentive systems and household behaviors. The unifying dimension of […]
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Marta Favara
PhD en - University of Essex
Marta is a Senior Researcher at the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford where she is leading the quantitative research agenda of Young Lives since 2015. She is also a Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin School Programme on African Governance and an IZA Research Affiliate. Before joining Young Lives, she […]
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Carmen Ponce San Román
PhD en Economics - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Carmen Ponce is an External Affiliated Researcher at GRADE and is currently affiliated as Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University (Toronto, Canada). She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a MSc. In Economics from the University of Texas […]
Publications
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JournalInternational Journal of Educational Research
Does pre-school improve cognitive abilities among children with early-life stunting? A longitudinal study for Peru
2015 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon, Kirk Dearden, Benjamin Crookston, Jere R Behrman, Jere R. Behrman
Several studies in developing countries have found that children who experience growth faltering in the first years of life show lower cognitive abilities than their peers. In this study, we use the Young Lives longitudinal dataset in Peru to analyze if attending pre-school affects cognitive abilities at age five years, and if there is an […]
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JournalJournal of Family Violence
The Co-Occurrence of Domestic and Child Violence in Urban Peru: Evidence from Three Regions
2015 Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Marcela Ponce de León
Using a unique dataset collected from three regions in Peru (Huancavelica, Lima and Loreto), this study explores the co-occurrence of domestic and child violence within households; that is, the situation where a victim of domestic violence (mother) becomes a perpetrator towards other family members (children) in the same household. Secondly, the study seeks to analyze […]
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JournalWorld Development
Participatory Democracy and Effective Policy: Is There a Link? Evidence from Rural Peru
2015 Miguel Jaramillo, Glenn Daniel Wright
We examine the relationship between participatory democratic institutions and effective agricultural policy in rural Peruvian municipalities, using a unique quantitative dataset of 100 Peruvian municipalities at two points in time, allowing us to examine (a) bottom-up, grassroots participatory governance institutions, and (b) Peru’s top-down participatory budgeting reform implemented in all Peruvian sub-national governments in the […]
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Características socioeconómicas y rendimiento de los estudiantes en el Perú
2015 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon, Alejandra Miranda
Aportes para el diseño de políticas orientadas a reducir la inequidad del sistema educativo peruano a través de un diagnóstico de la relación entre el nivel socioeconómico (NSE) de los estudiantes y sus familias, y sus oportunidades para aprender.
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Juventud y desarrollo: resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Cuarta ronda de encuestas en el Perú
2015 Alan Sanchez, Guido Meléndez
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Ethnicity and earnings in urban Peru
2004, Maximo Torero,
The relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. Our approach to the concept of ethnicity involves the usage of instruments in many of its several dimensions: mother tongue, parental background, religion, migration events and race.
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Enfoques educativos para niños y niñas trabajadores: estudio de caso de dos experiencias peruanas
2003Miguel Jaramillo, ,
En el Mimeo se busca comparar la gestión y resultados educativos de escuelas incluidas en el Programa DINALEA en Lima Metropolitana con aquella promovida por la organización Manthoc en Lima Metropolitana.
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Estructura del hogar y ahorro durante el ciclo de vida: evidencia de las cohortes peruanas
2003Martin Valdivia,
Análisis de la evidencia empírica de los arreglos intergeneracionales de coresidencia y ahorro familiar sobre el seguimiento de cohortes a lo largo de cuatro rondas de la Enaho sobre Medición de Niveles de Vida.
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Financiamiento de la educación pública en el Perú: el rol de las familias
2002
Evolución reciente del gasto público y de las familias en educación para estimar el gasto total en educación del sector público y estudio del patrón de gasto familiar a lo largo de la distribución del ingreso.
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Projects
News
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Javier Escobal: “Necesitamos un piso parejo para que los segmentos más pobres del Perú puedan engancharse de manera efectiva al crecimiento”
May 12, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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La reducción de la pobreza rural es mayor que la urbana, según el INEI
April 24, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Más dinamismo, más reducción de pobreza
April 24, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Meta de bajar la pobreza a 20% al 2016 será “muy complicada” si el PBI no crece 4%
April 24, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Javier Escobal: “Los programas sociales no son tan importantes para reducir la pobreza total”
April 24, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Events
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Eduardo Zegarra participará en el VI Simposium del Agua, organizado por la Sociedad Nacional de Minería, Petroleo y Energía
22/10/2014 8:30 - 7:00 pm Local de la Sociedad Nacional de Minería, Petróleo y Energía (Jirón De La Roca de Vergallo N° 461 - Magdalena del Mar) Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions
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El Ministerio de Cultura y GRADE organizan la conferencia “Inclusión, visibilidad estadística y políticas públicas para población afroperuana”
22/10/2014 9:00 am - 7:30 pm Hotel Sol de Oro (Calle San Martín 305, Miraflores) Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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GRADE on live, Publication Presentation
GRADE y el IEP presentaron el libro “América Latina hacia la inclusión social. Avances, aprendizajes y desafíos”, en el marco de ILAIPP
09/10/2014 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions
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Investigadores de GRADE participarán en el seminario internacional Protección social, emprendimiento y activación del mercado laboral: evidencias para mejores políticas
10/09/2014 → 11/09/2014 8:30 am - 7:30 pm Local de IPEA (Brasilia, Brasil) Rural development and agriculture, Employment, productivity and innovation, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Investigadores de GRADE participarán en el I Congreso Anual de la Asociación Peruana de Economía
08/08/2014 → 09/08/2014 Universidad de Piura – Campus Lima (Calle Mártir José Olaya 162, Miraflores) Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality
- Education and Learning
- Employment, Productivity and Innovation
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Ethnicity, Gender and Citizenship
- Methodologies for Research and Evaluation of Policy and Programmes
- Poverty and Equity
- Natural Resources, Extractive Industries and Social Conflict
- State Reform and Public Institutions
- Health and Nutrition
- Urbanization and Sustainable Cities
