Health and Nutrition
GRADE research in this area is focused on the analysis of issues such as the state of health and nutrition in Peru, how this related to social exclusion, socio-economic status and growth, as well as how it impacts on the ability of individuals and families to develop different capacities.
Senior Researchers
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Lorena Alcázar Valdivia
PhD en Economics - Washington University
Lorena has a BA in Economics from the Pacific University in Peru, a Master’s Degree in Political and International Economy from the Kiel Institute of World Economics, and a PhD in Economics from Washington University. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE). Previously, she served as Vice-President […]
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Alan Sánchez Jiménez
PhD en Economics - University of Oxford
Alan has a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, where hi also holds a Master’s degree in Economics for Development. Currently, he holds dual affiliations as a Senior Researcher at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) at the University of Oxford, and a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of […]
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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 […]
Research Assistants
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Dianela Espinoza Fernández
BA en -
Dianela is an economist from the University of Piura. At GRADE, she supports Alan Sanchez in the “Young Lives at Work” and “Nutrition, Lifestyle, Genes and Metabolome – A Biosocial Cohort Study of Obesity and its Consequences for Non-Communicable Diseases in Young Adults from Urban Peru” projects.
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 […]
Publications
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JournalPublic Health in Practice
The evolution of young people’s mental health during COVID-19 and the role of food insecurity: evidence from a four low-and-middle-income-country cohort study
2022 Catherine Porter, Annina Hittmeyer, Marta Favara, Douglas Scott, Alan Sanchez
Provide evidence on how young people’s mental health has evolved in Low-and-Middle-Income-Countries (LMICs) during the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic. Identify particularly vulnerable groups who report high and/or continuously high rates of mental health issues. Two consecutive phone-surveys (August–October and November–December 2020) in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam interviewed around 9000 participants of a 20-year […]
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JournalEconomic Development and Cultural Change
(Un)Conditional love in the time of conditional cash transfers: the effect of the Peruvian JUNTOS program on spousal abuse
2022 Juan Jose Diaz, Víctor Saldarriaga
Cash transfer programs often target women as the recipient of the money. Unintentionally, this flow of unearned income may reduce spousal abuse. We investigate this possibility by assessing the Peruvian JUNTOS program. We exploit the staggered timing in the rollout of the program across municipalities along with its eligibility rule for determining participation to perform […]
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JournalNutrients
Role of government financial support and vulnerability characteristics associated with food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic among young Peruvians
2021 Katherine Curi-Quinto, Alan Sanchez, Nataly Lago-Berrocal, Mary E Penny, Claudia Murray, Richard Nunes, Marta Favara, Anisha Wijeyesekera, Julie Lovegrove, Victor Soto-Cáceres, Karani Santhanakrishnan Vimaleswaran
Using data from the longitudinal study Young Lives Peru, the authors investigated the profile of the young people in the study affected by food insecurity during the pandemic. They take into account the sociodemographic characteristics of Peruvian prendemic households and other shocks that made them more vulnerable. They also assess the government’s response role
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JournalInternational Journal of Epidemiology
Cohort profile update: The Young Lives study
2021 Marta Favara, Gina Crivello, Mary Penny, Catherine Porter, Ellanka Revathi, Alan Sanchez, Douglas Scott, Le Thuc Duc, Tassew Woldehanna, Andy McKay
• Young Lives is a longitudinal study tracking two cohorts of children in four low-and-middle-income countries [Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam]. • The survey started in 2002 and three rounds were completed by 2009. Two further rounds took place in 2013 (round 4) and 2016 (round 5). Most recently the round planned for 2020 was […]
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JournalMedrxiv
The evolution of young people’s mental health during COVID-19: Evidence from four low-and-middle-income-countries
2021 Catherine Porter, Marta Favara, Alan Sanchez, Douglas Scott
Aunque COVID-19 presenta menos riesgo de morbilidad o mortalidad grave para los jóvenes, la crisis económica resultante ha afectado sus medios de subsistencia. Hay relativamente poca evidencia sobre la salud mental de los jóvenes en los países de ingresos bajos y medios (LMIC) a medida que avanza la pandemia. Dos encuestas telefónicas consecutivas (agosto/octubre y […]
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Early nutrition and later cognitive achievement in developing countries
2010
This study uses longitudinal data from 8,000 children in four developing countries (Young Lives Survey) to explore the linkages between nutritional status and later cognitive achievement on preschool children.
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Promoting early childhood development through a public programme: Wawa Wasi in Peru
2009Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Claudia Sugimaru,
This paper presents the results of a Young Lives study into the impact and perceptions of the Programa Nacional Wawa Wasi, a Peruvian government programme for impoverished children aged six to 48 months. Up to eight children spend five days a week at a Wawa Wasi centre where they are assisted by a carer carefully […]
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Shock de precios y vulnerabilidad alimentaria de los hogares peruanos
2009Eduardo Zegarra,
En el estudio se cuantifica los efectos económicos del súbito aumento de los precios de alimentos en los hogares peruanos durante 2007-2008 e identifica a los hogares en situación de vulnerabilidad alimentaria.
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Psychometric characteristics of cognitive development and achievement instruments in round 2 of Young Lives
2009Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Santiago Cueto,
Young Lives (YL) is a long-term international research project about childhood poverty based at the University of Oxford that integrates cutting edge research with local, national and international policy analysis engagement. The project seeks to a) improve understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty and to examine how policies affect children’s well-being and […]
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Trade liberalisation and child welfare: assessing the impact of a free trade agreement between Peru and the USA
2007Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce,
Peru is in the process of negotiating a free trade agreement with the USA which would eliminate trade concessions on most goods and serv
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JournalReview of Development Economics
Maternal group participation and child nutritional status in Peru
2017
Using data from the Peruvian sample of the Young Lives study, this paper investigates the association between maternal group participation and child nutritional status at the ages of 1 and 5 years. This study finds that the relationship between child nutrition and maternal group participation depends on the level of maternal education. In fact, maternal […]
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JournalPublic Health Nutrition
Effects of lipid-based nutrient supplements v. micronutrient powders on nutritional and developmental outcomes among Peruvian infants
2017
The objective of this article is to determine the effects of lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS) on children’s Hb, linear growth and development, compared with supplementation with micronutrient powder (MNP). Regarding its design, the study was a two-arm parallel-group randomized controlled trial, where participants received either LNS or MNP for daily consumption during 6 months. Supplements […]
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JournalJournal of Population Research
Is education a risk factor or social vaccine against HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa? The effect of schooling across public health periods
2017
Early in the 30-year HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, epidemiological studies identified formal education attainment as a risk factor: educated Sub-Saharan Africans had a higher risk of contracting HIV/AIDS than their less educated peers. Later demographic research reported that by the mid-1990s the education effect had reversed, and education began to function as a social […]
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JournalDemography
The population education transition curve: education gradients across population exposure to new health risks
2017
The salutary effect of formal education on health-risk behaviors and mortality is extensively documented: ceteris paribus, greater educational attainment leads to healthier lives and longevity. Even though the epidemiological evidence has strongly indicated formal education as a leading “social vaccine,” there is intermittent reporting of counter-education gradients for health-risk behavior and associated outcomes for certain […]
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JournalEconomics & Human Biology
The structural relationship between early nutrition, cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills in four developing countries
2017
The author provides evidence about how skills are acquired during childhood. Early height is found to have an effect on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. The effect of early height on cognitive skills more than doubles that for non-cognitive skills. The impact of early height on non-cognitive skills is indirect.
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The returns to health for peruvian urban adults by gender, age, and across the wage distribution
Wealth from health: linking social investments to earnings in Latin America2000, Martin Valdivia,
This chapter analyzes the determinants of health status for urban adults in Peru and estimates the impact of health status on earnings
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Incidencia de la lactancia e intervalo de nacimiento sobre la mortalidad infantil en el Perú rural
Salud, productividad y pobreza: teoría, método y aplicaciones al caso peruano2000, ,
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Evolución de la equidad en el acceso a servicios de salud: Perú 1994-1997
Salud, equidad y pobreza en el Perú: teoría y nuevas evidencias2002Martin Valdivia,
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Evaluation of a school breakfast program in Peru
Nutrition, health, and child development1998, Santiago Cueto,
The methods and main findings from two studies in Huaraz in one of the five departments targeted for assessing the educational and nutritional impact of the school breakfast program.
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Status in school of peruvian children severely malnourished in infancy
Behavioral effects of energy and protein deficits1985, Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui, ,
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Projects
News
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Opinion Article, GRADE frente al COVID-19, Media GRADE
Were we condemned to the pandemic debacle?, by Miguel Jaramillo and Kristian Lopez Vargas
May 2, 2021 Health and nutrition
Was Peru condemned to have so many deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic? How do we compare to other countries? How much of this debacle is explained by the strategy followed, and how much by our social indicators and the dire situation of our health system? Read the new op-ed for El Comercio by Miguel Jaramillo, GRADE’s […]
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Rodrigo Rivarola’s project won the SEPIA XIX Grant Competition for Young Researchers
February 12, 2021 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, Health and nutrition
Felicitamos a Rodrigo Rivarola, asistente de investigación de GRADE, cuyo proyecto resultó ganador en el Concurso de Becas para Jóvenes Investigadores SEPIA XIX del Seminario Permanente de Investigación Agraria – SEPIA. Categoría: Sistemas alimentarios y agricultura familiar Título: Sistemas alimentarios y articulación urbano-rural. Cambios en los patrones de consumo y posibles efectos en salud Autor: […]
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Media GRADE, Comment, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo via BBC Mundo: factors that explain why confinement measures do not prevent Peru from being the second country in Latin America with the most cases of COVID-19
May 22, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
Hugo Ñopo is one of the experts who discusses five factors that explain why confinement measures do not prevent Peru from being the second country in Latin America with the most cases of the coronavirus. One of the problems is informality, which prevented the social distance from being maximized: “We are talking about households where monetary income […]
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Media GRADE, Comment, GRADE frente al COVID-19
The Guardian interviews Eduardo Zegarra about contagions in wholesale markets in Lima
May 17, 2020 Health and nutrition
“Markets were probably the biggest vector of infection which is why Peru’s quarantine did not work as it should have”. The Guardian interviews our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, for an article on contagions in wholesale markets in four Latin American cities: Lima, São Paulo, Mexico City and Bogotá.
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Media GRADE, Opinion Article, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Google data shows us that quarantine policies are working, by Hugo Ñopo and Nelly Luna
April 13, 2020 State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
Using the cell phone location information reported by Google, Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, and Nelly Luna, general editor at Ojo Público, analyze how well the quarantine policies are working to reduce the mobilization of people in public spaces. Preliminary evidence from the data suggests that quarantine restrictions, including the gender separation policy, reduced outflows […]
Events
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Call: 2019 Young Lives Peru’s Methodological Workshop
03/04/2019 → 05/04/2019 Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
Do you want to learn the methods and data of the largest longitudinal study currently carried out in Peru? Apply until March 22 to the 2019 Young Lives Peru’s Methodological Workshop. The Workshop will take place from April 3 to 5, 2019. Thanks to the Old Dart Foundation, the 20 selected will join the Workshop at no cost. In […]
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Santiago Cueto shared the work of Young Lives Peru at the USIL II International Congress of Psychological Evaluation
23/11/2018 Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (Av. la Fontana 550, La Molina) Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
Our Executive Director and Young Lives Peru Country Coordinator, Santiago Cueto, presented “Opportunities and educational trajectories of two cohorts of students in Peru” at the University San Ignacio de Loyola II International Congress of Psychological Evaluation. You may download Santiago’s presentation here.
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Presentation: What have we learned from the longitudinal study Young Lives Peru? Summary of findings
14/06/2018 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Education and learning, Health and nutrition
Niños del Milenio, known internationally as Young Lives, will share the synthesis of its findings in Peru. “What have we learned from the longitudinal study Young Lives in Peru?” will be held on Thursday, June 14. The findings will be published in a report that covers the following chapters: “Changes in living standards and the […]
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GRADE’s International Conference ‘Territories and Development in Peru’
05/06/2018 → 06/06/2018 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) 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 equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
GRADE’s International Conference on Territories and Development in Peru was held on 5-6 June, 2018. In this event we shared the findings of a research program that we have carried out over the last three years, due to the agreement between GRADE and the Think Tank Initiative managed by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Through this research program, […]
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GRADE supported the 1st HSG Latin America Pre-Conference on Health Systems Research
14/11/2017 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Hotel José Antonio (Av. 28 de Julio 398, Miraflores) Health and nutrition
On the way to the Health Systems Global 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, to be held on October 2018, the 1st HSG Latin America Research Pre-Conference on Health Systems took place on November 14, 2017, in Lima. GRADE was one of the sponsors. During the event, researchers and policy makers shared and discussed studies on relevant experiences […]
- 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
