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Wednesday, 22 de July de 2026Do political preferences affect policy learning and uptake? EGAP Brief 86
This study examines whether political preferences shape citizens’ uptake of and learning about government programs, using Brazil’s Individual Microentrepreneur Program (MEI). MEI offers informal entrepreneurs subsidized access to social security and business-related incentives and was introduced under President Lula. The authors randomly assigned MEI-eligible informal entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro to a control group, a […]
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Tuesday, 21 de July de 2026
Cohort Profile Update: The Young Lives study
The original Young Lives cohort profile was published in 2012. It describes the study participants, the data collected in Rounds 1–3 of both the quantitative and qualitative surveys, and the attrition rates. An update was published in 2021. It describes Rounds 4 and 5 of the quantitative surveys and the data collected through three phone […]
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Thursday, 16 de July de 2026
GRADE’s researchers join the 2026 annual congress of the Peruvian Economic Association
Investigadores de GRADE serán expositores y comentaristas en el Congreso Anual 2026 de la Asociación Peruana de Economía (APE), el principal encuentro para la generación y difusión del conocimiento económico científico a nivel nacional. Este año, el evento es organizado junto con la Universidad del Pacífico y se realizará los días 22 y 23 de […]
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Monday, 1 de June de 2026
The labor market during the last five years, by Miguel Jaramillo
“The post-pandemic recovery in employment allowed for a return to pre-2020 levels, but it was driven mainly by the informal sector rather than the generation of quality jobs”. In light of the debate among technical teams during the presidential runoff, our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo writes in El Comercio about what the evidence indicates regarding […]
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Thursday, 16 de April de 2026
Young Lives Two Decades of Findings and Future Research Opportunities: Employment
This report presents the key findings emerging from over 20 years of Young Lives’ quantitative and qualitative data and research on employment, with a strong focus on women’s economic empowerment. It also highlights Young Lives’ significant contribution to related policy debates, showcases impact case studies, presents the latest trends based on preliminary analysis of Round […]
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Tuesday, 3 de March de 2026
First priority: building a competent state, by Miguel Jaramillo
“On the one hand, we do not have political parties, but rather groups with purely electoral purposes […] On the other hand, we have a state with very limited capacity to design and implement policies.” Ahead of the 2026 elections, Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the importance of the state’s institutional capacity […]
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Wednesday, 10 de December de 2025
¿Qué hemos aprendido del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio en el Perú? Nuevos hallazgos y desafíos pendientes (2018-2025)
Niños del Milenio, conocido internacionalmente como Young Lives, es una investigación de largo plazo que estudia cómo cambian la pobreza y las oportunidades de niñas, niños y jóvenes en países de ingresos bajos y medios. Durante más de dos décadas, el estudio ha seguido de cerca a dos grupos en el Perú: quienes tenían alrededor […]
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Tuesday, 2 de December de 2025
Young people seek politicians, by Miguel Jaramillo
“Clearly, young people face the worst situation in the labor market.” Our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo writes in El Comercio about the employment problems that particularly affect young people.
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Thursday, 6 de November de 2025
Rising youth unemployment: What are the risks?
“Although positive employment growth rates have been seen in the last year in particular, this recovery is not improving the situation for young people, who have suffered the most from labor market problems.” At the 2025 Annual Conference of Executives (CADE Ejecutivos), Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke with Radio Programas del Perú about […]
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Thursday, 6 de November de 2025
Training Entrepreneurs
Aid agencies and governments spend more than a billion US$ on entrepreneurship training annually. What have we learned about the effectiveness of training? We review research on entrepreneurship training. Classroom-based training remains the most popular method of training owners and managers of small firms. A meta-analysis shows that the standard training model has modestly positive […]
