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Monday, 24 de March de 2025GRADE Conversa 24: Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health, featuring Vanessa Rojas
Covid-19 hit Peru hard and youth were a highly affected group. In 2023, the qualitative component of Young Lives Longitudinal Study collected the voices of youth participants about their well-being and mental health in a post-conflict and pandemic context. Listen to a new episode of our podcast GRADE Conversa featuring Vanessa Rojas, Senior Researcher at […]
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Tuesday, 18 de March de 2025
The long shadow of conflict on human capital: intergenerational evidence from Peru
This paper estimates the intergenerational impacts of mothers’ exposure to the 1980–2000 Peruvian civil conflict on their children’s socio-emotional skills development. We combine longitudinal data, which measures skills across a child’s life, with historical geo-located conflict data. Exploiting spatial and temporal variation in conflict episodes, we find that mothers’ exposure to conflict has adverse intergenerational […]
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Friday, 7 de March de 2025
#8M Día Internacional de la Mujer 2025: Publicaciones destacadas
En nuestra sociedad aún operan diversos mecanismos que han perpetuado inequidades sociales basadas en las diferencias de género y expresadas en las desiguales oportunidades de desarrollo que tienen hombres y mujeres en el Perú. Esta forma de desigualdad tiene raíces estructurales que no solo se manifiestan en los planos sociales y económicos, sino también en […]
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Friday, 28 de February de 2025
Young Lives attrition report: round 7
Over more than 20 years, Young Lives has followed two cohorts born seven years apart (Favara et al. 2021). This technical note documents the attrition rates from the seventh round of the Young Lives survey carried out in Ethiopia, India (the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) and Peru in 2023–24, when the Younger Cohort […]
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Tuesday, 3 de December de 2024
GRADE researchers join the XXXV Annual CIES 2024 Research Seminar
Del 11 al 13 de diciembre, investigadoras e investigadores de GRADE serán expositores, comentaristas y moderadores en el XXXV Seminario Anual de Investigación CIES 2024. El evento, organizado por el Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES) de manera híbrida, abordará el tema “Retos y perspectivas del Perú y América Latina: inversión, sostenibilidad y cohesión social”. A continuación, […]
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Monday, 2 de December de 2024
Panorama de los programas de visitas domiciliarias en América Latina y el Caribe
The Inter-American Dialogue and UNICEF present this study as a contribution to strengthening the early childhood care and development agenda in the region. Through a cross-sectional analysis and comparison of the design and implementation of home visiting programmes in ten countries in the region, the study seeks to provide a characterisation of these programmes, highlighting […]
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Monday, 25 de November de 2024
25N: Some recent titles that address the issue of violence against women
In Peru, a little more than half of women (53.8%) were victims of psychological, physical or sexual violence by their partner at some time, according to the DHS 2023. Despite progress, the evidence to address this problem is still insufficient in our country. Several studies by our researchers have aimed to explore the multiple dimensions […]
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Wednesday, 30 de October de 2024
The effects of the covid-19 pandemic on the subjective well-being of rural and urban young people in Peru
This report is a summary of a longer report published in Spanish and available on the Niños del Milenio website here. Niños del Milenio/Young Lives has followed children through to young adulthood in Peru, including understanding how their perceptions of their well-being have changed over time. Using qualitative data from 2 birth cohorts, aged 21- 22 […]
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Friday, 25 de October de 2024
Wilson Hernández: “The conviction to leave the criminal life is often not natural, but activated by triggers”
“The conviction to leave the criminal life is often not natural, but is usually activated by triggers. According to studies, one may be getting a stable job. Another is getting married or having children and starting to think not only for oneself, but also for others. Another is taking away leisure time from teenagers in […]
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Tuesday, 15 de October de 2024
Bienestar subjetivo y covid-19 en jóvenes rurales y urbanos del Perú
Since 2007, the Young Lives in Peru study has been collecting the voices of children – today youth or young adults – regarding their perceptions of well-being throughout the life cycle. In recent years, and as a consequence of the pandemic, youth – in both rural and urban areas – have faced extraordinary challenges in […]
