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Wednesday, 4 de February de 2026When choice matters: The asymmetric effects of precommitment implementation on healthy food choice
This paper investigates the role of precommitment in making healthy food choices, using a lab-in-the-field experiment embedded in the Young Lives longitudinal study in Peru. Leveraging the fact that participants were scheduled for a blood test and would therefore require a snack afterwards, we elicited participants’ snack choice from a predefined set. Participants were asked […]
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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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Wednesday, 16 de July de 2025
GRADE’s researchers will join the 2025 Annual Congress of the Peruvian Economic Association
Investigadores de GRADE serán expositores y comentaristas en el Congreso Anual 2025 de la Asociación Peruana de Economía (APE). El evento, organizado por Universidad Católica San Pablo, se llevará a cabo los días 08 y 09 de agosto de 2025 en la ciudad de Arequipa. En esta edición, nuestro investigador principal Miguel Jaramillo encabeza el […]
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Friday, 30 de May de 2025
Food distribution models in Latin America: Unraveling the effects of physical access on food security
This chapter examines the role of food distribution channels in shaping physical access and its impact on food security in Latin America. The authors argue that the structure of downstream food supply chains—the relative prominence of modern supermarkets, traditional markets, and intermediate local stores—plays a critical but underexplored part in determining affordability and dietary choices. […]
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Monday, 26 de May de 2025
Salud mental juvenil en crisis: Cuando la pandemia amplifica desigualdades estructurales
The covid-19 pandemic had a severe effect on the mental health of vulnerable young women in Peru, exacerbating symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress. This qualitative study, based on the lived experience approach, analyses the trajectories of two young Peruvian women – one from a rural and one from an urban context – participants in […]
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Monday, 26 de May de 2025
La pandemia y la salud mental: Un estudio basado en experiencias vividas por jóvenes peruanas vulnerables
Although mental health is recognised as a right in Peruvian public policy, there remains a paucity of evidence that addresses subjective experiences of emotional distress from the perspective of young people themselves. This research contributes to closing this gap through an in-depth qualitative approach, focusing on the voices of two young women who report mental […]
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Friday, 4 de April de 2025
Alan Sánchez and Antonio Campos joined academic events held by the University of Lancaster.
Our Senior Researcher Alan Sanchez and Adjunct Researcher Antonio Campos joined two events held last week by Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. As part of the workshop Innovations in Social Data Science: Tackling Inequality in Resource-Constrained Contexts with Novel Data and Methods, held by Lancaster University School of Mathematical Sciences, Alan presented “Measuring cognitive skills through […]
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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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Wednesday, 22 de January de 2025
Food safety certification in urban food markets: the willingness to pay for safer meat in Peru
This paper estimates consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for meat certified to be safe for human consumption in Peru. Citizens in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are increasingly concerned about the safety of food they consume. Across LMICs, urban markets remain the most important source of fresh and nutritious produce and therefore policymakers need to […]
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Wednesday, 16 de October de 2024
Eduardo Zegarra opina sobre la Inseguridad Alimentaria en el Perú
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