Alan Sánchez Jiménez
Senior Researcher
PhD in Economics - University of Oxford
asanchez@grade.org.pe
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 Development (GRADE). Between 2012 and 2023, he was a Senior Researcher for the Young Lives Study and a Visiting Resarcher at ODID. Previously, he was an Economic Research Specialist in the Economic Research Division of the Central Bank of Peru and taught courses on quantitative methods for impact evaluation and social development policies. His areas of interest include impact evaluation, economics of education, health economics, labor economics, and behavioral economics. He is particularly interested in measuring the causes and consequences of accumulating human capital throughout the life cycle, evaluating public programs through experimental and quasi-experimental methodology, and survey design.
Publications
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El impacto de JUNTOS en las habilidades cognitivas fundamentales: ¿Importa la edad de incorporación del niño o niña al programa?
2023 Douglas Scott, Jennifer López, Alan Sanchez, Jere Behrman
Using longitudinal data from Young Lives (NdM for its acronym in Spanish) sibling pairs, we explore the importance of the age of initial exposure to the JUNTOS programme on the development of a set of key cognitive skills. Younger siblings who benefit from JUNTOS from an early age achieve significant improvements in inhibitory control skills – […]
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JournalFood Policy
Employment and wage effects of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes and front-of-package warning label regulations on the food and beverage industry: Evidence from Peru
2023 Juan Jose Diaz, Alan Sanchez, Francisco Diez-Canseco, Jaime Miranda, Barry M. Popkin
Peru increased its sugar-sweetened beverage tax by 8 percentage points (from 17% to 25%) in 2018 and in 2019 imposed front-of-package warning labels on processed and ultra-processed foods and beverages high in sugar, saturated fats, and sodium or containing trans fats. We assess the pre-COVID-19 impacts of these two policies on aggregate formal employment and […]
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How early nutrition and foundational cognitive skills interconnect? Evidence from two developing countries
2022 Alan Sanchez, Marta Favara, Margaret Sheridan, Jere R. Behrman
We use unique data collected in Ethiopia and Peru as part of the Young Lives Study to investigate the relationship between early undernutrition and four foundational cognitive skills, the first two of which measure executive functioning: working memory, inhibitory control, long-term memory, and implicit learning. We exploit the rich longitudinal data available to control for […]
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How early nutrition and foundational cognitive skills interconnect? Evidence from two developing countries
2022 Alan Sanchez, Marta Favara, Margaret Sheridan, Jere R. Behrman
While the long-term consequences of early stunting on educational attainment and on school achievement tests are well-known, there is scarce evidence about the specific mechanisms through which early stunting leads to poorer educational outcomes, especially in LMIC contexts. We use unique data collected in Ethiopia and Peru as part of the Young Lives to investigate […]
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JournalInternational Journal of Obesity
School environments and obesity: A systematic review of interventions and policies among school-age students in Latin America and the Caribbean
2022 María Jesús Vega-Salas, Claudia Murray, Richard Nunes, Alessandra Hidalgo-Arestegui, Katherine Curi-Quinto, Mary E. Penny, Santiago Cueto, Julie Anne Lovegrove, Alan Sanchez, Karani Santhanakrishnan Vimaleswaran
The rapid rise in obesity rates among school children in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) could have a direct impact on the region’s physical and mental health, disability, and mortality. This review presents the available interventions likely to reduce, mitigate and/or prevent obesity among school children in LAC by modifying the food and built […]
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Productividad y tratados de libre comercio a nivel de empresas en Perú
2014 Nikita Céspedes, Maria E. Aquije, Alan Sanchez, Rafael Vera-Tudela
We study the empirical relationship between free trade agreement and productivity in Peru by using a pseudo experimental model. Two productivity indicators, which are measured at the firm level are considered: labor productivity and total factor productivity. We find that firms involved in international free trade either as exporters and / or importers have systematically […]
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The structural relationship between nutrition, cognitive and non-cognitive skills: evidence from four developing countries
2013 Alan Sanchez
Sánchez studies the way in which cognitive and non-cognitive skills are simultaneously acquired in the transition from childhood to adolescence using longitudinal data from four countries: Peru, India, Vietnam and Ethiopia.
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Los efectos de choques transitorios en resultados de largo plazo: efectos adversos del clima en la acumulación de capital humano en los Andes Peruanos
2012 Diether Beuermann, Alan Sanchez
El efecto de largo plazo de la exposición a eventos de frio inusual en los Andes Peruanos durante etapas tempranas del ciclo de vida sobre los ingresos, educación y una serie de dimensiones de bienestar alcanzados en la etapa adulta.
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Heterogeneity of total factor productivity across Latin American countries: evidence from manufacturing firms
2012 Daniel Kapp, Alan Sanchez
We use a firm production function approach to generate estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity in the manufacturing sector for a group of Latin American countries.
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Early nutrition and cognition in Peru: A within-siblings investigation
2011 Alan Sanchez
This paper examines the causal link between early childhood nutrition and cognition, applying instrumental variables to sibling-differences for a sample of pre-school aged Peruvian children.
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JournalRevista Económica, Sociedad y Estadística
Relación entre embarazo adolescente y maternidad adolescente y resultados educativos y laborales: una aproximación a partir de datos de la ENDES
2018 Alan Sanchez
The present study has three objectives. First, to document the prevalence of teenage pregnancy at the national level, by area of residence, natural region and by department between 2012 and 2017. Second, to measure the association between teenage motherhood and educational and labour outcomes in the short term (between the ages of 15 and 19) […]
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JournalReview of Development Economics
Psychosocial status and cognitive achievement in Peru
2018 Ingo Outes, Alan Sanchez, Oswaldo Molina
This paper assesses the importance of psychosocial status in the accumulation of cognitive skills during the transition from mid to late childhood. The authors use longitudinal data from a cohort of 700 Peruvian children drawn from a very rich dataset, the Young Lives Survey, to test the impact of children’s perception of respect at the […]
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JournalWorld Development
Accessing higher education in developing countries: Panel data analysis from India, Peru, and Vietnam
Alan Sanchez, Abhijeet Singh
Researchers use unique individual-level panel data from India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru, and Vietnam on a cohort of individuals surveyed from the age of 8 years to 19 years to study factors affecting enrolment in higher education in these middle-income countries. We document (a) that similar to nationally representative data, the proportion having accessed higher education at this […]
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JournalEconomics & Human Biology
The structural relationship between early nutrition, cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills in four developing countries
2017 Alan Sanchez
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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Journal IZA Journal of Labor & Development
Psychosocial competencies and risky behaviours in Peru
2017 Marta Favara, Alan Sanchez
The authors use a unique longitudinal dataset from Peru to investigate the relationship between psychosocial competencies related to the concepts of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and aspirations, and a number of risky behaviours at a crucial transition period between adolescence and early adulthood. First of all, they document a high prevalence of risky behaviours with 1 out of […]
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Selected Publications
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Young Lives, interrupted: Short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in low- and middle-income countries
2022 Marta Favara, Richard Freund, Catherine Porter, Alan Sanchez, Douglass Scott
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on anxiety and depression symptoms of young people in the global south: Evidence from a four-country cohort study
2021 Alan Sanchez, Catherine Porter, Marta Favara, Annina Hittmeyer, Douglas Scott, Michelle G Craske, Revathi Ellanki, Tassew Woldehanna, Le Thuc Duc, Alan Stein
