Martín Valdivia Huaringa
Senior Researcher
PhD in Applied Economics - University of Minnesota
jvaldivi@grade.org.pe
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 Economics, the American Journal of Political Science, among others. He is an active member of networks such the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL LAC) and Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP). He is currently researching the drivers of financial inclusion and the economic empowerment of women in urban and rural areas of Brazil, Peru and the Dominican Republic, as well as on the role of transparency and citizen participation in the fight against corruption in Peru.
Publications
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Chapter in BookEl Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar
La vulnerabilidad de los hogares rurales en tiempos de COVID-19: en búsqueda de las lecciones clave para una política de inclusión financiera
2022 Verónica Frisancho, Martin Valdivia
This essay identifies lessons learned from financial inclusion policies to understand how to mitigate the negative effects faced by rural households. This important contribution is all the more relevant given the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which the health shock shows a strong correlate in the economy.
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JournalThe European Journal of Development Research
Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Observational Study in Brazil
2022 Rafael Goldszmidt, Patrick Behr, Cesar Zucco, Anna-Katharina Lenz, Lauro Gonzalez, Martin Valdivia
This paper studies the impact of microcredit in Brazil. We use a propensity score matching on original primary data on business and personal outcomes to compare veteran clients of BNDES—Brazil’s largest government-owned development bank—to a matched sample of more recent clients. Based on administrative data as well as data from a survey of 2107 clients […]
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Can savings groups promote financial inclusion and reduce poverty / vulnerability in rural areas of Latin America and the Caribbean?
2021 Verónica Frisancho, Martin Valdivia
This document assesses the impact of the introduction of savings groups on the results of poverty, vulnerability and financial inclusion in rural areas of Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on administrative and survey records. The researchers find that the proposals are supported by the social networks that exist in rural localities, […]
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Savings Groups Reduce Vulnerability, but Have Mixed Effects on Financial Inclusion
2020 Verónica Frisancho, Martin Valdivia
This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial inclusion outcomes in rural Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on both survey and administrative records, researchers investigate the impact of savings groups after more than two years of exposure. The authors find that savings groups […]
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Savings Groups Reduce Vulnerability, but have Mixed Effects on Financial Inclusion
2020 Verónica Frisancho, Martin Valdivia
This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial inclusion outcomes in rural Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on both survey and administrative records, researchers investigate the impact of savings groups over a two year period. The authors find that savings groups channel expensive […]
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Social media instruments and the promotion of financial inclusion in peruvian rural areas
2017 Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
This study seeks to evaluate the use of short soap operas as a mechanism to promote the use of formal savings accounts among poor rural women that have been secularly excluded from healthy interactions with the formal financial sector. The authors developed a short soap opera (telenovela), named Josefa, which transmitted pro-savings messages using characters […]
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Effectiveness and Spillovers of online sex education: evidence from a randomized evaluation in Colombian public schools
2013 Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan, Martin Valdivia
En una evaluación aleatoria en Colombia, se encontró un curso en linea de salud sexual que conduce a impactos significativos en el conocimiento y actitudes de los adolescentes y, para aquellos sexualmente activos, menos ETS.
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Impact Evaluation for Policy Making: A Close Look at Latin American Countries with Weaker Research Capacities
2012 Maria Laura Alzua, Habiba Djebbari, Martin Valdivia
The study looks at the way impact evaluation studies are being used for policy making in countries in the region that are a priori considered less capable to absorb the current trend observed in other more developed countries in the region.
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Contracting the road to development: early impacts of a rural roads program
2010 Martin Valdivia
The impacts of the Peruvian rural roads program characterized by the contracting of private local firms for the rehabilitation and maint
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Formando microempresarias: impacto de la capacitación empresarial en las instituciones de microfinanzas y sus socias
2010 Martin Valdivia, Dean Karlan
Medición del impacto marginal de un componente de capacitación en gestión empresarial en un programa de servicios financieros que atiende a mujeres microempresarias peruanas vía la metodología de bancos comunales.
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JournalEn breve
Medios de comunicación, contenidos y comportamiento: algunos énfasis sobre la inclusión financiera
2014 Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
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JournalPan American Journal of Public Health
Equity in health and health care in Peru, 2004-2008
2013 Margarita Petrera, Martin Valdivia, Eduardo Jiménez, Gisele Almeida
Este estudio evalúa si las recientes tendencias económicas positivas y las políticas de salud pro-pobres han logrado mayor equidad en la salud, y explora los factores claves que explican este cambio.
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JournalReview of Economics and Statistics
Teaching entrepreneurship: impact of business training on microfinance clients and institutions
2011 Dean Karlan, Martin Valdivia
Using a randomized control trial, we measure the marginal impact of adding business training to a Peruvian group lending program for fem
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JournalEstudios Económicos
The permanent effects of recessions on child health: evidence from Peru
2010 Martin Valdivia, Jorge Aguero
Se explora el efecto permanente de las recesiones macroeconómicas sobre la salud materna e infantil en Perú. We explore the permanent effects that recessions have on health-related outcomes of mothers and children in Peru.
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JournalEconomía y Sociedad
El enfoque de género en el estudio “Planificación familiar y salud materno-infantil en el Perú: ¿una cuestión de número o de momento?”
2006 Martin Valdivia
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Acceso al crédito en las economías rurales: diferencias entre el sector formal e informal en el Perú
Perú: el problema agrario en debate - SEPIA VI1996 Martin Valdivia, Juan Pablo Silva
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Projects
- Promoviendo el liderazgo de las mujeres en pequeñas empresasNovember 2012
- Enrollment and voting campaign project for electoral participation of women in ParaguaySeptember 2012 - August 2015
- Training for development: recent progress and policy lessonsSeptember 2012 - December 2013
- Administration of the PEP-PAGE projectAugust 2012 - August 2015
- Towards universal health coverage in LAC: The Peruvian caseAugust 2012 - August 2012
- Mini-novels, financial education and savings promotionJuly 2012 - April 2014
- Ethnic-racial discrimination in health services in Guatemala: an audit study to evaluate the impacts of an intervention based on health rightsApril 2012 - March 2015
- Expansion of rural micro financing services for people with low income through community banking in ParaguayApril 2012 - June 2012
- Impact assessment as a policy instrument in Latin AmericaMay 2011 - August 2011
- Preventive measures against evasionMarch 2011 - May 2011
Media
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Por qué no un banco agrario de primer piso
November 25, 2001 Rural development and agriculture
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Sobre la pequeña agricultura
November 1, 2001 Rural development and agriculture
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Selected Publications
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Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers’ Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia
2020 Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan, Martin Valdivia
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Urbanization Patterns, Information Diffusion, and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay
2019 Alberto Chong, Gianmarco León, Vivian Roza, Martin Valdivia, Gabriela Vega
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