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 BookMeasuring women’s economic empowerment: Lessons from South America
Understanding the Role of the Couple in Key Decisions and Actions of the Female Entrepreneur in Peru
2017 Martin Valdivia
For this study, the author analyzed two variants of the question about the extent to which women evidence agency: women’s participation in making key business decisions and men’s participation in carrying out household chores in urban Peru. The objective of the analysis was to understand in a better way the relationship between women entrepreneurs and their […]
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Urbanization Patterns, Social Interactions and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay
2017 Alberto Chong, Gianmarco León, Vivian Roza, Martin Valdivia, Gabriela Vega
Researchers use a field experiment to evaluate the impact of two informational get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaigns to boost female electoral participation in Paraguay. They find that public rallies have no effect either on registration or on voter turnout in the 2013 presidential elections. However, households that received door-to-door (D2D) treatment are 4.6 percentage points more likely to vote. […]
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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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JournalHealth Affairs
Assessing Latin America’s Progress Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage
2015 Adam Wagstaff, Tania Dmytraczenko, Gisele Almeida, Leander Buisman, Patrick Hoang-Vu Eozenou, Caryn Bredenkamp, James A. Cercone, Daniel Maceira, Silvia Molina, Guillermo Paraje, Fernando Ruiz, Flavia Sarti, John Scott, Martin Valdivia, Heitor Werneck
Two commonly used metrics for assessing progress toward universal health coverage involve assessing citizens’ rights to health care and counting the number of people who are in a financial protection scheme that safeguards them from high health care payments. On these metrics most countries in Latin America have already “reached” universal health coverage. Neither metric […]
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JournalJournal of Development Economics
Business training plus for female entrepreneurship? Short and medium-term experimental evidence from Peru
2015 Martin Valdivia
With millions of women around the developing world thrown into self-employment but with low productivity, increasing the profitability of their businesses is highly relevant for poverty reduction and gender equity. This study evaluates the impacts of a BDS program serving female microentrepreneurs in Lima using an experimental design, that included two treatment groups: One received […]
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Acerca de la magnitud de la inequidad en salud en el Perú
2002 Martin Valdivia
Se muestra que la magnitud de las inequidades en salud y el uso de servicios de salud en el Perú es muy grande. La contribución del análisis empírico al abordaje de estos temas tiene dos componentes fundamentales.
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Income smoothing over the life cycle: family living arrangements and the welfare of peruvian households
2000 Martin Valdivia
Se presentan evidencias que indican que los hogares peruanos no suavizan consumo a lo largo del ciclo de vida a través del típico mecanismo de ahorro-desahorro.
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Household and individual decision-making over the life cycle: a first look at the evidence from peruvian cohorts
2000 Martin Valdivia
We identify stylized facts about the implications of these changes at the micro level through the use of pseudo-panels from household-level data for Peru.
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Morbilidad autoreportada y los retornos a la salud para los varones urbanos en el Perú: enfermedad vs. incapacidad
2000 Martin Valdivia, Edmundo Murrugarra
Evidencia sobre los determinantes de salud para varones adultos de zonas urbanas y sus efectos en la productividad, usando dos medidas de morbilidad autoreportadas: el número de días de enfermedad y de incapacidad.
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The returns to health for peruvian urban adults: differentials across gender. The life cycle and the wage distribution
1999 Martin Valdivia, Edmundo Murrugarra
This report shows evidence about determinants of health status for urban adults and their effects on productivity.
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JournalPretextos
El sector agrario ante el proceso de liberalización: posibilidades y limitaciones en una economía de mercado
1993 Javier Escobal, Martin Valdivia
This article is divided into three sections. The first section summarizes the main agricultural policies implemented since the beginning of the liberalization program. The second section describes the performance of the agricultural sector during 1992, showing the worrisome situation of the sector, regardless of the indicator chosen. Then, in the same section, the conceptual framework […]
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JournalThe North American Journal of Economics and Finance
Mexican agriculture in a economy-wide policy: latitude for special treatment
1992 Terry Roe, Martin Valdivia
The paper analyzes the role of the agricultural sector in the process of liberalization of the Mexican economy.
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JournalApuntes
Las alternativas de re-estructuración empresarial en la agricultura de la costa peruana
1987 Martin Valdivia
Se analiza tres de las alternativas de reestructuración empresarial de las cooperativas de la costa peruana, incidiendo en sus posibilidades para solucionar los problemas internos de esta modalidad asociativa.
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Projects
- Conectando las comunidades rurales para el desarrollo: escudriñando sobre los impactos del programaNovember 2007 - November 2008
- Oficina Regional de la Red de Políticas Económicas y PobrezaNovember 2007 - October 2009
- Propuesta de diseño de la evaluación de impacto y monitoreo del proyecto “Tierras y Desarrollo Agrario” (Pro-Tierras-DA)July 2007
- Financing health and social protection services in Latin AmericaJune 2007
- Evaluación ex post del componente de transferencia de tecnología agropecuaria del programa de modernización de los servicios agropecuarios (PROMSA) en el EcuadorMay 2007
- Evaluación de Impacto Económico, Social, Ambiental e Institucional del Programa de Caminos RuralesAugust 2006
- Measuring trust in poor communitiesJanuary 2006
- Identifying and characterizing the target population at the area of influence of the Desarrollo Rural de la Sierra projectOctober 2005
- Race, ethnicity, poverty, inequality and health in PeruSeptember 2005
- Institutional Change in Health Sector and the Millenium Development GoalsSeptember 2005
Media
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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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