Poverty and Equity
The researchers in this area of GRADE develop methodologies for conducting research into the multi-disciplinary causes and characteristics of the mechanisms that sustain poverty , inequality and exclusion, as well as studies to identify opportunities for change.
Senior Researchers
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Vanessa Rojas Arangoitia
PhD en - Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Vanessa holds a PhD in Sociology from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. She has a degree in Anthropology and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Her work has focused on the anthropology of education and childhood, addressing issues of educational transitions, child welfare, educational quality and power relations. During 2012, she […]
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Martín Benavides Abanto (on leave)
PhD en Sociology - Pennsylvania State University
Martín Benavides has a PhD in Sociology from Pennsylvania State University where he also attained a Master’s Degree in Education Policy. He has a degree in Sociology and a BA in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and has been a visiting student on issues of social mobility and inequality at Nuffield College […]
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Juan José Díaz Noziglia
PhD en Economics - University of Maryland
Juan José Díaz has a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. His interests include the labor economy and evaluating social, educational, health and development programs.
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Javier Escobal D`Angelo
PhD en Economic Development - Wageningen University
Javier holds a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, and a Master’s degree from New York University, where he also carried out doctoral studies in Economics. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. He is also Co-Researcher in the Young Lives/Niños del Milenio longitudinal study, which follows more than 2000 children during the […]
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Gabriela Guerrero Barnechea
PhD en Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
Gabriela Guerrero has a PhD in Educational Sciences from the KU Leuven in Belgium and a Master’s Degree in Development Studies with a major in Public Policy from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She is currently a […]
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Miguel Jaramillo Baanante
PhD en History - University of California
Miguel Jaramillo has a degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He completed his graduate studies in Economics and History at the University of California, where he received a PhD in History. His areas of interests are labor economics, social policy and institutional analysis. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. […]
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Juan León Jara-Almonte
PhD en - Pennsylvania State University
Juan has a PhD in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education from Pennsylvania State University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with mention in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE. His research interests are inequality in education, intercultural bilingual education, early […]
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Alan Sánchez Jiménez
PhD en Economics - University of Oxford
Alan has a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. He also holds a master degree in Economics for Development from Oxford. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE, a Senior Researcher at Young Lives Peru, and a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Department of International Development. He teaches on quantitative methodologies for impact […]
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Martín Valdivia Huaringa
PhD en Applied Economics - University of Minnesota
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 […]
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Máximo Torero Cullen (de licencia)
PhD en Economics - University of California, Los Angeles
Maximo received a PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Economics and held a postdoctoral fellow position at the UCLA Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR). Currently, he is the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Prior to joining FAO, he was the World Bank Group Executive Director for […]
Adjunct Researchers
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Claudia Sugimaru Arakaki
Máster en Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
Claudia holds a Master’s degree in Educational Sciences from KU Leuven in Belgium and a degree in Psychology with a major in Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Currently, she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE.
External Consultants
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Paulo César Carrasco Fernández
Degree en - Pedro Ruíz Gallo National University
Paulo holds a Degree in Sociology from the National University Pedro Ruiz Gallo in Lambayeque and is a member of the Professional Board of Sociologists in Peru (Colegio de Sociólogos del Perú). Currently he is a Field Supervisor of the Childhood, Violence and Development Project funded by Bernard van Leer Foundation.
Project Support Staff
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Mónica Lizama Egoavil
Degree en - National Agrarian University
Mónica studied Statistical and Computer Science Engineer at the National University Agrarian La Molina. Currently she is the Data Manager for Young Lives in Peru. Before joining Young Lives, Mónica worked as a statistics assistant at the Peruvian National Institute of Statistics (INEI) and the International Nutrition Institute (IIN).
External Affiliated Researchers
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Jere R. Behrman
Ph.D. en - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Behrman is a leading international researcher in empirical microeconomics, with emphasis on developing economies. He is also a Research Associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center. His research interests include empirical microeconomics, labor economics, human resources (early childhood development, education, health, nutrition), project evaluation, economic demography, incentive systems and household behaviors. The unifying dimension of […]
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Marta Favara
PhD en - University of Essex
Marta is a Senior Researcher at the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford where she is leading the quantitative research agenda of Young Lives since 2015. She is also a Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin School Programme on African Governance and an IZA Research Affiliate. Before joining Young Lives, she […]
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Carmen Ponce San Román
PhD en Economics - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Carmen Ponce is an External Affiliated Researcher at GRADE and is currently affiliated as Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University (Toronto, Canada). She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a MSc. In Economics from the University of Texas […]
Publications
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Diseño y métodos del estudio: resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Cuarta ronda de encuestas en el Perú
2015
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Electrification and Educational Outcomes in Rural Peru
2015 Rosamaría Dasso, Fernando Fernandez, Hugo Ñopo
The authors study the effects of electrification on educational outcomes in Peru by taking advantage of a program that rapidly increased electricity coverage in rural areas. Using household survey panel data from 2007-2010, we document that: i) girls living in treated districts are more likely to be enrolled in school, and this effect is larger […]
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Urgency and possibility: first initiative of comparative data on child development in Latin America
2015 Aimee Verdisco, Santiago Cueto, Jennelle Thompson, Oliver Neuschmidt
For many children, the circumstances of their birth and earliest years have lifelong consequences. Where and to whom a child is born can predict her economic and social outcomes later in life. Children born to parents who invest emotional and economic resources in their development tend to become healthy and productive adults, passing on the […]
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JournalInternational Journal of Educational Development
Inequality in school resources and academic achievement: Evidence from Peru
2015 Gianmarco León, Martin Valdivia
This paper goes further in the discussion on the determinants of school attainment in developing countries. To properly estimate the effects of school resources on academic achievement, we need to take into account the large geographical inequalities in the distribution of school resources and the supply constraints faced by students living in poor areas. We […]
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JournalEnvironment and Development Economics
Extractive industries and local development in the Peruvian Highlands
2015 Elisa Ticci, Javier Escobal
During the last 20 years, the mining sector in Peru has been experiencing sustained growth. Using census, administrative, nationally and regionally representative data we compare districts in the Peruvian Highlands with a recent mining development with suitable counterfactuals. We find that the new mining activities attract migration inflows, and have some positive effects over educational […]
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Household and individual decision-making over the life cycle: a first look at the evidence from peruvian cohorts
2000Martin 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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¿Cómo enfrentar una geografía adversa?: el rol de los activos públicos y privados
2000Javier Escobal, Maximo Torero,
Este trabajo trata de responder qué rol juegan las variables geográficas, tanto naturales como antropogénicas, al explicarse las diferencias de gasto per cápita entre las diversas regiones del Perú.
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Desigualdad del ingreso y del gasto en el Perú antes y después de las reformas estructurales
1999Juan Jose Diaz,
Con información de encuestas de hogares, se encuentra que la desigualdad del ingreso se redujo en el periodo posterior al inicio de las reformas estructurales en 1991, continuando una tendencia que se observa desde 1971.
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Mujer, empleo y pobreza: la experiencia reciente de los países andinos
1999, ,
La contribución del efecto empleo y efecto ingresos al crecimiento del ingreso familiar en los países andinos y la contribución relativa de la mujer a dicho crecimiento, especialmente en los hogares pobres.
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Los activos de los pobres en el Perú
1998Javier Escobal, Maximo Torero,
Tanto la distribución del ingreso como los niveles de pobreza han registrado importantes modificaciones a lo largo de las últimas cuatro décadas en el Perú. .
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Projects
News
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INEI: Pobreza disminuye a un menor ritmo
April 24, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Usos de las evaluaciones de rendimiento escolar en el Perú: entrevista a Santiago Cueto, José Antonio Calderón (DRE Puno) y Pilar Saavedra (DRE San Martín) en Radio Exitosa
March 27, 2015 Education and learning, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Usos de las evaluaciones de rendimiento escolar en el Perú: entrevista a Pedro Ravela y César Guadalupe en RPP
March 26, 2015 Education and learning, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Usos de las evaluaciones de rendimiento escolar en el Perú: Afirman que es necesario generar una cultura de evaluación para que el Perú alcance la calidad educativa
March 26, 2015 Education and learning, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Se presentaron primeros resultados de ronda 4 de encuestas del estudio Niños del Milenio, de GRADE
March 20, 2015 Education and learning, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
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Events
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Seleccionados residentes y no residentes de Lima Metropolitana participarán en taller del uso de base de datos de Niños del Milenio
20/02/2014 → 21/02/2014 8:45 am - 5:15 pm Auditorio de GRADE Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
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Investigadores de GRADE participarán en el XXIV Seminario Anual CIES 2013
10/12/2013 → 12/12/2013 11:30 am Double Tree El Pardo Hotel (Calle Independencia 141, Miraflores) Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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Santiago Cueto participará en la II Semana de la Inclusión Social organizada por el MIDIS
24/10/2013 3:30 pm Hotel Los Delfines Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
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Gerardo Damonte y Manuel Glave participarán en la 4ta Escuela de Verano DesiguALdades.net 2013: La Globalización de la Naturaleza y Desigualdades Sociales
21/10/2013 → 25/10/2013 CCPUCP (Av. Camino Real 1075, San Isidro) Poverty and equality
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Aprendizaje, Oportunidades en la vida e Inequidad: Niños del Milenio en la 12ava Conferencia Internacional de UKFIET
10/08/2013 UKFIET, Reino Unido Education and learning, Poverty and equality
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- Education and Learning
- Employment, Productivity and Innovation
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Ethnicity, Gender and Citizenship
- Methodologies for Research and Evaluation of Policy and Programmes
- Poverty and Equity
- Natural Resources, Extractive Industries and Social Conflict
- State Reform and Public Institutions
- Health and Nutrition
- Urbanization and Sustainable Cities
