Health and Nutrition
GRADE research in this area is focused on the analysis of issues such as the state of health and nutrition in Peru, how this related to social exclusion, socio-economic status and growth, as well as how it impacts on the ability of individuals and families to develop different capacities.
Senior Researchers
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Lorena Alcázar Valdivia
PhD en Economics - Washington University
Lorena has a BA in Economics from the Pacific University in Peru, a Master’s Degree in Political and International Economy from the Kiel Institute of World Economics, and a PhD in Economics from Washington University. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE). Previously, she served as Vice-President […]
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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 […]
Research Assistants
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Dianela Espinoza Fernández
BA en -
Dianela is an economist from the University of Piura. At GRADE, she supports Alan Sanchez in the “Young Lives at Work” and “Nutrition, Lifestyle, Genes and Metabolome – A Biosocial Cohort Study of Obesity and its Consequences for Non-Communicable Diseases in Young Adults from Urban Peru” projects.
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 […]
Publications
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A Drop of Love? Rainfall Shocks and Spousal Abuse: Evidence from Rural Peru
2020 Juan Jose Diaz, Víctor Saldarriaga
The authors investigate whether the exposure to rainfall shocks affects the experience of physical intimate partner violence by women in rural areas of the Peruvian Andes. Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys over the period 2005-2014, they track changes in women’s experience of physical IPV following the exposure to rainfall shocks during the […]
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JournalEconomic Development and Cultural Change
Impact of Juntos Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Nutritional and Cognitive Outcomes in Peru: Comparison Between Younger and Older Initial Exposure
2020 Alan Sanchez, Guido Melendez, Jere Behrman
Researchers evaluate whether the Juntos conditional cash transfer program in Peru has a larger effect on children who benefited initially from the program during the first 4 years of life compared with those children who benefited initially between ages 5 and 8. The former group was exposed during early-life sensitive periods, received the program for […]
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(Un)Conditional Love in the Time of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Effect of the Peruvian JUNTOS Program on Spousal Abuse
2020 Juan Jose Diaz, Víctor Saldarriaga
Cash Transfer programs often target women as the recipient of the money. Unintentionally, this flow of unearned income may reduce spousal abuse. Researchers investigate this possibility by assessing the Peruvian JUNTOS program. They exploit the staggered timing in the rollout of the program across municipalities along with its eligibility rule for determining participation to perform a difference-in-differences […]
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JournalReview of Development Studies
Understanding teenage fertility in Peru: An analysis using longitudinal data
2020 Marta Favara, Pablo Lavado, Alan Sanchez
Reducing the prevalence of teenage pregnancy remains an elusive goal for public policy in Peru. Researchers use longitudinal data from the Young Lives Study in Peru to investigate on an extensive set of early circumstances and life changes that might be the risk factors for teenage childbearing—about one out of five girls in the sample […]
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JournalHealth Economics
Encouraging use of prenatal care through conditional cash transfers: evidence from JUNTOS in Peru
2019 Juan Jose Diaz, Víctor Saldarriaga
Researchers use a difference‐in‐differences strategy to estimate the effects of JUNTOS, a conditional cash transfer program targeted to poor rural households in Peru, on use of prenatal care. Using data from the Peruvian Demographic and Health Surveys over the period 2000–2011, they find that JUNTOS increased prenatal care utilization among program‐eligible women. Even more, they […]
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Psychometric characteristics of cognitive development and achievement instruments in Round 2 of Young Lives
2009, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Santiago Cueto,
Young Lives (YL) is a long-term international research project about childhood poverty based at the University of Oxford that integrates cutting edge research with local, national
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Trade liberalisation and child welfare: assessing the impact of a free trade agreement between Peru and the USA
2007Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce,
Peru is in the process of negotiating a free trade agreement with the USA which would eliminate trade concessions on most goods and serv
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Etnicidad, antecedentes linguisticos y la salud materno infantil en el Perú
2007Martin Valdivia,
El papel de los antecedentes lingüísticos y la etnicidad como determinantes de las desigualdades en salud materno infantil en el Perú, gracias a los datos sobre la lengua materna de los ancestros de la mujer entrevistada incluidos en la ronda 2005 de la ENDES.
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Does having a newborn child affect income diversification opportunities?: evidence from the peruvian young lives study
2006Javier Escobal, , , ,
The ability of households to diversify their income sources is strongly related to their capacity to cope in times of pressure, such as during economic crises.
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La liberación del comercio y el bienestar de la infancia: evaluando el impacto del Acuerdo de Libre Comercio entre Perú y Estados Unidos
2006Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce,
Una dimensión poco explorada de uno de los temas más importantes de la agenda nacional actual: el probable impacto que tendría el Tratado de Libre Comercio entre el Perú y los Estados Unidos en los niños peruanos.
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JournalEconomics & Human Biology
The structural relationship between early nutrition, cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills in four developing countries
2017
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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JournalCuaderno de Difusión
Políticas de seguridad alimentaria y protección de la agricultura familiar en la estrategia regional de seguridad alimentaria en la región Puno
2016
This research seeks to analyze the elaboration process of the Regional Food Security Strategy (ERSA) of Puno, as well as its formal content, in order to contrast it with the Voluntary Guidelines. This analysis is highly relevant in the specific case of Puno, a highland region of Peru, which presents worrying indicators of food insecurity […]
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JournalHealth Affairs
Assessing Latin America’s Progress Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage
2015, , , , , , , , , , , , , Martin Valdivia, ,
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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JournalAnales de la Facultad de Medicina
El Sistema Regional de Salud de San Martín y su política de reducción de la desnutrición infantil: aplicación en el Perú del Enfoque de Evaluación de Sistemas de Salud.
2015Miguel Jaramillo,
Chronic infant malnutrition is one of the main public health issues in Peru and in the world. The objective of the study was to determine achievements and limitations of a regional policy against chronic infant malnutrition in a Region of Peru. For the qualitative study, the authors used the Health System Assessment Approach, as promoted […]
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JournalThe Journal of Nutrition
Participation in the Juntos Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Peru Is Associated with Changes in Child Anthropometric Status but Not Language Development or School Achievement
2015Javier Escobal, Alan Sanchez,
It is unclear what effects a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program would have on child anthropometry, language development, or school achievement in the context of the nutrition transition experienced by many low- andmiddle-income countries. In this study the authors estimated the association of participation in Perus Juntos CCT with anthropometry, language development, and school achievement […]
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The returns to health for peruvian urban adults by gender, age, and across the wage distribution
Wealth from health: linking social investments to earnings in Latin America2000, Martin Valdivia,
This chapter analyzes the determinants of health status for urban adults in Peru and estimates the impact of health status on earnings
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Incidencia de la lactancia e intervalo de nacimiento sobre la mortalidad infantil en el Perú rural
Salud, productividad y pobreza: teoría, método y aplicaciones al caso peruano2000, ,
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Evolución de la equidad en el acceso a servicios de salud: Perú 1994-1997
Salud, equidad y pobreza en el Perú: teoría y nuevas evidencias2002Martin Valdivia,
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Evaluation of a school breakfast program in Peru
Nutrition, health, and child development1998, Santiago Cueto,
The methods and main findings from two studies in Huaraz in one of the five departments targeted for assessing the educational and nutritional impact of the school breakfast program.
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Status in school of peruvian children severely malnourished in infancy
Behavioral effects of energy and protein deficits1985, Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui, ,
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Projects
News
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Were we condemned to the pandemic debacle?, by Miguel Jaramillo and Kristian Lopez Vargas
May 2, 2021 Health and nutrition
Was Peru condemned to have so many deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic? How do we compare to other countries? How much of this debacle is explained by the strategy followed, and how much by our social indicators and the dire situation of our health system? Read the new op-ed for El Comercio by Miguel Jaramillo, GRADE’s […]
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Rodrigo Rivarola’s project won the SEPIA XIX Grant Competition for Young Researchers
February 12, 2021 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, Health and nutrition
Felicitamos a Rodrigo Rivarola, asistente de investigación de GRADE, cuyo proyecto resultó ganador en el Concurso de Becas para Jóvenes Investigadores SEPIA XIX del Seminario Permanente de Investigación Agraria – SEPIA. Categoría: Sistemas alimentarios y agricultura familiar Título: Sistemas alimentarios y articulación urbano-rural. Cambios en los patrones de consumo y posibles efectos en salud Autor: […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo via BBC Mundo: factors that explain why confinement measures do not prevent Peru from being the second country in Latin America with the most cases of COVID-19
May 22, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
Hugo Ñopo is one of the experts who discusses five factors that explain why confinement measures do not prevent Peru from being the second country in Latin America with the most cases of the coronavirus. One of the problems is informality, which prevented the social distance from being maximized: “We are talking about households where monetary income […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
The Guardian interviews Eduardo Zegarra about contagions in wholesale markets in Lima
May 17, 2020 Health and nutrition
“Markets were probably the biggest vector of infection which is why Peru’s quarantine did not work as it should have”. The Guardian interviews our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, for an article on contagions in wholesale markets in four Latin American cities: Lima, São Paulo, Mexico City and Bogotá.
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Google data shows us that quarantine policies are working, by Hugo Ñopo and Nelly Luna
April 13, 2020 State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
Using the cell phone location information reported by Google, Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, and Nelly Luna, general editor at Ojo Público, analyze how well the quarantine policies are working to reduce the mobilization of people in public spaces. Preliminary evidence from the data suggests that quarantine restrictions, including the gender separation policy, reduced outflows […]
Events
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Presentation: What have we learned from the longitudinal study Young Lives Peru? Summary of findings
14/06/2018 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Education and learning, Health and nutrition
Niños del Milenio, known internationally as Young Lives, will share the synthesis of its findings in Peru. “What have we learned from the longitudinal study Young Lives in Peru?” will be held on Thursday, June 14. The findings will be published in a report that covers the following chapters: “Changes in living standards and the […]
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GRADE’s International Conference ‘Territories and Development in Peru’
05/06/2018 → 06/06/2018 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
GRADE’s International Conference on Territories and Development in Peru was held on 5-6 June, 2018. In this event we shared the findings of a research program that we have carried out over the last three years, due to the agreement between GRADE and the Think Tank Initiative managed by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Through this research program, […]
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GRADE supported the 1st HSG Latin America Pre-Conference on Health Systems Research
14/11/2017 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Hotel José Antonio (Av. 28 de Julio 398, Miraflores) Health and nutrition
On the way to the Health Systems Global 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, to be held on October 2018, the 1st HSG Latin America Research Pre-Conference on Health Systems took place on November 14, 2017, in Lima. GRADE was one of the sponsors. During the event, researchers and policy makers shared and discussed studies on relevant experiences […]
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Presentaciones de investigadores de GRADE en el V Congreso Anual de la Asociación Peruana de Economía APE 2017
11/08/2017 → 12/08/2017 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Universidad de Lima Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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Santiago Cueto will discuss research findings on visual acuity and children´s educational achievement in Peru, at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
30/04/2017 12:30 pm San Antonio, Texas Education and learning, Health and nutrition
Our Research Director and Coordinator of Young Lives Peru, Santiago Cueto, will be part of the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA), in San Antonio, Texas, on April 30rd to May 1st. Cueto will discuss the research findings of the study Is visual acuity related with children´s educational achievement? Evidence from Peru, as part of the session “Inclusion of […]
- 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
