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, 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 […]
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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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Entendiendo la paradoja de la maternidad adolescente en Lima Metropolitana: Un análisis de los efectos de vecindario en el 2013
2020 Selene Cueva
During the last 35 years, teenage childbearing rate in Metropolitan Lima has not decreased, despite the fact that the capital city has greater access to public services and better economic opportunities than other regions of Peru. In this paper, this apparent paradox is analyzed based on an exploratory analysis of neighborhood effects for 2013. Specifically, through […]
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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 Meléndez, Jere R. Behrman
We 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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Evolución de la equidad en salud materno-infantil en el Perú: Endes 1986, 1991-1992, 1996 y 2000
2002Martin Valdivia,
Evolución (1986-2000) de indicadores del estado de salud del niño y de la madre y de aquéllos del uso de servicios públicos de salud; grado de inequidad existente en salud; y descripción de las prácticas en salud reproductiva de las mujeres.
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El beneficio de los caminos rurales: ampliando oportunidades de ingreso para los pobres
2002Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce,
Con hogares de algunos de los distritos más pobres del Perú, se compara hogares conectados a caminos rurales rehabilitados con hogares de control escogidos, mediante técnicas de propensity score matching.
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Acerca de la magnitud de la inequidad en salud en el Perú
2002Martin 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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Desigualdades en el acceso, uso y gasto con el agua potable en América Latina y el Caribe
2001
Estudios en once países basados en encuestas de hogares de propósitos múltiples. Las respuestas establecen el tipo de acceso al agua para conocer las características socio-económicas de los hogares.
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JournalRevista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública
Efecto de un suplemento nutricional a base de lípidos en los niveles de hemoglobina e indicadores antropométricos en niños de cinco distritos de Huánuco, Perú
2015Lorena Alcazar,
This study aims to determine the effect of consumption of a lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) on hemoglobin levels, anemia and anthropometric indicators in children aged six to eleven months old in five districts in the province of Ambo in the region of Huanuco, Peru
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JournalRevista Peruana de Medicina Experimental
Impacto económico de la desnutrición crónica, aguda y global en el Perú
2013Lorena Alcazar,
Objectives. To estimate the economic impact of chronic, acute and global malnutrition in Peru. Materials and methods. This study, through an econometric model, estimated the economic impact of child malnutrition in two time horizons (incidental retrospective and prospective) during 2011, considering malnutrition-associated costs of health, education and productivity for the Peruvian economy. Information collected is […]
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JournalEconomics & Human Biology
Height in mid childhood and psychosocial competencies in late childhood: Evidence from four developing countries
2013Alan Sanchez,
We use longitudinal data from children growing up in four developing countries (Peru, India, Vietnam, Ethiopia) to study the relationship between height at the age of 7-8 and a set of psychosocial competencies measured at the age of 11-12 that are known to be correlated with earnings during adulthood: self-efficacy, self-esteem and aspirations. Results show […]
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JournalPan American Journal of Public Health
Equity in health and health care in Peru, 2004-2008
2013, Martin Valdivia, , ,
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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Projects
News
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How does anaemia affect the national economy? With regard to the recent numbers from the Demographic and Health Survey (ENDES) 2017, El Comercio highlights the findings of Lorena Alcázar on the economic impact of anaemia in Peru. The main finding of our researcher is that the prevalence of this disease costs Peruvian society approximately S […]
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Stories about children. Oswaldo Molina writes about the 15 years of Young Lives Peru
June 23, 2018 Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
What is it like to be a poor child in Peru? Oswaldo Molina, director of the Master’s in Economics at Universidad del Pacífico, writes in El Comercio about the findings of Young Lives Peru during 15 years of research. Although, in general terms, the study shows that the welfare of families has improved in these […]
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Young Lives Peru releases a summary of is findings on the drivers and impacts of childhood poverty in Peru
June 18, 2018 Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
The longitudinal study Young Lives Peru has published a summary of the findings of five rounds of surveys applied to children and their families —in the years 2002, 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2016—. These findings provide a broad overview of some indicators of child poverty, and account for changes in the lives of children and youth during […]
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Alan Sánchez’s research is selected in the 2018 INEI National Research Call
May 15, 2018 Education and learning, Health and nutrition
We congratulate our senior researcher, Alan Sánchez, whose research, “Relationship between adolescent pregnancy and adolescent maternity and educational and labor outcomes: an approach based on data from the ENDES”, was selected in the 2018 National Research Call of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). List of winners here.
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Lorena Alcázar’s findings on the economic impact of anaemia in Peru are highlighted by Instituto Integración
March 15, 2018 Health and nutrition
The latest report of Integration Institute (Instituto Integración) highlights a study conducted by Lorena Alcázar, senior researcher at GRADE, on the economic impact of anaemia in Peru, which finds that “anaemia costs Peruvian society approximately S./ 2.777 billion (0.4% of GDP in 2016)”.
Events
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Publication Presentation, GRADE on live
Debatirán nuevos resultados del estudio internacional Niños del Milenio, de GRADE
17/03/2015 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Education and learning, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
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Conferencia de alto nivel y Taller Latinoamericano de Evaluación de Impacto: teoría y práctica aplicada a programas de agua potable, saneamiento, higiene, gestión de recursos hídricos e irrigación
16/03/2015 → 20/03/2015 8:00 am - 2:00 pm Auditorio Juan Julio Wicht de la Universidad del Pacífico Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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Presentación del Dr. Jere Behrman (Universidad de Pennsylvania) del estudio: “Transmisión Intergeneracional de la Pobreza y la Inequidad”, organizada por Niños del Milenio
05/03/2015 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Education and learning, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
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Alan Sánchez presentará “Impacto del programa JUNTOS sobre desarrollo infantil: evidencia de Niños del Milenio y más”
15/12/2014 9:00 am Centro de Convenciones Hermasie Piaget (Av. Belén 245, San Isidro) Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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Santiago Cueto presentará hallazgos de PRIDI en desarrollo infantil en el Perú y países de la región en Washington
11/12/2014 11:00 am 1330 New York Ave, NW, Washington DC - Auditorium Enrique V. Iglesias, United States Education and learning, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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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
