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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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 […]
Associated 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 […]
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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Experiencias de convivencia, matrimonio y maternidad/paternidad en adolescentes y jóvenes peruanos
2019 Vanessa Rojas,
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Perú: Informe de Progreso de Políticas de Primera Infancia
2019 Gabriela Guerrero
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Reshaping the gender gap in child time use: unintended effects of a program expanding economic opportunities in the Peruvian Andes
2019 Carmen Ponce, Javier Escobal
In the last decades, a variety of public policies and programs across the developing world have helped narrow the historical gender gap in access to education and employment. Yet, the gender gap in higher education, labor income and power relations within families -and the rural society in general- is still substantial in most developing countries. […]
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Peru’s JUNTOS cash conditional transfer program: geographic targeting (2005-2017)
2019 Miguel Ángel Carpio, Farhan Majid, Sonia Laszlo, Alan Sanchez, Zeljko Janzic
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have become an important anti-poverty policy globally in recent decades by aiming to alleviate poverty through financial incentives tied directly to human capital investments (namely primary and secondary schooling and maternal and child health). In Peru, the CCT program JUNTOS targeting poor families was established in 2005. By 2017, it has […]
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Drone photography improves understanding of spaces for children in Lima
Early Childhood MattersThe objective is to provide local and central governments with tools that will enable them to monitor and improve public spaces. These tools include indicators – such as the quality of the environment, ease of access for pedestrians, and level of use by families – and instruments for assessing them, such as checklists and drone […]
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Efectos heterogéneos del trabajo infantil en la adquisición de habilidades cognitivas
2012Carmen Ponce,
El estudio se ocupa de los efectos heterogéneos del trabajo en la formación de capital humano a través de una definición amplia de traba
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Prefiero que me peguen con palo… las notas son sagradas Percepciones sobre disciplina y autoridad en una secundaria pública en el Perú
2011Vanessa Rojas,
Una aproximación a las opiniones y experiencias sobre la disciplina y el castigo en la vida escolar de un grupo de estudiantes entre los
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Long-Term Implications of Under-Nutrition on Psychosocial Competencies: Evidence from Four Developing Countries
2011Alan Sanchez, ,
Bajo la motivación de sugerencias de la literatura médica y del modelo de formación de habilidades propuesto por Cunha y Heckman (2007, 2008), este paper emplea información longitudinal de niños en etapa de crecimiento de países en desarrollo para estudiar el impacto de la nutrición temprana en el desarrollo de estas habilidades.
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Contracting the road to development: early impacts of a rural roads program
2010Martin 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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Psychosocial Status and Cognitive Achievement in Peru
2010Alan Sanchez, Ingo W. Outes-Leon, ,
This paper presents the results of a quantitative analysis that measured the relationship between psychosocial status at the age of 8, and the development of cognitive skills four years later.
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Administración pública y distribución del ingreso en Perú
Government spending and income distribution in Latin America1993, , Javier Escobal, ,
Versión en inglés del documento de los mismos autores titulado "Gestión pública y distribución de ingresos: tres estudios de caso para la economía peruana".
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Regional databases and S&T development indicators problems, achievements and utilization of grade’s Latin American database
Les indicateurs de science pour les pays en developpment: science indicators for developing countries1992Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui,
GRADE has accumulated a large volume of S&T and socio-economic indicators gathered in a database. It purpose is to maintain updated statistical data which can be used to monitor the evolution of scientific production in the region.
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Projects
- Young Lives – Qualitative component 2009-2010July 2009 - March 2010
- Study on the status of children and indigenous children in PeruMarch 2009 - November 2009
- Earnings and employmentJanuary 2009 - May 2009
- Climate change and rural territorial dynamics in PeruOctober 2008 - June 2010
- Identificación, delimitación y descripción básica de territorios de estudioAugust 2007
- Access to infrastructure, institutions and poverty dynamics in PeruAugust 2008
- Participation in the evaluation of the PROPONE project on institutionalizing equity processes in educationJune 2008 - January 2009
- Design of the impact assessment of the gender and microfinances projectMay 2008 - June 2008
- Young Lives – CentralApril 2008 - June 2009
- Young Lives – QuantitativeApril 2008 - June 2009
News
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“The strategy of becoming a ‘country of entrepreneurs’ is not only ineffective in combating poverty, but it has negative impacts on our aggregate productivity. For poor households -the focus of our attention today- dependent employment is better less uncertainties.” Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, explains in El Comercio what is the new reality of Peruvian […]
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Hugo Ñopo: “For the first time, the number of urban poor is above the number of rural poor”
April 25, 2018 Poverty and equality
Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, explains in the new face of monetary poverty in Peru: “In 2017, for the first time, the number of urban poor is above the number of rural poor. (Although) the rate of rural poverty is higher than the urban poverty rate, there are many more people living in urban areas.” […]
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Hugo Ñopo: “It’s time to think about new mechanisms to fight poverty”
April 24, 2018 Poverty and equality
“The best social policy is employment: 80% of household income comes from employment, not from social policies. What is the best tool to get a job? A good education”. Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, was interviewed in Latina Noticias about the rise of monetary poverty to 21.7% in 2017.
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Poverty rises in Peru for the first time in 10 years: why did it happen?
April 24, 2018 Poverty and equality
Why did monetary poverty grow in Peru for the first time in 10 years? Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, said in CNN that there are two main factors: the Peruvian economy has stopped growing as before and the changes in social policy. He explained that “if we grow less, there is higher unemployment, less money for […]
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Monetary poverty rose one point in 2017 -the first increase of this millennium- according to the National Household Survey of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics of Peru. Regarding these results, our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, warns that now we are a country with more urban poor than rural poor, a new challenge for policy […]
Events
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Martín Valdivia, Lorena Alcázar y Eduardo Zegarra participarán en la conferencia anual de PEP, en Filipinas
06/06/2016 → 08/06/2016 Manila, Filipinas Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
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Javier Escobal comentará libro sobre la desigualdad de la distribución de ingresos en el Perú, de la PUCP
21/04/2016 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Auditorio Gustavo Gutiérrez (Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la PUCP) Poverty and equality
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April 5th-6th: ILAIPP II Regional Conference “Innovation and Quality in Education”
05/04/2016 → 06/04/2016 8:00 am - 12:30 pm Education and learning, Poverty and equality
The ILAIPP II Regional Conference “Innovation and Quality in Education” will be held in Lima, Peru on April 5th and 6th. The conference, host by the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), aims to generate and disseminate high quality research about educational innovation and quality in Latin America, with great potential to influence educational […]
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The 17th GDN Annual Global Development Conference will be held in Lima, Peru on 17-18 March, 2016
17/03/2016 → 18/03/2016 Universidad del Pacífico (Av. Salaverry 2020, Jesús María, Lima, Perú) Education and learning, Poverty and equality
The 17th GDN Annual Global Development Conference will be held in Lima, Peru on 17-18 March, 2016. It will focus on the topic of ‘Education for Development: Quality and Inclusion for Changing Global Human Capital Needs.’ The conference will be hosted by the Ministry of Education Peru and the Group for the Analysis of Development […]
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GRADE celebra sus 35 años de vida institucional con la conferencia Avances recientes en la investigación y políticas para el desarrollo
25/11/2015 → 26/11/2015 3:30pm - 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
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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
