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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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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Consequences of teenage childbearing in Peru: is the extended school-day reform an effective policy instrument to prevent teenage pregnancy?
2019 Alan Sanchez, Marta Favara
In Peru, approximately 14 out of 100 female adolescents are mothers. Teenage childbearing is a major policy concern, as most studies point to a negative impact of early fertility on maternal outcomes and on the birth and future of the children. This paper investigates the role of extended school-day programmes, primarily seen as a means […]
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No longer children: What do Young Lives children do when they grow up?
2018 Marta Favara, Grace Chang, Alan Sanchez
No longer children: What do Young Lives children do when they grow up? is a Young Lives research report, synthesising research from the past two survey rounds (in 2013 and 2016) to reflect on how the experience of poverty early in life affects future opportunities, documenting children and young people’s trajectories from school into post-secondary […]
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¿Qué hemos aprendido del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio? Síntesis de hallazgos
2018 Santiago Cueto, Javier Escobal, , Nicolás Pazos, Mary Penny, Vanessa Rojas, Alan Sanchez, Claudia Felipe
The Young Lives Peru Country Report presents a summary of the main findings that emerge from analysing the Young Lives data from Peru across a longitudinal study following two cohorts of children in various situations from remote rural areas to urban communities, as a component of a larger multicountry project. The study relates conditions early […]
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JournalReview of Development Economics
Maternal group participation and child nutritional status in Peru
2017 Marta Favara
Using data from the Peruvian sample of the Young Lives study, this paper investigates the association between maternal group participation and child nutritional status at the ages of 1 and 5 years. This study finds that the relationship between child nutrition and maternal group participation depends on the level of maternal education. In fact, maternal […]
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Pobreza e impactos heterogéneos de las políticas activas del empleo juvenil: el caso de PROJOVEN en el Perú
2009Miguel Jaramillo,
Análisis de la relación entre la pobreza de los hogares y los impactos de políticas activas de promoción del empleo en el Perú, en parti
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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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Maternal Migration and Child Well-Being in Peru
2009Javier Escobal, ,
Se evidencia que la migración no sólo influencia a los que emigran, sino que también puede tener efectos intergeneracionales en los hijos.
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Early Nutrition and Cognitive Achievement in Pre-school Children in Peru
2009Alan Sanchez,
This paper examines the relationship between early stunting and later cognitive achievement.
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Projects
- Young Lives – CommunicationsApril 2008 - June 2009
- Evaluation of the design and execution of actions concerning the food programs executed by PRONAAFebruary 2008 - June 2008
- Más allá del trabajo y la escuela: el uso del tiempo y el desarrollo del niñoNovember 2007 - October 2008
- Oficina Regional de la Red de Políticas Económicas y PobrezaNovember 2007 - October 2009
- Desarrollo espacial: el caso peruanoAugust 2007
- Identificación, delimitación y descripción básica de territorios de estudioAugust 2007
- Monitoreo del gasto público social orientado a la infancia: análisis del programa JUNTOS y de la oferta asociada a las condicionalidades del programaJuly 2007
- Evaluación de impacto de proyectos financiados por CORDAIDJuly 2007
- Financing health and social protection services in Latin AmericaJune 2007
- Estudio de línea de base de las poblaciones a ser intervenidas por ALIADOSJune 2007
News
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GRADE among the most influential social policy think tanks worldwide, according to University of Pennsylvania
January 30, 2018 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
For the eighth consecutive year, GRADE has been distinguished among the Top Social Policy Think Tanks in the world —29th place—, according to 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report. This study, conducted by the Think Tanks and Civil Society Program at the University of Pennsylvania, classified 7815 organizations around the world in global and regional lists and by […]
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MIDIS 4th Social Inclusion Week: Lorena Alcázar discussed The Lancet proposals for early childhood public policies
October 18, 2017 Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
Our senior researcher, Lorena Alcázar, shared the main messages of The Lancet proposals for early childhood public policies discussed at the VI Social Inclusion Week (15-19 October), held by the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS): “A message is the relevance of investing in the early years of children, showing the cost of the effects of this group not achieving […]
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Hugo Ñopo gives his thoughts on the challenges Peru must overcome to erradicate poverty
October 17, 2017 Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality
According to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Peru should put and end to poverty for that year. For that, is key to promote the Sustainable Development Goals. What are the challenges to moving towards this goal? Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo gives his thoughts to El Comercio: “Henceforth, each reduction in one point of poverty will […]
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University of Lima and GRADE held the fourth annual congress of the Peruvian Economic Association APE 2017
August 29, 2017 Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, 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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Carolina Trivelli recommends GRADE’s 35th Anniversary research reviews
July 17, 2017 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
Carolina Trivelli recommends our 35th Anniversary book, “Investigación para el desarrollo en el Perú (Research for Development in Peru)“. In her op-ed published in Perú 21, two research reviews stand out: “Sanchez and Rodriguez discuss the impacts of Juntos, answering several of the demands that demand for more evaluation, and they make clear for what this intervention serves and where there are […]
Events
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Javier Escobal será expositor en conversatorio sobre políticas públicas y trabajo infantil agrícola, del Congreso de la República, FAO y Semilla
20/11/2015 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm Hemiciclo Raúl Porras Barrenechea, Congreso de la República Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality
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Javier Escobal comentará la pobreza multidimensional desde una perspectiva académica, en la IV Semana de la Inclusión Social 2015
19/10/2015 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Centro de Convenciones de Lima Poverty and equality
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Martín Valdivia preside sesión Teaching Life Skills: Recent Experimental Evidence, en la XX reunión anual de LACEA, en Bolivia
15/10/2015 Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality
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Gabriela Guerrero participa en la V conferencia de la Sociedad Internacional de Indicadores de la Infancia
02/09/2015 → 04/09/2015 8:00 am - 5:30 pm Universidad de Ciudad del Cabo Education and learning, Poverty and equality
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Javier Escobal participa en Diálogo por la concertación “Retos para la gobernabilidad: Perú al 2021” de la MCLCP
14/08/2015 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Auditorio de la Sociedad Nacional de Industrias (Los Laureles N° 365, San Isidro) Rural development and agriculture, 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
