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Monday, 26 de May de 2025Salud mental juvenil en crisis: Cuando la pandemia amplifica desigualdades estructurales
The covid-19 pandemic had a severe effect on the mental health of vulnerable young women in Peru, exacerbating symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress. This qualitative study, based on the lived experience approach, analyses the trajectories of two young Peruvian women – one from a rural and one from an urban context – participants in […]
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Monday, 26 de May de 2025
La pandemia y la salud mental: Un estudio basado en experiencias vividas por jóvenes peruanas vulnerables
Although mental health is recognised as a right in Peruvian public policy, there remains a paucity of evidence that addresses subjective experiences of emotional distress from the perspective of young people themselves. This research contributes to closing this gap through an in-depth qualitative approach, focusing on the voices of two young women who report mental […]
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Tuesday, 6 de May de 2025
First Annual Meeting of the Network of Think Tanks of the Americas (CEPAS)
The First Annual Meeting of the Network of Think Tanks of the Americas (CEPAS) will bring together leading experts from Latin American think tanks to discuss two regional challenges. The meeting will feature a keynote address by CEPAS President Felipe Larraín, followed by a keynote presentation by economist Jeffrey Sachs. This will be followed by […]
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Monday, 31 de March de 2025
“Adolescence”: The violence we normalize, by Vanessa Rojas
“Their identities would be taking shape in these physical and virtual environments marked by this structural violence that, unfortunately, reproduce discourses that promote not only hierarchical power relations between men and women, but also misogyny.” Our senior researcher Vanessa Rojas reflects on the themes explored in the Adolescence series. Read her full article in Ojo […]
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Monday, 24 de March de 2025
GRADE Conversa 24: Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health, featuring Vanessa Rojas
Covid-19 hit Peru hard and youth were a highly affected group. In 2023, the qualitative component of Young Lives Longitudinal Study collected the voices of youth participants about their well-being and mental health in a post-conflict and pandemic context. Listen to a new episode of our podcast GRADE Conversa featuring Vanessa Rojas, Senior Researcher at […]
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Tuesday, 18 de March de 2025
The long shadow of conflict on human capital: Intergenerational evidence from Peru
This paper estimates the intergenerational impacts of mothers’ exposure to the 1980–2000 Peruvian civil conflict on their children’s socio-emotional skills development. We combine longitudinal data, which measures skills across a child’s life, with historical geo-located conflict data. Exploiting spatial and temporal variation in conflict episodes, we find that mothers’ exposure to conflict has adverse intergenerational […]
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Friday, 7 de March de 2025
#8M Día Internacional de la Mujer 2025: Publicaciones destacadas
En nuestra sociedad aún operan diversos mecanismos que han perpetuado inequidades sociales basadas en las diferencias de género y expresadas en las desiguales oportunidades de desarrollo que tienen hombres y mujeres en el Perú. Esta forma de desigualdad tiene raíces estructurales que no solo se manifiestan en los planos sociales y económicos, sino también en […]
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Friday, 28 de February de 2025
Young Lives attrition report: Round 7
Over more than 20 years, Young Lives has followed two cohorts born seven years apart (Favara et al. 2021). This technical note documents the attrition rates from the seventh round of the Young Lives survey carried out in Ethiopia, India (the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) and Peru in 2023–24, when the Younger Cohort […]
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Tuesday, 3 de December de 2024
GRADE researchers join the XXXV Annual CIES 2024 Research Seminar
Del 11 al 13 de diciembre, investigadoras e investigadores de GRADE serán expositores, comentaristas y moderadores en el XXXV Seminario Anual de Investigación CIES 2024. El evento, organizado por el Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES) de manera híbrida, abordará el tema “Retos y perspectivas del Perú y América Latina: inversión, sostenibilidad y cohesión social”. A continuación, […]
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Monday, 2 de December de 2024
Panorama de los programas de visitas domiciliarias en América Latina y el Caribe
The Inter-American Dialogue and UNICEF present this study as a contribution to strengthening the early childhood care and development agenda in the region. Through a cross-sectional analysis and comparison of the design and implementation of home visiting programmes in ten countries in the region, the study seeks to provide a characterisation of these programmes, highlighting […]
