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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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Friday, 4 de April de 2025
Alan Sánchez and Antonio Campos joined academic events held by the University of Lancaster.
Our Senior Researcher Alan Sanchez and Adjunct Researcher Antonio Campos joined two events held last week by Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. As part of the workshop Innovations in Social Data Science: Tackling Inequality in Resource-Constrained Contexts with Novel Data and Methods, held by Lancaster University School of Mathematical Sciences, Alan presented “Measuring cognitive skills through […]
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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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Wednesday, 22 de January de 2025
Food safety certification in urban food markets: the willingness to pay for safer meat in Peru
This paper estimates consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for meat certified to be safe for human consumption in Peru. Citizens in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are increasingly concerned about the safety of food they consume. Across LMICs, urban markets remain the most important source of fresh and nutritious produce and therefore policymakers need to […]
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Wednesday, 16 de October de 2024
Eduardo Zegarra opina sobre la Inseguridad Alimentaria en el Perú
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Tuesday, 3 de September de 2024
Alan Sanchez presented study on early nutrition and cognitive skills at Fundación Éxito event in Colombia
“Stunting measured at age 5 years is associated with lower working memory and inhibitory control between 8 and 12 years in Peru and Ethiopia”. On August 28, our Senior Researcher Alan Sanchez was a speaker at the 21st Child Nutrition Award, organized by Fundación Éxito in Colombia. Using longitudinal data from Niños del Milenio/Young Lives, […]
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Tuesday, 2 de July de 2024
Eduardo Zegarra participated in a discussion of the Lima Network of Common Pots (Red de Ollas Comunes de Lima)
Our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra was a speaker at the conference Hunger does not wait. This event, organized by the Red de Ollas Comunes de Lima, seeks to discuss the importance of articulating agricultural policies and food policies with a nutritional approach to ensure the right to food. LIVE BROADCAST Follow the live broadcast on […]
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Tuesday, 2 de April de 2024
Impacts of the tax policies in health and nutrition indicators
The study will examine the objectives and design of taxes on tobacco, sugar-sweetened beverages and alcoholic beverages in Peru, focusing on their implementation and impact on relevant health indicators. Building on existing research, it will identify the nature of the health problems associated with the consumption of these products, analyze the health tax policies implemented, […]
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Saturday, 30 de March de 2024
Data matching: Construction of COVID-19 – related variables for Young Lives Peru
This Technical Note outlines the COVID-19 matched dataset from the Young Lives cohorts in Peru created by the Young Lives team. The matched dataset combines COVID-19 administrative data with the extensive longitudinal data set from the Young Lives study in Peru. The authors document the steps taken to create a set of variables that measure […]
