Jorge Agüero (1971 - †2023)
PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics - University of Wisconsin, Madison
jaguero@grade.org.pe
Jorge was an External Affiliated Researcher at GRADE. He had a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Master’s degree in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. He was also a member of the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy, and an Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and El Instituto at the University of Connecticut. Previously, he worked at GRADE as Research Assistant in the areas of Poverty, Rural Development and Inequality. His research interests were economic development and labor economics.
Jorge’s website in University of Connecticut: https://aguero.econ.uconn.edu/
Publications
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JournalReview of Development Economics
Violence in pandemic times: the dynamic relationship between COVID-19 and intimate partner violence
2023 Wilson Hernández, Angelo Cozzubo, Jose Carlos Aguilar, Jorge Aguero, José Mendoza
Intimate partner violence (IPV) increased during the COVID-19 lockdown, but few studies use national data and explore underlying mechanisms. To address this gap, we study the changes in IPV during the first ten months of the pandemic in Peru. We study the number of calls received by the national helpline for domestic violence victims, Línea […]
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Chapter in BookEl Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar
Educación superior, políticas inclusivas y discriminación en el mercado laboral
2022 Jorge Aguero
This essay addresses the issue of productivity from the angle of human capital formation. This study summarizes the advances in access to education and shows the pending task in higher education, and then discusses the role of inclusive policies with the example of Beca 18 in the context of a labor market marked by racial […]
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El impacto de la pandemia por la COVID-19 sobre la violencia familiar: diferenciando víctimas, tipos de violencia y niveles de riesgo en el Perú
2022 Wilson Hernández, Angelo Cozzubo, José Carlos Aguilar, Denise Ledgard, Jorge Aguero
Las medidas para mitigar los contagios por COVID-19 generaron condiciones para una mayor violencia familiar (confinamiento forzado, restricciones de movilidad, estrés económico, etc.). Tal fue el caso del Perú. Esta investigación evalúa el impacto de estas condiciones sobre la violencia familiar en el Perú durante las primeras 14 semanas de cuarenta. Empleamos los registros administrativos […]
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JournalJournal of Development Economics
The value of redistribution: Natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions
2020 Jorge Aguero, Carlos Felipe Balcázar, Stanislao Maldonado, Hugo Ñopo
Researchers exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. Combining testscores from over two million students and district-level administrative data of mining taxes redistributed to localgovernments, they find sizable effects on student learning from […]
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The value of redistribution: natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions
2017 Jorge Aguero, Carlos Felipe Balcázar, Stanislao Maldonado, Hugo Ñopo
We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. Combining test scores from over two million students and district-level administrative data on mining production and the redistribution of mining taxes to local governments, we […]
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El impacto de la pandemia por la COVID-19 sobre la violencia familiar: diferenciando víctimas, tipos de violencia y niveles de riesgo en el Perú
2022 Wilson Hernández, Angelo Cozzubo, José Carlos Aguilar, Denise Ledgard, Jorge Aguero
Las medidas para mitigar los contagios por COVID-19 generaron condiciones para una mayor violencia familiar (confinamiento forzado, restricciones de movilidad, estrés económico, etc.). Tal fue el caso del Perú. Esta investigación evalúa el impacto de estas condiciones sobre la violencia familiar en el Perú durante las primeras 14 semanas de cuarenta. Empleamos los registros administrativos […]
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Natural resources, redistribution and human capital formation
2016 Jorge Aguero, Carlos Felipe Balcázar, Stanislado Maldonado, Hugo Ñopo
How do resource booms affect human capital accumulation? The authors exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodity boom across local governments in Peru to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation. The authors explore the effect of both mining production and tax revenues on test scores, finding a substantial and […]
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JournalReview of Development Economics
Violence in pandemic times: the dynamic relationship between COVID-19 and intimate partner violence
2023 Wilson Hernández, Angelo Cozzubo, Jose Carlos Aguilar, Jorge Aguero, José Mendoza
Intimate partner violence (IPV) increased during the COVID-19 lockdown, but few studies use national data and explore underlying mechanisms. To address this gap, we study the changes in IPV during the first ten months of the pandemic in Peru. We study the number of calls received by the national helpline for domestic violence victims, Línea […]
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JournalJournal of Development Economics
The value of redistribution: Natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions
2020 Jorge Aguero, Carlos Felipe Balcázar, Stanislao Maldonado, Hugo Ñopo
Researchers exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. Combining testscores from over two million students and district-level administrative data of mining taxes redistributed to localgovernments, they find sizable effects on student learning from […]
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JournalEstudios Económicos
The permanent effects of recessions on child health: evidence from Peru
2010 Martin Valdivia, Jorge Aguero
Se explora el efecto permanente de las recesiones macroeconómicas sobre la salud materna e infantil en Perú. We explore the permanent effects that recessions have on health-related outcomes of mothers and children in Peru.
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Educación superior, políticas inclusivas y discriminación en el mercado laboral
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar2022 Jorge Aguero
This essay addresses the issue of productivity from the angle of human capital formation. This study summarizes the advances in access to education and shows the pending task in higher education, and then discusses the role of inclusive policies with the example of Beca 18 in the context of a labor market marked by racial […]
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Projects
- Causal estimates of intangible costs of violence against women in Latin American and The CaribbeanSeptember 2012 - January 2013
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