Martín Valdivia Huaringa
Senior Researcher
PhD in Applied Economics - University of Minnesota
jvaldivi@grade.org.pe
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 Economics, the American Journal of Political Science, among others. He is an active member of networks such the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL LAC) and Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP). He is currently researching the drivers of financial inclusion and the economic empowerment of women in urban and rural areas of Brazil, Peru and the Dominican Republic, as well as on the role of transparency and citizen participation in the fight against corruption in Peru.
Publications
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Edutainment, savings, and generational differences in rural areas of Peru
2023 Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
We wrote, produced, and implemented a randomized five-episode soap opera on financial inclusion targeted to women from poor, rural areas ravaged by terrorism in Peru. We go beyond measuring attitudes and perceptions but observe actual savings accounts using bank data. Older women, those who directly suffered from terrorist violence, respond very well and save more […]
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Nudging microentrepreneurs under fire: Experimental evidence from favelas in Rio de Janeiro
2023 Anna-Katharina Lenz, Martin Valdivia
Do behavioral biases and the distortions generated by the presence of organized crime limit microentrepreneurs’ adoption of growth-oriented business practices? We explore this question in a field experiment with informal microentrepreneurs in which we provide informational visits and text messages about the advantages and convenience of a formalization program. All microentrepreneurs operated in Complexo Maré, […]
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Soap operas and pro-savings attitudes in poor rural areas of Peru.
2023 Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
We wrote, produced, and implemented a randomized intervention of a five-episode soap opera focusing on attitudes related to trust and savings. It was shown to females living in poor and violence-scarred rural areas and who received the national conditional cash transfer. We find that one year after the intervention treated females significantly improve their attitudes […]
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Edutainment, savings and dwelling-related assets in poor rural areas of Peru
Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
We exploit a field experiment by Chong and Valdivia (2023) and test whether por women from rural areas in developing countries that are able to save seek dwellingrelated assets and find causal evidence that this is indeed the case. Furthermore, we also find that the older cohort of women, those aged forty and higher, also […]
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JournalThe Journal of Politics.
Do Political Preferences Affect Policy Learning and Uptake? Evidence from a Field Experiment with Informal Entrepreneurs
2023 Cesar Zucco, Anna-Katharina Lenz, Rafael Goldszmidt, Martin Valdivia
We examine whether political preferences affect uptake and learning about government programs in the context of Brazil’s Individual Microentrepreneur Program, which offers subsidized access to social security coverage and business-related incentives. We fielded a randomized intervention that provided one-on-one consultancy and assistance to informal entrepreneurs. Treatment increased formalization rates, but we found only weak evidence […]
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Edutainment, savings, and generational differences in rural areas of Peru
2023 Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
We wrote, produced, and implemented a randomized five-episode soap opera on financial inclusion targeted to women from poor, rural areas ravaged by terrorism in Peru. We go beyond measuring attitudes and perceptions but observe actual savings accounts using bank data. Older women, those who directly suffered from terrorist violence, respond very well and save more […]
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Nudging microentrepreneurs under fire: Experimental evidence from favelas in Rio de Janeiro
2023 Anna-Katharina Lenz, Martin Valdivia
Do behavioral biases and the distortions generated by the presence of organized crime limit microentrepreneurs’ adoption of growth-oriented business practices? We explore this question in a field experiment with informal microentrepreneurs in which we provide informational visits and text messages about the advantages and convenience of a formalization program. All microentrepreneurs operated in Complexo Maré, […]
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Soap operas and pro-savings attitudes in poor rural areas of Peru.
2023 Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
We wrote, produced, and implemented a randomized intervention of a five-episode soap opera focusing on attitudes related to trust and savings. It was shown to females living in poor and violence-scarred rural areas and who received the national conditional cash transfer. We find that one year after the intervention treated females significantly improve their attitudes […]
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Edutainment, savings and dwelling-related assets in poor rural areas of Peru
Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
We exploit a field experiment by Chong and Valdivia (2023) and test whether por women from rural areas in developing countries that are able to save seek dwellingrelated assets and find causal evidence that this is indeed the case. Furthermore, we also find that the older cohort of women, those aged forty and higher, also […]
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Savings Groups Reduce Vulnerability, but Have Mixed Effects on Financial Inclusion
2020 Verónica Frisancho, Martin Valdivia
This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial inclusion outcomes in rural Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on both survey and administrative records, researchers investigate the impact of savings groups after more than two years of exposure. The authors find that savings groups […]
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JournalThe Journal of Politics.
Do Political Preferences Affect Policy Learning and Uptake? Evidence from a Field Experiment with Informal Entrepreneurs
2023 Cesar Zucco, Anna-Katharina Lenz, Rafael Goldszmidt, Martin Valdivia
We examine whether political preferences affect uptake and learning about government programs in the context of Brazil’s Individual Microentrepreneur Program, which offers subsidized access to social security coverage and business-related incentives. We fielded a randomized intervention that provided one-on-one consultancy and assistance to informal entrepreneurs. Treatment increased formalization rates, but we found only weak evidence […]
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JournalThe European Journal of Development Research
Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Observational Study in Brazil
2022 Rafael Goldszmidt, Patrick Behr, Cesar Zucco, Anna-Katharina Lenz, Lauro Gonzalez, Martin Valdivia
This paper studies the impact of microcredit in Brazil. We use a propensity score matching on original primary data on business and personal outcomes to compare veteran clients of BNDES—Brazil’s largest government-owned development bank—to a matched sample of more recent clients. Based on administrative data as well as data from a survey of 2107 clients […]
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JournalThe World Bank Economic Review
Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers’ Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia
2020 Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan, Martin Valdivia
This study reports results from a randomized evaluation of a mandatory six-month Internet-based sexual education course implemented across public junior high schools in 21 Colombian cities. Six months after finishing the course, the study finds a 0.4 standard deviation improvement in knowledge, a 0.2 standard deviation improvement in attitudes, and a 55 percent increase in […]
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JournalAmerican Journal of Political Science
Urbanization Patterns, Information Diffusion, and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay
2019 Alberto Chong, Gianmarco León, Vivian Roza, Martin Valdivia, Gabriela Vega
Researchers use a field experiment to evaluate the impact of two informational get-out-the-vote campaigns to boost female electoral participation in rural areas of Paraguay. They find that public rallies had a small and insignificant effect either on registration or voter turnout in the 2013 presidential elections. Households that received door-to-door canvassing treatment were 4.6 percentage points more likely […]
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JournalJournal of International Development
Health Impacts of a Public–Private Partnership Rural Roads Maintenance Programme
2018 Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
The authors provide evidence of health impacts of a public-private rural roads maintenance programme in Peru, which is characterized by a contracting mechanism that employs small local firms. Using a difference‐in‐differences approach, they find that improved roads connectivity leads to positive health externalities.
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La vulnerabilidad de los hogares rurales en tiempos de COVID-19: en búsqueda de las lecciones clave para una política de inclusión financiera
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar2022 Verónica Frisancho, Martin Valdivia
This essay identifies lessons learned from financial inclusion policies to understand how to mitigate the negative effects faced by rural households. This important contribution is all the more relevant given the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which the health shock shows a strong correlate in the economy.
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Radio and video as a means for financial education in rural households in Peru
Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America2020 Alberto Chong, , Martin Valdivia
This chapter analyzes the impact of a financial literacy training of a Peruvian microfinance institution, which is delivered by credit officers in monthly sessions with the support of video and radio materials.
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Understanding the Role of the Couple in Key Decisions and Actions of the Female Entrepreneur in Peru
Measuring women’s economic empowerment: Lessons from South America2017 Martin Valdivia
For this study, the author analyzed two variants of the question about the extent to which women evidence agency: women’s participation in making key business decisions and men’s participation in carrying out household chores in urban Peru. The objective of the analysis was to understand in a better way the relationship between women entrepreneurs and their […]
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The Vulnerability of the Uninsured to Health Shocks in Peru
Financing Health in Latin America Household Spending and Impoverishment2012 Martin Valdivia, Juan Jose Diaz
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Sobre los determinantes étnico-culturales de la inequidad en salud materno-infantil en el Perú
Salud, interculturalidad y comportamientos de riesgo2011 Martin Valdivia
Resultados e implicancias de política de dos estudios que usaron información de la ENDES (2005-06 y 2007-08) para profundizar sobre la relación causal entre etnicidad e indicadores del estado de salud y acceso, uso y financi
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Can savings groups promote financial inclusion and reduce poverty / vulnerability in rural areas of Latin America and the Caribbean?
2021 Verónica Frisancho, Martin Valdivia
This document assesses the impact of the introduction of savings groups on the results of poverty, vulnerability and financial inclusion in rural areas of Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on administrative and survey records. The researchers find that the proposals are supported by the social networks that exist in rural localities, […]
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Alternativas para la pequeña agricultura en el Perú
2002 Martin Valdivia, Miguel Robles
Alternativas para la pequeña agricultura en el Perú.
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Salud, interculturalidad y comportamientos de riesgo
2011 Lorena Alcazar, Santiago Cueto, Martin Valdivia, Ismael G. Muñoz
Tres Mimeos del Seminario Desigualdad, salud y educación realizado en Lima en noviembre del 2010 con el auspicio de la Fundación Ford, a través del Instituto de Educación Internacional y del IDRC.
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Reaching the MDGs: an international perspective
2008 John Cockburn, Martin Valdivia
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reached their half-way mark in 2007 amidst both disappointment and hope: although progress on the goals had been limited, particularly in the world's poorer countries, there was still sufficient time left to accelerate the proce
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Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú
2007 Eduardo Zegarra, Veronica Minaya, Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce, Juana Kuramoto, Manuel Glave, Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo, Juan Jose Diaz, Nancy Birdsall, Rachel Menezes, Maximo Torero, José Deustua, Manuel Hernández, Santiago Cueto, Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Martin Valdivia, Nestor Valdivia
Este libro recoge las Mimeos presentadas en la conferencia Investigación, políticas y desarrollo, realidad en el marco del 25 aniversario del Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo.
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Peru: hacia una estrategia de desarrollo para la sierra rural
2004 Javier Escobal, Martin Valdivia
Una estrategia de intervención para el desarrollo de la sierra rural para atender las particularidades de sus recursos naturales, desarrollo agrario, desarrollo de mercados y productos y aumento de capacidades productivas.
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Projects
- Sustainability of artisanal mining in Madre de DiosSeptember 2024
- Impacts of the tax policies in health and nutrition indicatorsApril 2024
- Soft skills and the resilience of women microentrepreneurs in PeruApril 2023
- Gender gaps and informality in the management of SMEs in PeruMarch 2023
- Brechas de género en la población inmigrante venezolana: 2018-2December 2022
- Healthy taxes and tobacco consumption in PeruSeptember 2022
- Anti-Corruption Laboratory IIAugust 2021
- Anti-Corruption Laboratory ISeptember 2019
- Impact evaluation course for the Superintendency of Banking and InsuranceMay 2019
- Estimating the illicit cigarettes consumption in PeruApril 2021
Media
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Commentaries by Martín Valdivia on the illicit cigarettes market in Peru
June 26, 2023 Health and nutrition
“To claim that 62.2 % of the cigarettes sold in the national market are of ilicit origin as a result of taxes, is to want to overturn the tax policy for the control of tobacco consumption”. Read the commentaries by Martín Valdivia, Senior Researcher at GRADE, on the recent report by the consulting firm Euromonitor, […]
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Does politics affect the uptake of social policies? Post by Martín Valdivia and others in The Journal of Politics’ blog
June 25, 2023 Employment, productivity and innovation
Martin Valdivia and coauthors examine whether policy preferences affect the uptake and learning from government programs in the context of Brazil’s Individual Microentrepreneur Program, which provides subsidized access to social security coverage and business-related incentives. To this end, they report the results of a field experiment in low-income communities in Rio de Janeiro. Blog based on […]
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La importancia de los caminos rurales
February 5, 2014 Rural development and agriculture
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Mujeres del Perú y Japón tienen más afinidad para iniciar un negocio propio
May 11, 2013 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Presentaron programa para desarrollar liderazgo de mujeres empresarias
May 10, 2013 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Does politics affect the uptake of social policies? Post by Martín Valdivia and others in The Journal of Politics’ blog
June 25, 2023 Employment, productivity and innovation
Martin Valdivia and coauthors examine whether policy preferences affect the uptake and learning from government programs in the context of Brazil’s Individual Microentrepreneur Program, which provides subsidized access to social security coverage and business-related incentives. To this end, they report the results of a field experiment in low-income communities in Rio de Janeiro. Blog based on […]
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Mujeres del Perú y Japón tienen más afinidad para iniciar un negocio propio
May 11, 2013 Employment, productivity and innovation
Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.
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Presentaron programa para desarrollar liderazgo de mujeres empresarias
May 10, 2013 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Unas mil empresarias serán capacitadas para mejorar su organización
May 4, 2013 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Juntos y sus condiciones
March 24, 2009 Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
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Commentaries by Martín Valdivia on the illicit cigarettes market in Peru
June 26, 2023 Health and nutrition
“To claim that 62.2 % of the cigarettes sold in the national market are of ilicit origin as a result of taxes, is to want to overturn the tax policy for the control of tobacco consumption”. Read the commentaries by Martín Valdivia, Senior Researcher at GRADE, on the recent report by the consulting firm Euromonitor, […]
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La importancia de los caminos rurales
February 5, 2014 Rural development and agriculture
Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.
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EE.UU. lanza nuevo programa para desarrollar capacidades de gestión
May 9, 2013 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Selected Publications
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Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers’ Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia
2020 Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan, Martin Valdivia
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Urbanization Patterns, Information Diffusion, and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay
2019 Alberto Chong, Gianmarco León, Vivian Roza, Martin Valdivia, Gabriela Vega
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