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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Chapter in BookEl Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar
La vulnerabilidad de los hogares rurales en tiempos de COVID-19: en búsqueda de las lecciones clave para una política de inclusión financiera
2022 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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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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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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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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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 over a two year period. The authors find that savings groups channel expensive […]
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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 over a two year period. The authors find that savings groups channel expensive […]
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Social Interactions and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay: The Role of Urbanization Patterns on the Effectiveness of GOVT Campaigns
2018 Alberto E. Chong, Gianmarco León, Vivian Roza, Martin Valdivia, Gabriela Vega
Los autores utilizan un experimento de campo para evaluar el impacto de dos campañas informativas “sacar el voto” (get-out-the-vote) para impulsar la participación electoral femenina en Paraguay. Encuentran que las campañas públicas no tuvieron ningún efecto ni en la probabilidad de registro ni en la participación de los votantes en las elecciones presidenciales de 2013. […]
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Urbanization Patterns, Social Interactions and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay
2017 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 (GOTV) campaigns to boost female electoral participation in Paraguay. They find that public rallies have no effect either on registration or on voter turnout in the 2013 presidential elections. However, households that received door-to-door (D2D) treatment are 4.6 percentage points more likely to vote. […]
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Social media instruments and the promotion of financial inclusion in peruvian rural areas
2017 Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
This study seeks to evaluate the use of short soap operas as a mechanism to promote the use of formal savings accounts among poor rural women that have been secularly excluded from healthy interactions with the formal financial sector. The authors developed a short soap opera (telenovela), named Josefa, which transmitted pro-savings messages using characters […]
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Effectiveness and Spillovers of online sex education: evidence from a randomized evaluation in Colombian public schools
2013 Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Dean Karlan, Martin Valdivia
En una evaluación aleatoria en Colombia, se encontró un curso en linea de salud sexual que conduce a impactos significativos en el conocimiento y actitudes de los adolescentes y, para aquellos sexualmente activos, menos ETS.
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JournalHealth Affairs
Assessing Latin America’s Progress Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage
2015 Adam Wagstaff, Tania Dmytraczenko, Gisele Almeida, Leander Buisman, Patrick Hoang-Vu Eozenou, Caryn Bredenkamp, James A. Cercone, Daniel Maceira, Silvia Molina, Guillermo Paraje, Fernando Ruiz, Flavia Sarti, John Scott, Martin Valdivia, Heitor Werneck
Two commonly used metrics for assessing progress toward universal health coverage involve assessing citizens’ rights to health care and counting the number of people who are in a financial protection scheme that safeguards them from high health care payments. On these metrics most countries in Latin America have already “reached” universal health coverage. Neither metric […]
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JournalJournal of Development Economics
Business training plus for female entrepreneurship? Short and medium-term experimental evidence from Peru
2015 Martin Valdivia
With millions of women around the developing world thrown into self-employment but with low productivity, increasing the profitability of their businesses is highly relevant for poverty reduction and gender equity. This study evaluates the impacts of a BDS program serving female microentrepreneurs in Lima using an experimental design, that included two treatment groups: One received […]
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JournalInternational Journal of Educational Development
Inequality in school resources and academic achievement: Evidence from Peru
2015 Gianmarco León, Martin Valdivia
This paper goes further in the discussion on the determinants of school attainment in developing countries. To properly estimate the effects of school resources on academic achievement, we need to take into account the large geographical inequalities in the distribution of school resources and the supply constraints faced by students living in poor areas. We […]
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JournalEn breve
Medios de comunicación, contenidos y comportamiento: algunos énfasis sobre la inclusión financiera
2014 Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
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JournalPan American Journal of Public Health
Equity in health and health care in Peru, 2004-2008
2013 Margarita Petrera, Martin Valdivia, Eduardo Jiménez, Gisele Almeida
Este estudio evalúa si las recientes tendencias económicas positivas y las políticas de salud pro-pobres han logrado mayor equidad en la salud, y explora los factores claves que explican este cambio.
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Etnicidad como determinante de la inequidad en salud materno-infantil en el Perú
Protección social en salud en América Latina y el Caribe: investigación y políticas2011 Martin Valdivia
Marco conceptual, estrategia de acción, productos y resultados sobre el debate y diseño de políticas asociadas a la reducción de brechas étnicas en salud del proyecto que la AES ha desarrollado entre 2005-2009.
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La salud materno-infantil en el Perú: mirando dentro y fuera del sector salud
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Peru: is identifying the poor the main problem in reaching them with nutrional programs
Reaching the poor with health, nutrition, and population services: what works, what doesn' t, and why2005 Martin Valdivia
This chapter benefited from comments by two reviewers and by participants at the World Bank conference "Reaching the Poor with Effective Health, Nutrition, and Population Services: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why?"
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The returns to health for peruvian urban adults by gender, age, and across the wage distribution
Wealth from health: linking social investments to earnings in Latin America2000 Edmundo Murrugarra, Martin Valdivia
This chapter analyzes the determinants of health status for urban adults in Peru and estimates the impact of health status on earnings
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Evolución de la equidad en el acceso a servicios de salud: Perú 1994-1997
Salud, equidad y pobreza en el Perú: teoría y nuevas evidencias2002 Martin Valdivia
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Projects
- Prices, taxes and tobacco consumption in PeruAugust 2017
- Soft skills, occupational decisions and use of credit among microfinance clientsNovember 2017
- Mapeo de Iniciativas de Educación Financiera en el PerúFebruary 2016
- Promoviendo el liderazgo de las mujeres en pequeñas empresasJune 2015
- Evaluación de intervenciones que promueven el liderazgo de las mujeres en pequeñas empresasOctober 2014
- Ahorro Programado y el bienestar de los hogares pobres en República DominicanaSeptember 2014
- Grupos de ahorro y vulnerabilidad en comunidades andinas del PerúJune 2014
- Markets for the pyramid base in Peru: a qualitative approachOctober 2013 - December 2013
- Evaluación de la expansión de Servicios Microfinancieros Rurales a través de Bancos Comunales en ParaguayApril 2013
- Promoviendo el liderazgo de las mujeres en pequeñas empresasNovember 2012
Media
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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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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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Participación y Programas Sociales
April 8, 2006 State reform and public institutions
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Microfinanzas y superación de la pobreza
June 19, 2003 Poverty and equality
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Participación y Programas Sociales
April 8, 2006 State reform and public institutions
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Microfinanzas y superación de la pobreza
June 19, 2003 Poverty and equality
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Por qué no un banco agrario de primer piso
November 25, 2001 Rural development and agriculture
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Sobre la pequeña agricultura
November 1, 2001 Rural development and agriculture
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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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