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 BookMeasuring women’s economic empowerment: Lessons from South America
Understanding the Role of the Couple in Key Decisions and Actions of the Female Entrepreneur in Peru
2017 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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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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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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Peru: is identifying the poor the main problem in targeting nutritional programs?
2005 Martin Valdivia
The study analyzes the targeting performance of 3 public nutritional programs for children in Peru: the Vaso de Leche, the School Breakfast and an aggregate of programs (ECHINP) that focuses on the nutrition of children under 3.
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Estructura del hogar y ahorro durante el ciclo de vida: evidencia de las cohortes peruanas
2003 Jaime Saavedra, Martin Valdivia
Análisis de la evidencia empírica de los arreglos intergeneracionales de coresidencia y ahorro familiar sobre el seguimiento de cohortes a lo largo de cuatro rondas de la Enaho sobre Medición de Niveles de Vida.
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Evolución de la equidad en salud materno-infantil en el Perú: Endes 1986, 1991-1992, 1996 y 2000
2002 Martin Valdivia
Evolución (1986-2000) de indicadores del estado de salud del niño y de la madre y de aquéllos del uso de servicios públicos de salud; grado de inequidad existente en salud; y descripción de las prácticas en salud reproductiva de las mujeres.
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Acerca de la magnitud de la inequidad en salud en el Perú
2002 Martin Valdivia
Se muestra que la magnitud de las inequidades en salud y el uso de servicios de salud en el Perú es muy grande. La contribución del análisis empírico al abordaje de estos temas tiene dos componentes fundamentales.
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Income smoothing over the life cycle: family living arrangements and the welfare of peruvian households
2000 Martin Valdivia
Se presentan evidencias que indican que los hogares peruanos no suavizan consumo a lo largo del ciclo de vida a través del típico mecanismo de ahorro-desahorro.
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JournalHealth Policy and Planning
Public health infraestructure and equity in the utilization of outpatient health care services in Peru
2002 Martin Valdivia
This article analyzes the magnitude and nature of socioeconomic differences in the utilization of outpatient health care services in Peru.
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JournalBoletín de Opinión
El trabajo asalariado en las economías rurales del Perú
1998 Martin Valdivia
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JournalBoletín de Opinión
Diversificación en un modelo dinámico de hogares rurales con incertidumbre
1996 Martin Valdivia
La diversificación geográfica y de actividades es un componente clave del comportamiento económico de los hogares rurales, en particular en la sierra del Perú.
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JournalPretextos
El sector agrario ante el proceso de liberalización: posibilidades y limitaciones en una economía de mercado
1993 Javier Escobal, Martin Valdivia
Principales políticas agrarias desde el inicio del programa de liberalización, desempeño del sector agrario durante 1992 y marco conceptual de las fallas del mercado para describir la evolución de las reformas estructurales.
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JournalThe North American Journal of Economics and Finance
Mexican agriculture in a economy-wide policy: latitude for special treatment
1992 Terry Roe, Martin Valdivia
The paper analyzes the role of the agricultural sector in the process of liberalization of the Mexican economy.
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Projects
- Impact assessment of the Project for Empowerment of Business WomenApril 2010 - September 2010
- Economic crisis and Millennium Development Goals in PeruNovember 2009 - December 2009
- Regional Office of the Network of Economic Policies and Poverty, second roundNovember 2009 - September 2011
- Adolescent pregnancy: Evaluating the effectiveness of preventive interventions in Latin AmericaSeptember 2009 - December 2009
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of an online training program about sexual health and sexuality for public school students in ColombiaMarch 2009 - August 2010
- Improving access to markets for indigenous communities in Panama: an evaluation of the role of rural pathsFebruary 2009 - June 2009
- Baseline of the Empowerment of Business Women ProjectJanuary 2009 - August 2009
- Conditioning factors and heterogeneity of impacts of the improvements on the rural roads of PeruJuly 2008
- Design of the impact assessment of the gender and microfinances projectMay 2008 - June 2008
- Conectando las comunidades rurales para el desarrollo: escudriñando sobre los impactos del programaNovember 2007 - November 2008
Media
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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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