Health and Nutrition
GRADE research in this area is focused on the analysis of issues such as the state of health and nutrition in Peru, how this related to social exclusion, socio-economic status and growth, as well as how it impacts on the ability of individuals and families to develop different capacities.
Senior Researchers
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Lorena Alcázar Valdivia
PhD en Economics - Washington University
Lorena has a BA in Economics from the Pacific University in Peru, a Master’s Degree in Political and International Economy from the Kiel Institute of World Economics, and a PhD in Economics from Washington University. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE). Previously, she served as Vice-President […]
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Alan Sánchez Jiménez
PhD en Economics - University of Oxford
Alan has a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. He also holds a master degree in Economics for Development from Oxford. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE, a Senior Researcher at Young Lives Peru, and a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Department of International Development. He teaches on quantitative methodologies for impact […]
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Martín Valdivia Huaringa
PhD en Applied Economics - University of Minnesota
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 […]
Research Assistants
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Dianela Espinoza Fernández
BA en -
Dianela is an economist from the University of Piura. At GRADE, she supports Alan Sanchez in the “Young Lives at Work” and “Nutrition, Lifestyle, Genes and Metabolome – A Biosocial Cohort Study of Obesity and its Consequences for Non-Communicable Diseases in Young Adults from Urban Peru” projects.
Project Support Staff
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Mónica Lizama Egoavil
Degree en - National Agrarian University
Mónica studied Statistical and Computer Science Engineer at the National University Agrarian La Molina. Currently she is the Data Manager for Young Lives in Peru. Before joining Young Lives, Mónica worked as a statistics assistant at the Peruvian National Institute of Statistics (INEI) and the International Nutrition Institute (IIN).
External Affiliated Researchers
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Jere R. Behrman
Ph.D. en - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Behrman is a leading international researcher in empirical microeconomics, with emphasis on developing economies. He is also a Research Associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center. His research interests include empirical microeconomics, labor economics, human resources (early childhood development, education, health, nutrition), project evaluation, economic demography, incentive systems and household behaviors. The unifying dimension of […]
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Marta Favara
PhD en - University of Essex
Marta is a Senior Researcher at the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford where she is leading the quantitative research agenda of Young Lives since 2015. She is also a Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin School Programme on African Governance and an IZA Research Affiliate. Before joining Young Lives, she […]
Publications
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JournalBMJ Open
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on anxiety and depression symptoms of young people in the global south: evidence from a four-country cohort study
2021 Alan Sanchez, Catherine Porter, Marta Favara, Annina Hittmeyer, Douglas Scott, Michelle G Craske, Revathi Ellanki, Tassew Woldehanna, Le Thuc Duc, Alan Stein
A phone survey administered between August and October 2020 to participants of a population-based longitudinal cohort study established in 2002 comprising two cohorts born in 1994–1995 and 2001–2002 in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru and Vietnam. We use logistic regressions to examine associations between mental health and pandemic-related stressors, structural factors (gender, age), […]
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Políticas para combatir la pandemia de COVID-19
2021 Miguel Jaramillo, Kristian López
This paper addresses the particular circumstances of the policies used in the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic. An analysis is made of the implementation of an appropriate epidemiological surveillance policy, with adequate diagnostic testing; contact tracing; and the use of effective isolation protocols. This same document proposes five areas for improvement and changes in the […]
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Young lives, interrupted: Short‑term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in low- and middleincome countries
2021 Alan Sanchez, Marta Favara, Richard Freund, Catherine Porter, Douglas Scott
This study contributes to the understanding of how severely a cohort of adolescents have been impacted by the crisis, using comparable longitudinal data from four Low- and Middle- Income countries (LMICs) that have been very differently affected by the health crisis: Ethiopia, India (states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru and Vietnam. In particular, Peru […]
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COVID-19 Could Reverse Two Decades of Progress: Emerging Policy Recommendations to Support Young People in Developing Countries
2021 Santiago Cueto, Alula Pankhurst, Renu Singh, Nguyen Thang
New research from the Young Lives COVID-19 phone survey in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam paints a worrying picture of how the economic and social impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and related restrictions could not only halt progress made over the last two generations, but could also reverse life chances and entrench existing inequalities for many […]
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Entendiendo la paradoja de la maternidad adolescente en Lima Metropolitana: Un análisis de los efectos de vecindario en el 2013
2020 Selene Cueva
During the last 35 years, teenage childbearing rate in Metropolitan Lima has not decreased, despite the fact that the capital city has greater access to public services and better economic opportunities than other regions of Peru. In this paper, this apparent paradox is analyzed based on an exploratory analysis of neighborhood effects for 2013. Specifically, through […]
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Número de hermanos, orden de nacimiento y resultados educativos en la niñez: evidencia en Perú
2011,
Se investiga el efecto del número de hijos y el orden de nacimiento en la asistencia a la escuela, en la probabilidad de retraso escolar
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Early Nutrition and Cognition in Peru: a within-siblings investigation
2011Alan Sanchez,
This paper examines the causal link between early childhood nutrition and cognition, applying instrumental variables to sibling-differences for a sample of pre-school aged Peruvian children.
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Long-Term Implications of Under-Nutrition on Psychosocial Competencies: Evidence from Four Developing Countries
2011Alan Sanchez, ,
Bajo la motivación de sugerencias de la literatura médica y del modelo de formación de habilidades propuesto por Cunha y Heckman (2007, 2008), este paper emplea información longitudinal de niños en etapa de crecimiento de países en desarrollo para estudiar el impacto de la nutrición temprana en el desarrollo de estas habilidades.
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Early nutrition and later cognitive achievement in developing countries
2010
This study uses longitudinal data from 8,000 children in four developing countries (Young Lives Survey) to explore the linkages between nutritional status and later cognitive achievement on preschool children.
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Shock de precios y vulnerabilidad alimentaria de los hogares peruanos
2009Eduardo Zegarra,
En el estudio se cuantifica los efectos económicos del súbito aumento de los precios de alimentos en los hogares peruanos durante 2007-2008 e identifica a los hogares en situación de vulnerabilidad alimentaria.
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JournalOxford Development Studies
Smarter through social protection? Evaluating the impact of Ethiopia’s safety-net on child cognitive abilities
2018
Ethiopia’s productive safety net is the second largest Social Protection Program in sub-Saharan Africa and has been rolled out to almost 10 million beneficiaries since 2005; its effects are therefore of general interest. We provide the first estimates of its impact on children’s cognitive abilities. To identify impacts of this program, we exploit four rounds […]
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JournalReview of Development Economics
Maternal group participation and child nutritional status in Peru
2017
Using data from the Peruvian sample of the Young Lives study, this paper investigates the association between maternal group participation and child nutritional status at the ages of 1 and 5 years. This study finds that the relationship between child nutrition and maternal group participation depends on the level of maternal education. In fact, maternal […]
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JournalPublic Health Nutrition
Effects of lipid-based nutrient supplements v. micronutrient powders on nutritional and developmental outcomes among Peruvian infants
2017
The objective of this article is to determine the effects of lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS) on children’s Hb, linear growth and development, compared with supplementation with micronutrient powder (MNP). Regarding its design, the study was a two-arm parallel-group randomized controlled trial, where participants received either LNS or MNP for daily consumption during 6 months. Supplements […]
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JournalJournal of Population Research
Is education a risk factor or social vaccine against HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa? The effect of schooling across public health periods
2017
Early in the 30-year HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, epidemiological studies identified formal education attainment as a risk factor: educated Sub-Saharan Africans had a higher risk of contracting HIV/AIDS than their less educated peers. Later demographic research reported that by the mid-1990s the education effect had reversed, and education began to function as a social […]
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JournalDemography
The population education transition curve: education gradients across population exposure to new health risks
2017
The salutary effect of formal education on health-risk behaviors and mortality is extensively documented: ceteris paribus, greater educational attainment leads to healthier lives and longevity. Even though the epidemiological evidence has strongly indicated formal education as a leading “social vaccine,” there is intermittent reporting of counter-education gradients for health-risk behavior and associated outcomes for certain […]
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¿Por qué no funcionan los programas alimentarios y nutricionales en el Perú?: riesgos y oportunidades para su reforma
Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú2007Lorena Alcazar,
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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 why2005Martin 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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Opportunity to learn mathematics among Aymara-, Quechua- and Spanish- speaking rural and urban fourth- and fifth-graders in Puno, Peru
Which way social justice in mathematics education2003Santiago Cueto, , ,
This chapter describes the opportunities to learn of a sample of students in Puno, Peru. The opportunities to learn were measured through an analysis of the notebooks of a sample of students in each classroom.
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Demanda inducida y ausentismo en los hospitales peruanos
Diagnóstico: corrupción: el fraude en los hospitales públicos de América Latina.2002Lorena Alcazar,
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Desayuno escolar y rendimiento escolar
Consecuencias de la desnutrición en el escolar peruano2002Santiago Cueto,
No se han encontrado publicaciones de Health and Nutrition en la categoría Policy brief
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Desayuno escolar y rendimiento: a propósito del programa de desayunos escolares de FONCODES en el Perú
1996, Santiago Cueto,
Este libro presenta al lector interesado en el desarrollo de programas sociales y en temas educacionales los resultados de dos estudios que evaluaron el impacto del Programa de Desayunos Escolares (PDE).
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Imaginemos un Perú mejor
1989
Artículos periodísticos escritos por el autor entre 1985 y 1988 para promover la diseminación de un enfoque de largo plazo en el pensamiento de quienes diseñan o ejecutan políticas de desarrollo.
No se han encontrado publicaciones de Health and Nutrition en la categoría Mimeo
Projects
News
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2022 Young Lives Peru Virtual Methodological Workshop: registration is open
February 3, 2022 Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
Registration is open for the 2022 Young Lives Peru Virtual Methodological Workshop. For two weeks, participants will learn tools and knowledge to access and analyze the databases of the longitudinal study. The workshop mixes the experience of a multidisciplinary team with the significance of nearly twenty years of fieldwork throughout Peru. KEY DATES Registration: from […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Two issues that prevent more vaccinations, by Hugo Ñopo
September 15, 2021 Health and nutrition
In his new op-ed in Jugo de Caigua, our Senior Researcher Hugo Ñopo shares his thoughts on the relevance of understanding two structural problems of vaccine demand —reading comprehension and time availability— to help design better active strategies.
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Why have we had such poor health results in the face of COVID-19 ?, by Miguel Jaramillo and Kristian López
June 6, 2021 Health and nutrition
“The most lethal error of the first months of the pandemic was one made up of economics and epidemiology: the poor determination of the social value of the massification of diagnostic tests and contact tracing.” Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, and Kristian López, director of LEEPS Laboratory, characterize the poor performance of the COVID ー […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
International Potato Day: Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion on the 2020 agrarian poverty figures reported by INEI
May 30, 2021 Rural development and agriculture, Health and nutrition
Regarding the agrarian poverty figures reported by the National Household Survey (ENAHO) 2020 of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, explains the problem of overproduction and dependence on industry food importation of inputs. Article of Convoca on the sidelines of the International Potato Day.
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GRADE frente al COVID-19, Institutional News
Hugo Ñopo has been appointed as member of CONCYTEC’s High-level Committee on COVID-19
May 14, 2021 Health and nutrition
Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, has been appointed member of the High Level Committee on COVID-19 of the National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC). In accordance with the Presidency Resolution No. 045-2021-CONCYTEC-P, this committee will be in charge of preparing a report that analyzes Peru’s performance in treating the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Events
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GRADE joins Ojo Público and UPCH Health Innovation Lab as partners of the #MITCOVID19Challenge Latin America vs. COVID-19
19/06/2020 → 21/06/2020 Evento virtual Employment, productivity and innovation, Health and nutrition, Urbanization and sustainable cities
GRADE joins Ojo Público and the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia’s Health Innovation Lab as partners of the MIT COVID19 Challenge: Latin America vs. COVID-19. This 48-hour virtual hackathon will be focused on developing solutions that have a relevant impact in the short term in Latin America. In our role, we will be helping to define the challenge. The […]
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GRADE, IEP and Colat Antitabaco held a seminar on tax policy and demand for tobacco in Peru
23/04/2019 9:00 am - 11:30 am Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Health and nutrition
The “Tax Policy and Demand for Tobacco in Peru” seminar, held by GRADE, the Peruvian Studies Institute (IEP) and the National Permanent Anti-Tobacco Control Commission (Colat) brought together forty specialists on health and tobacco control. The event began with the presentation of Oscar Boggio, national consultant for chronic diseases of the Pan American Health Organization, […]
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Martín Valdivia will share the research project “Demand sensitivity and tobacco taxes” at a MEF-GRADE-IEP seminar
12/03/2019 9:30 am - 12:00 pm Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas (Jirón Lampa 274, Cercado de Lima) Health and nutrition
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), and the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP) organize the academic seminar “Tax Policy and Demand for Tobacco”. Our senior researcher, Martín Valdivia, will share the research project “Demand sensitivity and tobacco taxes: a cross-sectional analysis” (visit the project’s Twitter account). Next, […]
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Call: 2019 Young Lives Peru’s Methodological Workshop
03/04/2019 → 05/04/2019 Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
Do you want to learn the methods and data of the largest longitudinal study currently carried out in Peru? Apply until March 22 to the 2019 Young Lives Peru’s Methodological Workshop. The Workshop will take place from April 3 to 5, 2019. Thanks to the Old Dart Foundation, the 20 selected will join the Workshop at no cost. In […]
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Santiago Cueto shared the work of Young Lives Peru at the USIL II International Congress of Psychological Evaluation
23/11/2018 Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (Av. la Fontana 550, La Molina) Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
Our Executive Director and Young Lives Peru Country Coordinator, Santiago Cueto, presented “Opportunities and educational trajectories of two cohorts of students in Peru” at the University San Ignacio de Loyola II International Congress of Psychological Evaluation. You may download Santiago’s presentation here.
- Education and Learning
- Employment, Productivity and Innovation
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Ethnicity, Gender and Citizenship
- Methodologies for Research and Evaluation of Policy and Programmes
- Poverty and Equity
- Natural Resources, Extractive Industries and Social Conflict
- State Reform and Public Institutions
- Health and Nutrition
- Urbanization and Sustainable Cities
