Poverty and Equity
The researchers in this area of GRADE develop methodologies for conducting research into the multi-disciplinary causes and characteristics of the mechanisms that sustain poverty , inequality and exclusion, as well as studies to identify opportunities for change.
Senior Researchers
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Martín Benavides Abanto (on leave)
PhD en Sociology - Pennsylvania State University
Martín Benavides has a PhD in Sociology from Pennsylvania State University where he also attained a Master’s Degree in Education Policy. He has a degree in Sociology and a BA in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and has been a visiting student on issues of social mobility and inequality at Nuffield College […]
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Juan José Díaz Noziglia
PhD en Economics - University of Maryland
Juan José Díaz has a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. His interests include the labor economy and evaluating social, educational, health and development programs.
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Javier Escobal D`Angelo
PhD en Economic Development - Wageningen University
Javier holds a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, and a Master’s degree from New York University, where he also carried out doctoral studies in Economics. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. He is also Co-Researcher in the Young Lives/Niños del Milenio longitudinal study, which follows more than 2000 children during the […]
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Gabriela Guerrero Barnechea
PhD en Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
Gabriela Guerrero has a PhD in Educational Sciences from the KU Leuven in Belgium and a Master’s Degree in Development Studies with a major in Public Policy from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She is currently a […]
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Miguel Jaramillo Baanante
PhD en History - University of California
Miguel Jaramillo has a degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He completed his graduate studies in Economics and History at the University of California, where he received a PhD in History. His areas of interests are labor economics, social policy and institutional analysis. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. […]
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Juan León Jara-Almonte
PhD en - Pennsylvania State University
Juan has a PhD in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education from Pennsylvania State University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with mention in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE. His research interests are inequality in education, intercultural bilingual education, early […]
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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 […]
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Máximo Torero Cullen (de licencia)
PhD en Economics - University of California, Los Angeles
Maximo received a PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Economics and held a postdoctoral fellow position at the UCLA Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR). Currently, he is the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Prior to joining FAO, he was the World Bank Group Executive Director for […]
Associated Researchers
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Vanessa Rojas Arangoitia
PhD en - Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Vanessa holds a PhD in Sociology from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. She has a degree in Anthropology and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Her work has focused on the anthropology of education and childhood, addressing issues of educational transitions, child welfare, educational quality and power relations. During 2012, she […]
Adjunct Researchers
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Claudia Sugimaru Arakaki
Máster en Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
Claudia holds a Master’s degree in Educational Sciences from KU Leuven in Belgium and a degree in Psychology with a major in Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Currently, she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE.
External Consultants
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Paulo César Carrasco Fernández
Degree en - Pedro Ruíz Gallo National University
Paulo holds a Degree in Sociology from the National University Pedro Ruiz Gallo in Lambayeque and is a member of the Professional Board of Sociologists in Peru (Colegio de Sociólogos del Perú). Currently he is a Field Supervisor of the Childhood, Violence and Development Project funded by Bernard van Leer Foundation.
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 […]
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Carmen Ponce San Román
PhD en Economics - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Carmen Ponce is an External Affiliated Researcher at GRADE and is currently affiliated as Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University (Toronto, Canada). She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a MSc. In Economics from the University of Texas […]
Publications
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Resilience in a pandemic: the case of community pots in Lima, Peru
2022 Lorena Alcazar, Ricardo Fort
Due to the food crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, community pots have made a comeback in Lima’s vulnerable areas, as an alternative mechanism to fight hunger. They have become a symbol of resilience and solidarity, as well as spaces where women can support each other and become empowered. In this context, community pots have […]
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Resiliencia en tiempos de pandemia: el caso de las ollas comunes en Lima, Perú
2022 Lorena Alcazar, Ricardo Fort
A raíz de la crisis alimentaria generada por el COVID-19, las ollas comunes han resurgido en las zonas más vulnerables de Lima como una alternativa para enfrentar el hambre. Se han convertido en un símbolo de resiliencia y solidaridad, a la vez que han propiciado la creación de espacios de acompañamiento y empoderamiento femenino. En […]
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The impact of the JUNTOS conditional cash transfer programme on foundational cognitive skills: Does age of enrollment matter?
2022 Douglas Scott, Jennifer López, Alan Sanchez, Jere R. Behrman
This paper studies the relationship between the age of enrolment in Peru’s conditional cash transfer programme, JUNTOS, and the foundational cognitive skills of a sample of children aged between 5 and 12 years old. Using a difference-in-differences approach and exploiting within- household variation, the authors show that younger siblings in recipient households display significantly higher […]
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The case for enhanced childcare provision in a post-pandemic Peru
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar2022 Lorena Alcazar, Sonia Laszlo
In this essay we explore the relationship between childcare and maternal labour market outcomes by reviewing the existing worldwide evidence and reflect on potential ways forward for Peru. The global challenge of balancing work and care has been long-drawn, especially for women and girls, who are disproportionately burdened with care responsibilities. Lack of access to […]
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The case for enhanced childcare provision in a post-pandemic Peru
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar2022 Lorena Alcazar, Sonia Laszlo
In this essay we explore the relationship between childcare and maternal labour market outcomes by reviewing the existing worldwide evidence and reflect on potential ways forward for Peru. The global challenge of balancing work and care has been long-drawn, especially for women and girls, who are disproportionately burdened with care responsibilities. Lack of access to […]
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Brechas que perduran: una radiografía de la exclusión social en Perú
2019
Peru achieved many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) before the 2015 deadline, a sign of the great economic and social advances of recent decades. However, the high levels of heterogeneity that persist in the development indicators show the high inequalities in the country, particularly in relation to traditionally excluded groups such as women, indigenous […]
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Experiencias de convivencia, matrimonio y maternidad/paternidad en adolescentes y jóvenes peruanos
2019
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Perú: Informe de Progreso de Políticas de Primera Infancia
2019
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Peru’s JUNTOS cash conditional transfer program: geographic targeting (2005-2017)
2019
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have become an important anti-poverty policy globally in recent decades by aiming to alleviate poverty through financial incentives tied directly to human capital investments (namely primary and secondary schooling and maternal and child health). In Peru, the CCT program JUNTOS targeting poor families was established in 2005. By 2017, it has […]
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Consequences of teenage childbearing in Peru: is the extended school-day reform an effective policy instrument to prevent teenage pregnancy?
2019
In Peru, approximately 14 out of 100 female adolescents are mothers. Teenage childbearing is a major policy concern, as most studies point to a negative impact of early fertility on maternal outcomes and on the birth and future of the children. This paper investigates the role of extended school-day programmes, primarily seen as a means […]
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JournalInternational Journal of Educational Development
Inequality in school resources and academic achievement: Evidence from Peru
2015Gianmarco 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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JournalEnvironment and Development Economics
Extractive industries and local development in the Peruvian Highlands
2015, Javier Escobal,
During the last 20 years, the mining sector in Peru has been experiencing sustained growth. Using census, administrative, nationally and regionally representative data we compare districts in the Peruvian Highlands with a recent mining development with suitable counterfactuals. We find that the new mining activities attract migration inflows, and have some positive effects over educational […]
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JournalRevista Peruana de Investigación Educativa
Factores de eficacia escolar en el uso de laptops del programa OLPC
2011, Santiago Cueto, Alan Sanchez, ,
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JournalThe Business and Economics Research Journal
Minimum Wage and Job Mobility
2014, Alan Sanchez,
Se estudia los efectos de cambios en el salario mínimo utilizando una base de datos que registra siete cambios consecutivos de este indicador (entre los años 2002 y 2011).
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JournalPublic Finance Review
The incidence of social spending and taxes in Peru
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
Standard tax and benefit incidence analysis is used to estimate the effects of fiscal policy on poverty and inequality in Peru. Results suggest that the extent of inequality and poverty reduction induced by Peru’s fiscal policy is small. This result is associated with low social spending rather than with inefficient spending. Most social spending components […]
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Explaining an Overcoming Marginalization in Education: Ethnic/Language Minorities in Peru
Childhood Poverty: Multidisciplinary Approaches2012Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, , Juan Leon, ,
Se sostiene que aunque las tasas de matrícula escolar en el Perú son altas, sobre todo en primaria, existen grandes brechas de rendimiento desfavorables para los niños pobres de ár
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Inequality in post-structural reform Peru: the role of market forces and public policy
Declining Inequality in Latin America. A Decade of Progress?2010Miguel Jaramillo,
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Enhancing income opportunities for the rural poor: the benefits of rural roads
Economic reform in developing countries: reach, range, reason2008Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce,
Key rural infrastructure investments can have a long lasting impact on the poor if they are able to open and sustain new market opportunities.
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Measuring targeting performance through public expenditure tracking surveys: Peru
Public finance for poverty reduction2007Lorena Alcazar,
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Estructura ocupacional y formacion de clases sociales en el Perú: que nos dice la evidencia disponible sobre el Peru reciente
Clases sociales en el Perú: visiones y trayectoria2007Martín Benavides,
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La incidencia del gasto social y los impuestos en el Perú
2014Miguel Jaramillo, ,
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Spotlight on organisations: smallholder farmers and rural development
2014Manuel Glave,
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Spotlight on publications: smallholder farmers and rural development
2014Manuel Glave,
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Latin America’s rural family farmers: evolutions in access to markets and rural income structure
2014, Manuel Glave,
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Does the cradle set the opportunities and educative achievement? A look to the Peruvian case
2014Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, , ,
Este documento pretende ser un aporte para el diseño de políticas para reducir la inequidad del sistema educativo peruano a través del análisis de la asociación entre el nivel socioeconómico (NSE) de los estudiantes, oportunidades de aprendizaje (ODA) y rendimiento educativo.
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Inclusión social: diálogos entre la investigación y las políticas públicas
2014Martín Benavides, Miguel Jaramillo, Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Nestor Valdivia, Lorena Alcazar, Manuel Glave, Maria Balarin, Juan Jose Diaz, Juana Kuramoto, Gerardo Damonte,
Esta publicación recoge el espíritu del seminario internacional "Cambios Institucionales para un Estado más Inclusivo" (julio de 2012), y apunta a lo más relevante y valioso de cada exposición, intervención y comentario.
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¿Está el piso parejo para los niños en el Perú? Medición y comprensión de la evolución de las oportunidades
2012Javier Escobal, ,
Se aplica al caso peruano el marco conceptual de igualdad de oportunidades y otros indicadores para medir de manera directa cómo se distribuyen las oportunidades de acceso a bienes y servicios clave entre los niños.
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¿Quién se queda atrás? Resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Tercera ronda de encuestas en el Perú.
2012Santiago Cueto, Javier Escobal,
Este Mimeo presenta los resultados iniciales de la tercera ronda de encuestas en el Perú del estudio de largo plazo Niños del Milenio realizadas entre fines del 2009 y principios
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Educación para la transformación
2012,
¿Es posible mejorar la calidad de la educación en América Latina y el Caribe? Según los expertos autores de estas páginas, hay soluciones pero no atajos: se trata de comenzar de cero y de apuntalar los aprendizajes sobre todo en los niveles preescolar y primario. Este volumen ofrece una secuencia que sigue el proceso natural […]
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Estado de la niñez indígena en el Perú
2010Martín Benavides, Carmen Ponce,
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Projects
- Efectos dinámicos del programa Juntos en decisiones productivas y economías locales de los hogares rurales del PerúNovember 2014
- Impacts of the Juntos Program on women’s empoweringOctober 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
- Impacts of public rural investment in the development of regions and population well-being levels (2002-2012)October 2013 - February 2014
- Public expenditure on Latin American Children: How much and how effective?September 2013 - December 2013
- Determining factors of localized poverty and inequality trapsJuly 2013 - March 2014
- Development of a methodology to identify Indigenous Peoples for whom the Prior Consultation Act is applicable in the Peruvian Andes.May 2013 - June 2013
- Impact evaluation of business initiatives on the base of the social pyramidApril 2013 - October 2013
News
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Hugo Ñopo’s opinion in El País on Latin America’s measures to alleviate the effects of inflation
May 25, 2022 Poverty and equality
“In Peru, only 25% of employees are formal and business informality is also very large”. According to Hugo Ñopo, the increase in the cost of credit due to the rise in the benchmark interest rate of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru does not have such a direct impact on the level of activity. Thus, […]
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Americas Quaterly: Hugo Ñopo shares his opinion on the effectiveness of the Government’s anti-inflationary tools
May 23, 2022 Poverty and equality
Despite the Peruvian government’s measures to combat inflation, in an informal economy like ours, tactics such as reducing taxes on food and fuel and raising the minimum wage have limited effectiveness for many Peruvians, according to our Senior Researcher Hugo Ñopo. How is Latin America handling the inflation crisis? Read the full Americas Quarterly article.
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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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Research on public investment and inequality by Lorena Alcázar and Miguel Jaramillo is highlighted in RPP Noticias
September 24, 2021 Poverty and equality
Public investment could be a driver for economic reactivation, however it is not fulfilling its purpose of reducing inequality in the country. RPP Noticias highlighted a study by our Senior Researchers Lorena Alcázar and Miguel Jaramillo, whose findings we discussed last week.
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo shares his opinion in El País on the impact of the pandemic on poverty figures
July 5, 2021 Poverty and equality
What explains the vulnerability that has left Peru among the countries most affected by the pandemic? According to our senior researcher Hugo Ñopo, the problem lies in the “dysfunctionality” of the labor market, “responsible for 80% of household income”, and its relative inability to translate “macro bonanza into micro well-being”. He adds: “In Peru, four out […]
Events
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Lorena Alcázar will be a panelist at a PEP and Southern Voice event on COVID-19 policy responses
18/02/2022 8:00 am Web PEP Poverty and equality
What can be done to make COVID-19 policy responses more effective and inclusive? Our Senior Researcher Lorena Alcázar joins this working roundtable together with researchers from the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) and the International Development Research Center (IDRC) CORE COVID-19 Responses for Equity initiative, from the which GRADE is part. This session is co-organized by PEP and Southern Voice. REGISTRATION Sign-up here. […]
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Martín Valdivia will be a speaker at the Seminar on Applied Microeconomics in Peru
18/10/2021 12:00 pm Zoom del Seminario MAP Poverty and equality
What is the effect of group savings programs on household poverty and vulnerability? Do they increase or decrease formal financial inclusion? Our Senior Researcher Martin Valdivia will present the paper “Savings Groups Reduce Vulnerability, but Have Mixed Effects on Financial Inclusion” (together with Verónica Frisancho), at the Seminar on Applied Microeconomics in Peru (MAP Seminar). Marcos Agurto […]
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Carmen Ponce will be a speaker at the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Congress
24/08/2021 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CALACS 2021 Web Poverty and equality
Our Associated Researcher Carmen Ponce will be a speaker at the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Virtual Congress CALACS 2021, from August 23 to 25. This edition will highlight the tensions between security and insecurity in literary and artistic production, political representation, migration, education, social movements, economic policies. This discussion is especially pressing given the current COVID-19 […]
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GRADE’s researchers will give methodological workshops, attend conferences and share papers at the VII National Seminar of the SIEP
18/05/2021 → 21/05/2021 Education and learning, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
Diversos investigadores de Grade del área de investigación Educación y aprendizajes dictarán talleres metodológicos, participarán de conferencias y presentarán ponencias en el VII Seminario Nacional de Investigación Educativa «Causas y desafíos de la segregación educativa: implicancias para la calidad, la equidad y la construcción de ciudadanía», organizado por la Sociedad de Investigación Educativa Peruana (SIEP), el 18, 19, 20 y 21 de mayo, por primera […]
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GRADE’s researchers will be speakers and chairs at a Young Lives conference on longitudinal studies and COVID-19
11/05/2021 → 14/05/2021 8:00 am - 10:00 am Zoom de Young Lives Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality
Del 11 al 14 de mayo, nuestros investigadores principales Alan Sánchez, Santiago Cueto, Martín Benavides y Juan León participarán en la conferencia virtual de Young Lives, Aprendiendo de estudios longitudinales en países de ingresos medios y bajos: antes, durante y después del COVIDー19. Miércoles 12 de mayo, 8:00 am Innovación en la investigación longitudinal Expositores: Yyannu […]
- 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
