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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¿Qué diferencia hacen las escuelas? Un estudio de métodos mixtos en colegios secundarios del Perú
2021 Juan Leon, Gabriela Guerrero, Santiago Cueto, Paul Glewwe
The study on which this policy document is based analyzes which factors are associated with good results of students in public secondary educational institutions (IE), despite their adverse socioeconomic condition. For this purpose, a mixed methods design is used that follows a sequential explanatory model, which allows us to explore the effect of different types […]
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Do More School Resources Increase Learning Outcomes? Evidence from an Extended School-Day Reform
2021 Jorge M. Agüero, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, Alan Sanchez
Sigue siendo un debate abierto si la asignación de más recursos mejora los resultados de aprendizaje de los alumnos de las escuelas públicas de bajo rendimiento. Nos centramos en el efecto del aumento del tiempo de instrucción, que es teóricamente ambiguo debido a posibles cambios compensatorios en el esfuerzo de los estudiantes, los profesores o […]
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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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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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The dynamics of the Peruvian labor market: job creation and destruction and destruction of jobs and worker flows
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Daniela Campos
Peruvian labor analysis has focused mainly on its static dimension. Thus, the focus has been on indicators such as the number of jobs generated; unemployment, occupation or participation rates; job allocation by sector or formality, of unemployment, occupation or participation; the allocation of work according to sectors or formality condition. These indicators provide a view […]
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Diseño y métodos del estudio: resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Cuarta ronda de encuestas en el Perú
2015
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Electrification and Educational Outcomes in Rural Peru
2015,
The authors study the effects of electrification on educational outcomes in Peru by taking advantage of a program that rapidly increased electricity coverage in rural areas. Using household survey panel data from 2007-2010, we document that: i) girls living in treated districts are more likely to be enrolled in school, and this effect is larger […]
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PRIDI. Regional Project on Child Development Indicators. Urgency and Possibility. First Initiative of Comparative Data on Child Development in Latin America.
2014, Santiago Cueto, , , , , , , ,
The Regional Project on Child Development Indicators, or PRIDI, for its acronym in Spanish, was formally launched in December of 2009 by the Inter-American Development Bank. The first initiative of its kind worldwide, PRIDI seeks to generate high quality and regionally comparable data on child development outcomes. This report summarizes the implementation of the project […]
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Broken Gears: The Value Added of Higher Education on Teachers’ Academic Achievement
2014,
A growing literature establishes that good teachers are essential for high quality educational systems. However, little is known about teachers’ skills formation during their college years. In this paper we use a novel panel data set combining two standardized tests for Colombian students: one that is taken at the end of senior year in high […]
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The incidence of social spending and taxes in Peru
2013Miguel 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. Results also suggest that the small impact is associated with low social spending rather than with inefficient […]
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JournalInternational Journal of Educational Research
Research on education equity and quality in developing and transition countries
2006Santiago Cueto, ,
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JournalCuadernos de economía
Measuring the impact of assest complementarities: the case of rural Perú
2005Javier Escobal, Maximo Torero,
This paper analyzes three types of public infrastructure and services: "traditional infrastructure", "human-capital-generating public services" and "information and communication technologies".
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JournalBasis brief
Meeting the needs of the rural poor through post-reform financial markets
2003Javier Escobal, , , ,
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JournalBulletin de l'Institut Francais d'Etudes Andines
Cuando los extremos no se encuentran: un análisis de la movilidad social e igualdad de oportunidades en el Perú contemporáneo
2002Martín Benavides,
La movilidad social y la igualdad de oportunidades en el Perú contemporáneo. Usando un esquema empírico de clases, se aplican modelos logarítmicos lineales y multiplicativos a una
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JournalRevista Electrónica Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación
Eficacia escolar en escuelas bilingües en Puno, Perú
2003Santiago Cueto, ,
En el presente estudio, se muestran los resultados que estudiantes de cuarto y quinto grado de primaria de escuelas rurales multigrado en Puno, Perú, han obtenido en pruebas de rendimiento en matemática y comprensión de lectura, así como sus tasas de deserción y repetición.
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Adverse geography and differences in welfare in Perú
Spatial inequality and development2005Javier Escobal, Maximo Torero,
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Peru after privatization: are telephone consumers better off?
Reality check: assessing the distributional impact of privatization2004Maximo Torero, , ,
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Equidad y educación en América Latina: Nuevas rutas para la investigación
Etnicidad, Raza, Género y Educación en América Latina2004Santiago Cueto, ,
La forma en que el origen étnico de los niños, su raza y su género inciden en sus oportunidades educativas, las consecuencias que tiene su desigual acceso a las mismas y las razones de su bajo rendimiento escolar.
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Liberalización de la balanza de pagos: efectos sobre el crecimiento, el empleo y desigualdad y pobreza: el caso de Perú
Liberalización, desigualdad y pobreza: América Latina y el Caribe en los 902001Juan Jose Diaz, Maximo Torero,
En primer lugar se hace un recuento de los los cambios en el contexto macroeconómico y de las reformas estructurales, y otras reformas que se dieron simultáneamente para entender el cambio en la estructura productiva.
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Distribution, access and complementarity: capital of the poor in Peru
Portrait of the poor: an assets-based approach2001Javier Escobal, Maximo Torero,
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Alternativas para la pequeña agricultura en el Perú
2002Martin Valdivia, ,
Alternativas para la pequeña agricultura en el Perú.
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Exclusión y oportunidad: jóvenes urbanos y su inserción en el mercado de trabajo y en el mercado de capacitación
2001,
Algunas de las características demográficas y socioeconómicas más importantes de jóvenes de ciudades en hogares pobres, su perfil educativo y de capacitación, y su inserción en el mercado de trabajo.
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Cooperación internacional para el desarrollo: políticas, gestion y resultados
1990
Se examina la evolución de la cooperación externa para el desarrollo peruano en el período 1972-1988 y evalúa las políticas de cooperación bilateral para los países de Alemania, Holanda, Italia y Canadá.
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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.
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Projects
- Study about Afro-descendant children in PeruApril 2012 - October 2012
- Emblematic indicators of the National System for Social Inclusion and DevelopmentMarch 2012 - March 2012
- Nutritional paths during childhood: what conditions favor recovery from chronic malnutrition?January 2012 - August 2012
- Individual and family characteristics, educational opportunities and school performance: a longitudinal study in PeruDecember 2011 - December 2012
- Mechanisms for inclusion of the informal sector to the Social Security Network in the Dominican RepublicNovember 2011 - March 2012
- Incidence of fiscal policy in urban and rural areas of PeruNovember 2011 - February 2012
- Cost-benefit analysis of the reforms of social programs in Trinidad and Tobago (I)September 2011 - October 2011
- Cost-benefit analysis of the reforms of social programs in Trinidad and Tobago (II)July 2011 - October 2011
- Support in the study for the measurement of financial capacities among the low-income populationMay 2011 - June 2011
- Young Lives – Central 2011-2012April 2011 - March 2012
News
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Carmen Ponce: Towards a gender-transformative approach into graduation programs
January 16, 2020 Poverty and equality
What is the main challenge for integrating gender transformative approach into graduation programs? Our Associated Researcher, Carmen Ponce, shared her reflections as part of a 2019 workshop held by Fundación Capital, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the World Bank’s Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI). To read more insights from the workshop, read Fundación […]
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Javier Escobal is elected member of the Advisory Committee for the V National Economic Census
December 1, 2019 Poverty and equality
Our Senior Researcher, Javier Escobal, has been appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee of the V National Economic Census (V CENEC) 2019-2020, which will be executed by the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). The Advisory Committee is the body responsible for proposing the strategies, planning, monitoring and evaluation of the activities […]
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Alessandra Hidalgo wins at the 2019 MIDIS Culminated Research Contest
November 13, 2019 Poverty and equality
We congratulate our Research Assistant, Alessandra Hidalgo, who has won of the three prizes at the MIDIS 2019 Culminated Research Contest, on the sidelines of the Evidence Week 2019. Alessandra achieved this prize with the study, carried out together with Karina Márquez, a former GRADE’s Research Assistant, “What difference can parents make? Parental structure at home and […]
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Adolescent voices must shape policies designed to reduce early cohabitation in Peru, by Vanessa Rojas
June 25, 2019 Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality
“…children’s and adolescents’ voices remain marginalised in policy discussions. My research shows that any policies that aim to reduce the levels of early cohabitation in Peru must be shaped by adolescents’ voiced experiences”. Vanessa Rojas, Adjunct Researcher at GRADE and Qualitative Coordinator of Young Lives Peru, shares the findings for Peru of the Young Marriage and Parenthood Study.
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Young people in Peru face tremendous challenges in both qualities of education and access to decent work. In this Southern Voice article, our Senior Researcher Lorena Alcázar shares relevant findings on the conditions of those left behind in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in our country and how to help them.
Events
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GRADE’s International Conference ‘Territories and Development in Peru’
05/06/2018 → 06/06/2018 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
GRADE’s International Conference on Territories and Development in Peru was held on 5-6 June, 2018. In this event we shared the findings of a research program that we have carried out over the last three years, due to the agreement between GRADE and the Think Tank Initiative managed by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Through this research program, […]
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GRADE joins the Evidence Week 2017
17/10/2017 → 18/10/2017 9:00 am - 11:00 am Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Education and learning, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Presentaciones de investigadores de GRADE en el V Congreso Anual de la Asociación Peruana de Economía APE 2017
11/08/2017 → 12/08/2017 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Universidad de Lima Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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Hugo Ñopo will join an international forum on poverty and inequality in Mexico
28/03/2017 → 29/03/2017 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Auditorio-Gimnasio Ignacio Ellacuría, SJ, Universidad Iberoaméricana de Puebla, México Poverty and equality
In order to to discuss the reasons for the failure of social policies to fight poverty and inequality in Mexico, as well as to glimpse promising horizons in public policy to change this reality, the Social Sciences Department of the Ibero-American University Puebla will held the international forum Why poverty and inequality persist in Mexico? International perspectives and public policy […]
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Vanessa Rojas will join South American Childhoods International Seminar held by University of São Paulo
09/03/2017 3:30 pm Universidad de São Paulo (Av. da Universidade, 308 - Butantã) Education and learning, Poverty and equality
On Thursday, March 9, our adjunct researcher, Vanessa Rojas, will share the study “ How do children and teenagers perceive the role of the State? Reflections from education and health services“, at the South American Childhoods International Seminar in São Paulo, Brazil. The meeting, held by the School of Education of the University of São Paulo, will address the relationship between children […]
- 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
