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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A Drop of Love? Rainfall Shocks and Spousal Abuse: Evidence from Rural Peru
2020 Juan Jose Diaz, Víctor Saldarriaga
The authors investigate whether the exposure to rainfall shocks affects the experience of physical intimate partner violence by women in rural areas of the Peruvian Andes. Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys over the period 2005-2014, they track changes in women’s experience of physical IPV following the exposure to rainfall shocks during the […]
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Latin America and the end of the demographic bonus
2020 Hugo Ñopo
Key messages Latin America’s social demography is experiencing important changes. Life expectancy is increasing and fertility is dropping: thus the ‘demographic bonus’ is ending. A renewed architecture of social expenditure, in line with the new population pyramid, is called for. The components of the dependency rate are moving in opposite directions. While the one for […]
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(Un)Conditional Love in the Time of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Effect of the Peruvian JUNTOS Program on Spousal Abuse
2020 Juan Jose Diaz, Víctor Saldarriaga
Cash Transfer programs often target women as the recipient of the money. Unintentionally, this flow of unearned income may reduce spousal abuse. Researchers investigate this possibility by assessing the Peruvian JUNTOS program. They exploit the staggered timing in the rollout of the program across municipalities along with its eligibility rule for determining participation to perform a difference-in-differences […]
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Equating Cognitive Scores across Rounds and Cohorts for Young Lives in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
2020 Juan Leon
For longitudinal studies such as Young Lives, getting comparable measures of children ́s cognitive abilities over time is essential for identifying individual, family, school or contextual variables that affect children ́s development. Few longitudinal studies that follow birth/age cohorts have comparable cognitive measures over time; of those that are available, most are from developed countries […]
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Brechas que perduran: una radiografía de la exclusión social en Perú
2019 Lorena Alcazar
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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Los accidentes en los niños. Un estudio en contexto de pobreza
2012Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, , ,
Este estudio pretende cubrir el vacío de información en torno a la magnitud de la problemática de las lesiones accidentales en la niñez, así como en relación con los factores que pueden estar asociados a su presencia en el contexto peruano.
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Los efectos de choques transitorios en resultados de largo plazo: efectos adversos del clima en la acumulación de capital humano en los Andes Peruanos
2012Alan Sanchez,
El efecto de largo plazo de la exposición a eventos de frio inusual en los Andes Peruanos durante etapas tempranas del ciclo de vida sobre los ingresos, educación y una serie de dimensiones de bienestar alcanzados en la etapa adulta.
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Equidad en la Diferencia: Políticas para la Movilidad Social de Grupos de Identidad. Misión de Movilidad Social y Equidad
2012,
Este documento de política se propone (i) documentar la evidencia existente sobre las desigualdades definidas por la pertenencia a un grupo étnico, la identidad sexual o una situación de discapacidad en Colombia, (ii) analizar las mejores prácticas internacionales y nacionales para reducir dichas inequidades y (iii), a partir de (i) y (ii), derivar recomendaciones de […]
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Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality of Opportunity in Peru: Taking Advantage of the Longitudinal Dimension of Young Lives
2011Javier Escobal,
Utilizando la información recogida en el Perú durante las dos primeras rondas de encuestas del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio/Young Lives, se describe cómo la pobreza multidimensional y la desigualdad de oportunidades evoluciona a medida que el niño crece.
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Impact Evaluation for Policy Making: A Close Look at Latin American Countries with Weaker Research Capacities
2012, , Martin Valdivia,
The study looks at the way impact evaluation studies are being used for policy making in countries in the region that are a priori considered less capable to absorb the current trend observed in other more developed countries in the region.
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JournalHealth Policy and Planning
Public health infraestructure and equity in the utilization of outpatient health care services in Peru
2002Martin 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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JournalInternational Review of Education
Determinant of school performance among Quechua children in the Peruvian Andes
1999, Santiago Cueto,
In the rural Andes of Peru, primary school inefficiency ranks higher than in the rest of the country, with a nearly 50 per cent rate of first grade repetition.
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JournalTrimestre económico
Los activos de los pobres en el Perú
1999Javier Escobal, Maximo Torero,
Análisis de la posesión y acceso a activos de los pobres en el Perú. Se encuentra que durante los pasados diez años ha aumentado el nivel promedio y se ha reducido la desigualdad en el acceso a la educación.
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JournalRevista de Educación
Factores predictivos del rendimiento escolar en un grupo de alumnos de escuelas rurales
1997Santiago Cueto, ,
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JournalBoletín de Opinión
Diversificación en un modelo dinámico de hogares rurales con incertidumbre
1996Martin 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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Education and poverty in Peru
Unequal schools, unequal chances: the Challenges to equal opportunity in the Americas2000Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui, ,
El logro de altas tasas de matrícula en el Perú en los últimos decenios puede explicarse por la capacidad que han tenido los gobiernos de contener los costos de personal y limitar los gastos en educación superior.
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Land markets and the persistence of rural poverty: post-liberalization policy options
Rural poverty in Latin America: analytics, new empirical evidence and policy2000Eduardo Zegarra, ,
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La viabilidad externa sostenibilidad de la balanza de pagos
Cuestión Perú: desarrollo socioeconómico en el mediano plazo1999,
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A case study of Manthoc, the movement of working children in Peru
Old enough to work, old enough to have a say1998,
Principios de autonomía de Manthoc como organización, su afán por la representación de los niños, su orientación hacia el conjunto de niños parte de los movimientos de NATs e implementación de una metodología.
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Ajuste macroeconómico y distribución del ingreso en el Perú 1985-1994
¿Cómo estamos?: análisis de la encuesta de niveles de vida1996Javier Escobal, Jorge Aguero,
Se muestra una caída en el gasto global de los hogares en el Perú, durante el período de crisis y ajuste, menor a lo que las cifras agregadas sugieren y la evolución de la distribución del gasto.
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Projects
- Nuevos dilemas en el análisis y seguimiento público de la desigualdad étnica en el PerúApril 2011 - September 2012
- Preparation of material for the sectorial note on Social ProtectionNovember 2010 - February 2011
- Conceptual framework on the relation between social and cultural inequities and students’ performanceNovember 2010 - November 2010
- The situation of childhood in PeruJuly 2010 - September 2010
- Design of a differentiated graduation strategy for beneficiary homes of the Juntos ProgramMay 2010 - July 2010
- Impact assessment of the Project for Empowerment of Business WomenApril 2010 - September 2010
- Quick Institutional Assessment of the Comprehensive Nutritional School Program of the PRONAAAJanuary 2010 - April 2010
- Water, sanitation and child healthJanuary 2010 - June 2010
- Regional Office of the Network of Economic Policies and Poverty, second roundNovember 2009 - September 2011
- Young Lives – communications 2009-2010July 2009 - March 2010
News
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Bangkok: Members of GRADE joined the Think Tank Initiative 2018 as panelists and workshop participants
November 26, 2018 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, Urbanization and sustainable cities
After almost a decade of organizational support, the Think Tank Initiative brought together representatives of think tanks, policymakers, donors and other research-to-policy actors for a final Think Tank Initiative Exchange to mark the last year of the program. This Exchange built on a decade of TTI lessons, experiences and insights on the challenges of building […]
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Alan Sánchez shares the main quantitative findings of Niños del Milenio/Young Lives Peru
July 24, 2018 Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
We share a Southern Voice article by our senior researcher, Alan Sánchez, on the main quantitative findings of Niños del Milenio/Young Lives Peru. After tracking 2,750 children for 15 years in Peru, unique evidence about the role of social programs, differences in nutritional and educational trajectories, and skills formation, has been collected.
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Stories about children. Oswaldo Molina writes about the 15 years of Young Lives Peru
June 23, 2018 Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
What is it like to be a poor child in Peru? Oswaldo Molina, director of the Master’s in Economics at Universidad del Pacífico, writes in El Comercio about the findings of Young Lives Peru during 15 years of research. Although, in general terms, the study shows that the welfare of families has improved in these […]
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Young Lives Peru releases a summary of is findings on the drivers and impacts of childhood poverty in Peru
June 18, 2018 Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
The longitudinal study Young Lives Peru has published a summary of the findings of five rounds of surveys applied to children and their families —in the years 2002, 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2016—. These findings provide a broad overview of some indicators of child poverty, and account for changes in the lives of children and youth during […]
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Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, addresses in Foco Económico the discussion around the new poverty numbers in Peru: “Having more urban poor than rural poor was the new that attracted the most attention. For the first time, the percentage of urban poor was statistically higher than 50%. What did not attract attention, because it is […]
Events
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Hugo Ñopo joins the release of CAF Report on Economics and Development 2016
24/10/2016 8:20 am - 11:00 am Auditorio Juan Julio Wicht de la Universidad del Pacífico (Jr. Sánchez Cerro 2121, Jesús María) Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, discussed the abilities as pillars for human capital and development, as part of the release of CAF Report on Economics and Development 2016. The event, which addressed “Abilities for work and life: family, environment and labor world inputs”, took place on October 24th at Universidad del Pacífico. Also joined the panel: Jaime Saavedra, Minister of Education; Cayetana […]
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Cuzco: Javier Escobal and Hugo Ñopo join MIDIS 5th Social Inclusion Week
21/10/2016 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Centro de Convenciones de la Municipalidad Provincial de Cusco Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality
The development and social inclusion policy promoted by the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS) sets a life cycle approach, which responds to the need to generate flexible and adaptable models to raise the quality of life and reduce the risk conditions that households face in a changing context. Through its Inter-Ministerial Social Affairs Board, MIDIS promotes agreements to define flagship goals for social sector […]
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Alan Sánchez and Vanessa Rojas will be speakers at the Youth & Gender Young Lives Conference
08/09/2016 → 09/09/2016 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford Education and learning, Poverty and equality
Our researchers, Alan Sánchez and Vanessa Rojas, will be speakers at the Adolescence, Youth and Gender Young Lives Conference, on Thursday 8 and Friday 9, September 2016, at University of Oxford. This two-day international conference will promote dialogue and critical reflection on the latest evidence, paradigms, concepts and approaches to adolescence, youth and gender in international development and consider the implications […]
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Javier Escobal will join the MEF and World Bank ‘Growth and Social Inclusion’ Panel Discussion
21/07/2016 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Poverty and equality
Our senior researcher, Javier Escobal, will be joining the Growth and Social Inclusion Panel Discussion, organized by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru and the World Bank, on Thursday, 21 July 2016. According to the agenda, after the welcome from the World Bank, Jaime Saavedra, Minister of Education of Peru, will discuss the Education policies, progress, achievements and outcomes. […]
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Our researchers will join the 5th Latin American Congress of Economic History, in São Paulo
19/07/2016 → 21/07/2016 School of Economics, Management and Accounting of University of Sao Paulo Poverty and equality
Our researchers Ricardo Fort, Miguel Jaramillo and Héctor Paredes will speak on ‘Political Economy for territory inequality in Peru: a long term view’, at the 5th Latin American Congress of Economic History (CLADHE V), on July 19-21, in São Paulo, Brasil. The event will provide an academic environment to discuss the latest research in economic history of Latin America, as well […]
- 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
