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Thursday, 18 de January de 2024
[Call] 2024 Methodological Workshop on the use of data from the Young Lives Longitudinal Study
El taller anual de Niños del Milenio busca brindar las herramientas necesarias para que profesionales, que estén cursando sus maestrías o doctorados, aprendan a usar, descargar y analizar los datos que recolecta el estudio. El principal objetivo es aumentar el interés en la producción de trabajos de investigación con aquellos que desean utilizar los datos de […]
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Tuesday, 19 de December de 2023
Building safer and more sustainable food systems in Peru
The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the food insecurity situation of people living in Latin American cities. In Peru, the most vulnerable are facing great difficulties in accessing food, while food market vendors are also struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) partner Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) – a […]
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Monday, 4 de December de 2023
Investigadoras e investigadores de GRADE participan en el XXXIV Seminario Anual de Investigación CIES 2023
Del 5 al 7 de diciembre, investigadoras e investigadores de GRADE serán expositores, moderadores y comentaristas en el XXXIV Seminario Anual de Investigación CIES 2023. El evento, organizado por el Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES) de manera presencial, abordará el tema Cambios en la globalización y los retos del desarrollo sostenible en el Perú. A continuación, […]
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Thursday, 9 de November de 2023
Edutainment, savings, and generational differences in rural areas of Peru
We wrote, produced, and implemented a randomized five-episode soap opera on financial inclusion targeted to women from poor, rural areas ravaged by terrorism in Peru. We go beyond measuring attitudes and perceptions but observe actual savings accounts using bank data. Older women, those who directly suffered from terrorist violence, respond very well and save more […]
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Sunday, 15 de October de 2023
Resilience in the time of a pandemic: developing public policies for ollas comunes in Peru
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has created economic, social, and food security crises in many countries throughout the world. Faced with growing hunger in Peru, and the government’s delayed and inadequate reaction, the most important response came from the citizens themselves, particularly the women, in the form of thousands of social care initiatives known as ollas […]
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Wednesday, 9 de August de 2023
Soap operas and pro-savings attitudes in poor rural areas of Peru.
We wrote, produced, and implemented a randomized intervention of a five-episode soap opera focusing on attitudes related to trust and savings. It was shown to females living in poor and violence-scarred rural areas and who received the national conditional cash transfer. We find that one year after the intervention treated females significantly improve their attitudes […]
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Monday, 7 de August de 2023
Edutainment, savings and dwelling-related assets in poor rural areas of Peru
We exploit a field experiment by Chong and Valdivia (2023) and test whether por women from rural areas in developing countries that are able to save seek dwellingrelated assets and find causal evidence that this is indeed the case. Furthermore, we also find that the older cohort of women, those aged forty and higher, also […]
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Thursday, 3 de August de 2023
Investigadores de GRADE serán expositores y comentaristas en el Congreso Anual 2023 de la Asociación Peruana de Economía (APE)
Investigadores de GRADE serán expositores y comentaristas en el VIII Congreso Anual 2023 de la Asociación Peruana de Economía (APE). El evento, organizado por la la Escuela de Posgrado de la Universidad Privada del Norte, se llevará a cabo los días 11 y 12 de agosto de 2023 en la ciudad de Trujillo. Además de las conferencias magistrales […]
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Tuesday, 27 de June de 2023
Javier Escobal on The Dialogue’s Latin America Advisor: What Can Be Done to Reduce Peru’s Rate of Poverty?
“Urgent action is needed to overhaul the Peruvian civil servant system, which will help curb rampant corruption and enable the public sector to focus on fostering growth and reducing poverty”. Read the full commentary by our Senior Researcher Javier Escobal in the Inter-American Dialogue’s daily Latin America Advisor. Javier’s text is part of the article […]
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Friday, 26 de May de 2023
Gabriela Guerrero will be a panelist in a Fundación Baltazar y Nicolás webinar on parental sensitivity
Parental sensitivity is essential for the formation of a secure bond or attachment with children. The Fundación Baltazar y Nicolás is organizing the webinar Determinants of parental sensitivity in Peru, 2021: a probabilistic analysis of the COVID-19 Continuous Impact Evaluation. Gabriela Guerrero, Research Director and Principal Investigator at GRADE, will be one of the panelists. ON […]