Events

GRADE’s researchers join the 3rd Peruvian Economic Association Annual Congress

Date : 05/08/2016 → 06/08/2016
Hour : 8:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location:Campus PUCP (Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel)
Area/s : Employment, productivity and innovation, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, State reform and public institutions

Several of our researchers will join the 3rd Peruvian Economic Association APE Annual Congress, on August 5-6 2016, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. The meeting will gather research economists, mainly Peruvian, to discuss recent studies in diverse fields of Economics. The congress takes part of several activities undertake by APE since its founding in 2014, for promoting and disseminating scientific knowledge in Economics, on Peruvian economic reality in a broader sense.  

Friday, August 5

10:15 – 11:45 | Room N102 | Session 1C:  Conditional Cash Transfers

“Impact of Juntos conditional cash transfer program on nutritional and cognitive outcomes in Peru: does the age of exposure matter?”

Alan Sánchez, GRADE (speaker)
Guido Melendez, MIDIS
Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania

12:00 – 13:30 | Humanities Auditorium | Discussion Panel 1

Los retos de la formación de habilidades, la productividad y el desarrollo para el país

Pablo Sanguinetti, CAF
Augusto de la Torre, World Bank
Viviana Caro, BID
Moderador: Hugo Ñopo, GRADE

15:00 – 16:30 | Room N211 | Session 2C: Violence and Legislation

“Consecuencias de la violencia doméstica contra la mujer sobre el progreso escolar de los niños y niñas del Perú: Un estudio a nivel nacional diferenciando por género”

Lorena Alcázar, GRADE (speaker)
Diego Ocampo, GRADE

Saturday, August 6

10:15 – 11:45 | Room N102 | Session 4B: Labor Market

“Efectos a largo plazo de la exposición temprana al terremoto de Perú en 1970 sobre el mercado laboral y el bienestar”

Nicolás Pazos, GRADE (speaker)
Rubén Neyra, Universidad de Piura

“Effects of fertility on women’s working status”

Miguel Jaramillo, GRADE

10:15 – 11:45 | Room N203 | Session 4F: Natural Resources 2

“Natural resources, redistribution and human capital formation”

Jorge M. Agüero, University of Connecticut
Carlos Felipe Balcázar, World Bank Group
Stanislao Maldonado, Universidad del Rosario (speaker)
Hugo Ñopo, GRADE

12:00 – 13:30 | Humanities Auditorium | Discussion Panel 3

Pobreza, desarrollo económico y políticas económicas en América Latina

Marcelo Neri, EPGE- Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil
Javier Escobal, GRADE
Comments: José Rodríguez, PUCP

Besides, our research assistant Selene Cueva will display the research poster, “Efectos socioeconómicos de la maternidad adolescente en las jóvenes peruanas”.