Alan Sánchez Jiménez
Senior Researcher
PhD in Economics - University of Oxford
asanchez@grade.org.pe
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 evaluation and social development policies. Prior, he was a Senior Economist in the Economic Research Division of the Banco Central de Reserva del Peru (Central Bank of Peru). His areas of interests are education economics, health economics, labour economics and behavioral economics. In particular, he is interested in meausuring the causes and consequences of accumulating human capital throughout the life cycle, in the evaluation of social programmes through experimental and quasi-experimental methodology, and in the design of surveys.
Publications
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Unpacking the Post-lockdown Employment Recovery of Young Women in the Global South
2021 Douglas Scott, Richard Freund, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, Alan Sanchez
This paper analyses the difference in short-term employment recovery between young men and women in India, Peru and Vietnam following the national lockdowns imposed in all three countries during 2020. The authors employ a mediation model to establish whether – and to what extent – commonly suggested mechanisms are responsible for a relatively slower recovery among […]
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JournalInternational Journal of Educational Development
The relationship between access to pre-school education and the development of social-emotional competencies: Longitudinal evidence from Peru
2021 Briyit Arapa, Eduardo Sánchez, Alejandra Hurtado-Mazeyra, Alan Sanchez
Authors evidence of the role pre-school has in the development of social-emotional competencies. We used data from the Young Lives longitudinal study in Peru to test the relationship between attendance to pre-school education with agency and pride at ages 8, 12, and 15, and self-efficacy and self-esteem at ages 12 and 15. They found that […]
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JournalNutrients
Role of Government Financial Support and Vulnerability Characteristics Associated with Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Young Peruvians
2021 Katherine Curi-Quinto, Alan Sanchez, Nataly Lago-Berrocal, Mary E Penny, Claudia Murray, Richard Nunes, Marta Favara, Anisha Wijeyesekera, Julie Lovegrove, Victor Soto-Cáceres, Karani Santhanakrishnan Vimaleswaran
Using data from the longitudinal study Young Lives Peru, the authors investigated the profile of the young people in the study affected by food insecurity during the pandemic. They take into account the sociodemographic characteristics of Peruvian prendemic households and other shocks that made them more vulnerable. They also assess the government’s response role
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The Challenges of Inequality and COVID-19 for Young People in Peru: Evidence from the Listening to Young Lives at Work COVID-19 Phone Survey
2021 Kath Ford, Santiago Cueto, Alan Sanchez
This policy brief looks at the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of adolescents and young people in Peru as they transition into adulthood, focusing on how widening inequalities are hitting those from disadvantaged backgrounds hardest.
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JournalInternational Journal of Epidemiology
Cohort Profile Update: The Young Lives study
2021 Marta Favara, Gina Crivello, Mary Penny, Catherine Porter, Ellanka Revathi, Alan Sanchez, Douglas Scott, Le Thuc Duc, Tassew Woldehanna, Andy McKay
• Young Lives is a longitudinal study tracking two cohorts of children in four low-and-middle-income countries [Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam]. • The survey started in 2002 and three rounds were completed by 2009. Two further rounds took place in 2013 (round 4) and 2016 (round 5). Most recently the round planned for 2020 was […]
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Juventud y desarrollo: resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Cuarta ronda de encuestas en el Perú
2015 Alan Sanchez, Guido Meléndez
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Cambios en el bienestar de los hogares: resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Cuarta ronda de encuestas en el Perú
2015 Alan Sanchez, Guido Meléndez
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Productividad y tratados de libre comercio a nivel de empresas en Perú
2014 Nikita Céspedes, Maria E. Aquije, Alan Sanchez, Rafael Vera-Tudela
We study the empirical relationship between free trade agreement and productivity in Peru by using a pseudo experimental model. Two productivity indicators, which are measured at the firm level are considered: labor productivity and total factor productivity. We find that firms involved in international free trade either as exporters and / or importers have systematically […]
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The structural relationship between nutrition, cognitive and non-cognitive skills: evidence from four developing countries
2013 Alan Sanchez
Sánchez studies the way in which cognitive and non-cognitive skills are simultaneously acquired in the transition from childhood to adolescence using longitudinal data from four countries: Peru, India, Vietnam and Ethiopia.
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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
2012 Diether Beuermann, Alan 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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JournalEconomic Development and Cultural Change
Impact of Juntos Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Nutritional and Cognitive Outcomes in Peru: Comparison Between Younger and Older Initial Exposure
2019 Alan Sanchez, Guido Meléndez, Jere R. Behrman
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JournalRevista Económica, Sociedad y Estadística
Relación entre embarazo adolescente y maternidad adolescente y resultados educativos y laborales: una aproximación a partir de datos de la ENDES
2018 Alan Sanchez
A pesar de las mejoras observadas en el país en una serie de indicadores sociales y económicos, la prevalencia de madres adolescentes es alta (14,3% en 2017 según la metodología propuesta en este estudio), especialmente en zonas rurales (23,7%, versus 11,8% en zonas urbanas el 2017). Además de su magnitud, destaca el nivel de persistencia de esta prevalencia, la […]
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JournalReview of Development Economics
Psychosocial status and cognitive achievement in Peru
2018 Ingo Outes, Alan Sanchez, Oswaldo Molina
This paper assesses the importance of psychosocial status in the accumulation of cognitive skills during the transition from mid to late childhood. The authors use longitudinal data from a cohort of 700 Peruvian children drawn from a very rich dataset, the Young Lives Survey, to test the impact of children’s perception of respect at the […]
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JournalWorld Development
Accessing Higher Education in Developing Countries: Panel Data Analysis from India, Peru, and Vietnam
Alan Sanchez, Abhijeet Singh
Researchers use unique individual-level panel data from India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru, and Vietnam on a cohort of individuals surveyed from the age of 8 years to 19 years to study factors affecting enrolment in higher education in these middle-income countries. We document (a) that similar to nationally representative data, the proportion having accessed higher education at this […]
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JournalEconomics & Human Biology
The structural relationship between early nutrition, cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills in four developing countries
2017 Alan Sanchez
The author provides evidence about how skills are acquired during childhood. Early height is found to have an effect on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. The effect of early height on cognitive skills more than doubles that for non-cognitive skills. The impact of early height on non-cognitive skills is indirect.
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Selected Publications
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Young Lives, interrupted: short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in low- and middle-income countries
2022 Marta Favara, Richard Freund, Catherine Porter, Alan Sanchez, Douglass Scott
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on anxiety and depression symptoms of young people in the global south: evidence from a four-country cohort study
2021 Alan Sanchez, Catherine Porter, Marta Favara, Annina Hittmeyer, Douglas Scott, Michelle G Craske, Revathi Ellanki, Tassew Woldehanna, Le Thuc Duc, Alan Stein