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Analysis of El Comercio highlights the Young Lives study, Stratification of returns to higher education in Peru
“During the pandemic, having studied in a good quality institution served as a protective factor against the crisis. In contrast, no significant effects were found in the case of those who attended lower quality universities.” Regarding the policy proposal for free university admission, El Comercio highlighted the recent findings of Alan Sánchez, Catherine Porter and […]
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Young, rural and low-income women lost more their jobs during the pandemic
“The research calculated that 34% of female heads of households lost their jobs compared to 28% of their male counterparts, as this problem is much more profound in Peru, El Salvador, Honduras and Bolivia. More than half of the women female heads of households who are in charge of children under 6 have seen their […]
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Lorena Alcázar joined a CIES-UNDP dialogue on the transformative role of young people in the pandemic. Note from La Mula
“A dropout shock in education is going to be an important determinant that in the future young people have a higher probability of having a precarious job.” Lorena Alcázar was one of the panelists of the virtual dialogue held by the Consortium for Economic and Social Research and the United Nations Development Program Peru on youth and […]
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Hugo Ñopo in Cuarto Poder: Education in times of pandemic
“What it is about is to do the best we can given the existing conditions. Clearly this is not a replacement for face-to-face. It is a temporary solution that we can have while our children cannot leave the houses.” Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, participated in this Cuarto Poder reportage on education in times of […]
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El Comercio highlights research findings by Hugo Ñopo and Ana Paula Franco on the situation of young people in Peru
“Younger people take longer to complete their studies and enter the labor market; or they are in the NEET (Not in Education, Employement or Training) segment”. El Comercio highlights the research findings of Hugo Ñopo and Ana Paula Franco, “Ser joven en el Perú: educación y trabajo” (Being young in Peru: education and work), published […]
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Op-ed by journalist Daniela Meneses highlights findings from three studies of the book Violence against Women
“The risks of domestic violence are greater when lower levels of education for the couple and higher educational achievements for wives than for husbands come together”. La op-ed by the journalist Daniela Meneses for the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio highlights the findings of three studies of the book “Violence Against Women: the need for a double plural”, edited by our […]
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Southern Voice: Precariousness still affects education and employment in Peru and Bolivia
On the sidelines of the 2019 annual congress of the Peruvian Association of Economics (APE), Southern Voice hosted a panel on the precariousness of education and employment in Peru and Bolivia. Our senior researcher Lorena Alcázar, Werner Hernani, researcher at Fundación ARU and economist Hugo Ñopo discussed their findings. In this article we share key takeaways from the discussion. Precariousness […]
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Oswaldo Molina highlights Alan Sanchez and Marta Favara findings on the impact of JEC on teenage pregnancy
An op-ed by Oswaldo Molina, director of the Master in Economics at the Universidad del Pacífico, in El Comercio, highlights the findings of Alan Sanchez, Senior Researcher at GRADE and Young Lives Peru, and Marta Favara, Researcher at the University of Oxford, on the impact of the Peruvian extended school-day reform (Jornada Escolar Completa, JEC) on several […]
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An op-ed by Richard Webb cites Eduardo Zegarra’s estimation of land reconcentration
The recent article by Richard Webb, director at the San Martin de Porres University’s Institute of Peru, “Harvesting figures”, addresses the influence of two figures related to agriculture: one in regard of the origin of the agrarian reform and another in regard to the growth of the agricultural sector during the last two centuries. Regarding the first figure, […]
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Alfredo Thorne, ex Minister of Economy and Finance, highlights Miguel Jaramillo’s findings on short-term contracts
What is expected from an economy in transformation? The research findings of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo on short-term contracts are highlighted by Alfredo Thorne, ex Minister of Economy and Finance. The main conclusion of the study is that there is a great labor mobility within formal employment: workers move between jobs, allowing them to migrate to more productive […]