Researchers
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Martín Benavides Abanto (on leave)
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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Gerardo Damonte Valencia (on leave)
Gerardo Damonte Valencia has an MA and PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University. He carries out research in the field of natural resources at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) (currently on leave) along with his teaching position in the Department of Political Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University in Peru. Gerardo leads […]
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Juana Kuramoto Huamán (on leave)
Juana Kuramoto received a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the University Carnegie Mellon in 1995. She is currently studying for a PhD in Policy Studies and Technological Change at the University of Maastricht and is an Associate Researcher at GRADE. Her fields of interest are technological innovation, scientific and technological policy, and mining. She […]
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Joan J. Martínez
Joan J. Martínez is a candidate for a doctorate of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on labor economics and the economics of education. She applied econometrics with an emphasis on the persistence of inequality through human capital investment decisions. She received a BA in Economics from Universidad […]
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Omar Nolasco
Omar Nolasco Paniagua works as a Pedagogical Assistant for the project “Learning mathematics in a fun way”.
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Tamara Pressman
Tamara Pressman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her research focuses on behavioral economics, game theory and development economics with an emphasis on intrahousehold bargaining and gender issues. She received a master’s degree in economics and a bachelor’s degree in art history and anthropology from McGill.
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Yuri Solari Han
Yuri Solari has a Bachelor´s Degree in Economics from the University of Piura. Currently, she is a Research Fellow supporting Martín Valdivia, Senior Researcher, in the project: Understanding artisanal mining in Madre de Dios.
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Jorge Agüero (1971 - †2023)
Jorge was an External Affiliated Researcher at GRADE. He had a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Master’s degree in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. He was also a member of the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy, and an Associate Professor of the Department of […]
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Lorena Alcázar Valdivia
Lorena has a BA in Economics from the Pacific University in Peru, a Master’s Degree in Political and International Economy from the Kiel Institute of World Economics, and a PhD in Economics from Washington University. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE). Previously, she served as Vice-President […]
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David Alfaro Serrano
David has a PhD in Economics from Columbia University. His research focuses on development economics and international trade.






