Researchers

Researchers

  • Javier Endo

    Javier Endo Endo

    Student in Economics - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

    Javier is a student of Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He supports Juan León, Senior Researcher, as an Intern in the “Implementation of the Remote Tutoring Programme in Peru” Project.

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  • Javier Escobal

    Javier Escobal D`Angelo

    PhD in Economic Development - Wageningen University

    Javier holds a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, and a Master’s degree from New York University, where he also carried out doctoral studies in Economics. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. He is also Co-Researcher in the Young Lives/Niños del Milenio longitudinal study, which follows more than 2000 children during the […]

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  • Aurora Escudero

    Aurora Escudero Llontop

    Degree in Sociology - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

    Aurora holds a degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and is a student of the Master in Educational Policies for Global Development at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of Glasgow. She is interested in investigating the historical legacies of public policies and the influence of international organizations in the construction of public policies. Through […]

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  • Álvaro Espinoza

    Álvaro Espinoza Benza

    Master in Political Science - New School of Social Research

    Álvaro graduated in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the New School of Social Research in New York. He is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE. His work has focused on public management, institutional economics and urban development. Álvaro has a broad experience as a […]

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  • Dianela Espinoza

    Dianela Espinoza Fernández

    BA in Economics - Universidad de Piura

    Dianela is an economist from the University of Piura. At GRADE, she supports Alan Sanchez in the “Young Lives at Work” and “Nutrition, Lifestyle, Genes and Metabolome – A Biosocial Cohort Study of Obesity and its Consequences for Non-Communicable Diseases in Young Adults from Urban Peru” projects.    

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  • Mauricio Espinoza

    Mauricio Espinoza Hermoza

    PhD candidate in Economic Development - Wageningen University & Reseach

    Mauricio is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE. He holds a master’s degree in Agriculture, Environment and Regional Economics from Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is currently a PhD candidate in Economic Development at Wageningen University & Reseach in the Netherlands. His areas of […]

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  • Marta Favara

    Marta Favara

    PhD in Economics - University of Essex

    Marta is a Senior Researcher at the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford where she is leading the quantitative research agenda of Young Lives since 2015. She is also a Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin School Programme on African Governance and an IZA Research Affiliate. Before joining Young Lives, she […]

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  • Fernando Fernández

    Fernando Fernández

    PhD student in Economics - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

    Fernando is a PhD student in the Department of Economics of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona. His research interests include the evaluation of social policies in the education, health and employment sectors, using data from Peru, the United States, India a Sierra Leone. He currently collaborates with Hugo Ñopo on two education projects. The first project seeks to understand the gender differences […]

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  • Ricardo Fort

    Ricardo Fort Meyer

    PhD in Economic Development - Wageningen University

    Ricardo Fort is an economist with a Master in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He currently works as a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), where he works on projects related to the economic development of […]

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  • Janos Gabler

    Janos Gabler

    Master's student in Economics - Bonn Universität

    Janos is studying a Master in Economic at the University of Bonn with a specialization in Applied Econometrics and Microeconomics. In GRADE he carried out his Master’s thesis focused on estimating skills training models and simulations of policy changes, for which he used data from the Young Lives study.  

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