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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Young lives, interrupted: Short‑term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in low- and middleincome countries
2021 Alan Sanchez, Marta Favara, Richard Freund, Catherine Porter, Douglas Scott
This study contributes to the understanding of how severely a cohort of adolescents have been impacted by the crisis, using comparable longitudinal data from four Low- and Middle- Income countries (LMICs) that have been very differently affected by the health crisis: Ethiopia, India (states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru and Vietnam. In particular, Peru […]
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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
2020 Alan Sanchez, Guido Melendez, Jere Behrman
Researchers evaluate whether the Juntos conditional cash transfer program in Peru has a larger effect on children who benefited initially from the program during the first 4 years of life compared with those children who benefited initially between ages 5 and 8. The former group was exposed during early-life sensitive periods, received the program for […]
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The power of believing you can get smarter the impact of a growth-mindset intervention on academic achievement in Peru
2020 Ingo W. Outes-Leon, Alan Sanchez, Renos Vakis
This paper evaluates the academic impact of a growth-mindset intervention on students starting the secondary level in public schools in urban Peru. ¡Expande tu Mente! is a 90-minute school session aimed at instilling the notion that a person´s own intelligence is malleable. Students in schools randomly assigned to treatment showed a small improvement in math […]
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JournalReview of Development Studies
Understanding teenage fertility in Peru: An analysis using longitudinal data
2020 Marta Favara, Pablo Lavado, Alan Sanchez
Reducing the prevalence of teenage pregnancy remains an elusive goal for public policy in Peru. Researchers use longitudinal data from the Young Lives Study in Peru to investigate on an extensive set of early circumstances and life changes that might be the risk factors for teenage childbearing—about one out of five girls in the sample […]
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Medición de la prevalencia de la violencia física y psicológica hacia niñas, niños y adolescentes, y sus factores asociados en el Perú. Evidencia de Niños del Milenio
2019 Alan Sanchez, Alessandra Hidalgo
The prevalence of violence —in particular against children and adolescents— is one of the great pending challenges in Peru. This paper uses data from the Young Lives longitudinal study with two objectives: first, to document the prevalence of experiences of physical and psychological violence suffered by children and adolescents; and second, to analyze the life cycle factors […]
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Early Nutrition and Cognitive Achievement in Pre-school Children in Peru
2009 Alan Sanchez
This paper examines the relationship between early stunting and later cognitive achievement.
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JournalEconomics & Human Biology
Height in mid childhood and psychosocial competencies in late childhood: Evidence from four developing countries
2013 Stefan Dercon, Alan Sanchez
We use longitudinal data from children growing up in four developing countries (Peru, India, Vietnam, Ethiopia) to study the relationship between height at the age of 7-8 and a set of psychosocial competencies measured at the age of 11-12 that are known to be correlated with earnings during adulthood: self-efficacy, self-esteem and aspirations. Results show […]
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Journal Revista de Estudios Económicos
Impacto del programa Juntos sobre nutrición temprana
2012 Miguel Jaramillo, Alan Sanchez
En este trabajo se explora el impacto del programa de transferencias condicionadas Juntos sobre el estado nutricional de niños menores de 5 años.
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JournalRevista Moneda
¿Qué sabemos sobre los programas de transferencias condicionadas? Lecciones de la experiencia
2011 Alan Sanchez, Judith Guabloche
Se discute los resultados por las transferencias monetarias condicionadas a la población en pobreza durante los últimos años en indicadores de capital humano de países de América Latina y analizan las implicancias de estos hallazgos.
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JournalRevista de Estudios Económicos
Dolarización financiera, el enfoque de portafolio y expectativas: evidencia para América Latina
2012 Alan Sanchez
El objetivo de este documento es probar la relevancia empírica del enfoque de portafolio de varianza mínima (PVM) utilizando información de 15 países de América Latina en el período 1995-2005.
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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