Alicia Menendez
Biographic Data
| ID | 963043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alicia Menendez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alicia |
| FAMILY NAME | Menendez |
| SIGNATURE | MENENDEZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9037-617X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Paths to dropout: Barriers to school continuation for girls in rural Malawi
Understanding Improvements in Reading Performance in Liberia: Investigating the Centrality of Text
Clinical Follow-Up in People Living with HIV During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Mexico
Parenting intentions of young sexual minority men living with HIV in Mexico City, Mexico
Young sexual minority men are disproportionately affected by HIV in Mexico. Little is known about their thoughts about childbearing, an issue complicated by sexual identity and HIV serostatus. We conducted 16 in-depth qualitative interviews to explore the parenting desires of young sexual minority men living with HIV in Mexico City. Domains of the questionnaire included (1) parenting desires, (2) preferences about different methods (e.g. adoption…
Using body mapping to explore gender with adolescents in Uttar Pradesh
Young women and girls in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India, face gender inequalities, which threaten their health and well-being. This study used body mapping, a visual participatory research method, to learn from adolescents ages 15 to 17 living in Lucknow slums about how gender norms affect their daily experiences. Forty adolescents participated in body mapping. Their body maps and narratives about those maps demonstrate that starting in adolescence, f…
Understanding Adolescents Experiences with Gender-Based Norms in India through a Participatory Storytelling Game
In India, gender inequalities have deleterious effects on reproductive health outcomes among women and girls. This study used an interactive storytelling game as a qualitative data collection approach to learn about adolescents’ experiences and societal norms regarding gender. Eight sessions were conducted with a total of 30 girls and 10 boys (ages 15–17). Participants created characters, themes, and locations for the stories and shared experienc…
Benchmarking oral reading fluency in the early grades in Nguni languages
To prevent children from falling behind in the developmental sequence of reading, a shared vision of what reading success looks like is required. This paper provides the first benchmarks for early grade oral reading fluency that are necessary (albeit not sufficient) to read for meaning in three Nguni languages – isiZulu, isiXhosa and Siswati - belonging to the Southern Bantu family of African languages. In contrast with previous benchmarking meth…
Understanding young women’s experiences of gender inequality in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh through story circles
Gender inequality poses grave consequences for young women's health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to understand how gender influences the lives of young women living in urban slums of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India using story circles as a research methodology. Narrative-based participatory methods like story circles (which involves sharing individual stories in a group circle on a given topic) can provide the nuance and detail needed t…
Please Like Me
"Women are perceived as either strong and cold or weak and warm. An award-winning journalist and cohost of PBS's Amanpour and Company examines likeability and empowers readers to reject an outdated image of leadership instead of reinventing themselves"-- Even competent women must appear likeable to successfully negotiate a salary, ask for a promotion, or take credit for a job well done, and this minefield is doubly loaded when likeability interse…
Social Protection and Labor Market Outcomes of Youth in South Africa
An Apartheid-driven spatial mismatch between workers and jobs leads to high job search costs for people living in rural areas of South Africa-costs that many young people cannot pay. In this article, the authors examine whether the arrival of a social grant-specifically a generous state-funded old-age pension given to men and women above prime age-enhances the ability of young men in rural areas to seek better work opportunities elsewhere. Based …
Early Childbearing, Human Capital Attainment, and Mortality Risk: Evidence from a Longitudinal Demographic Surveillance Area in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Using a rich longitudinal dataset, we examine the relationship between teen fertility and both subsequent educational outcomes and HIV related mortality risk in rural South Africa. Human capital deficits among teen mothers are large and significant, with earlier births associated with greater deficits. In contrast to many other studies from developed countries, we find no clear evidence of selectivity into teen childbearing in either schooling tr…
The Puzzling Effects of Delaying Schooling on Canadian Wages
We compare the returns on education for graduates of postsecondary institutions who delayed their tertiary education for some time and those who proceeded with no delays. Using a unique survey that collects information on a representative cohort of graduates, we are able to estimate the effects of delaying school among successful graduates abstracting from specific macroeconomic conditions at the time of graduation. We show that graduates who del…
The economic consequences of Aids mortality in South Africa
Paying the Piper: The High Cost of Funerals in South Africa
We analyze funeral arrangements following the deaths of 3,751 people who died between January 2003 and December 2005 in the Africa Centre Demographic Surveillance Area. We find that, on average, households spend the equivalent of a year's income for an adult's funeral, measured at median per capita African (Black) income. Approximately one-quarter of all individuals had some form of insurance, which helped surviving household members defray some …
Fertility changes in Latin America in periods of economic uncertainty
We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different labor market and economic shocks may have affected fertility. Second, we estimate Cox proportional hazard models of transitions to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd birth…
Sex differences in obesity rates in poor countries: Evidence from South Africa
Why Have Urban Poverty and Income Inequality Increased So Much? Argentina, 1991-2001
This article analyzes the trends in income inequality and poverty among Argentine households during the nineties. We assess the effect of changes in labor force participation, unemployment, educational levels, and returns to individual characteristics on income inequality and poverty by using a microsimulation approach. We found that unemployment accounts for a large part of the increase in income inequality and poverty experienced in the past de…
Fertility changes in Latin America in periods of economic uncertainty
We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different labor market and economic shocks may have affected fertility. Second, we estimate Cox proportional hazard models of transitions to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd birth…
Early Childbearing, Human Capital Attainment, and Mortality Risk: Evidence from a Longitudinal Demographic Surveillance Area in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Using a rich longitudinal dataset, we examine the relationship between teen fertility and both subsequent educational outcomes and HIV related mortality risk in rural South Africa. Human capital deficits among teen mothers are large and significant, with earlier births associated with greater deficits. In contrast to many other studies from developed countries, we find no clear evidence of selectivity into teen childbearing in either schooling tr…
Paying the Piper: The High Cost of Funerals in South Africa
We analyze funeral arrangements following the deaths of 3,751 people who died between January 2003 and December 2005 in the Africa Centre Demographic Surveillance Area. We find that, on average, households spend the equivalent of a year's income for an adult's funeral, measured at median per capita African (Black) income. Approximately one-quarter of all individuals had some form of insurance, which helped surviving household members defray some …
The economic consequences of Aids mortality in South Africa
Social Protection and Labor Market Outcomes of Youth in South Africa
An Apartheid-driven spatial mismatch between workers and jobs leads to high job search costs for people living in rural areas of South Africa-costs that many young people cannot pay. In this article, the authors examine whether the arrival of a social grant-specifically a generous state-funded old-age pension given to men and women above prime age-enhances the ability of young men in rural areas to seek better work opportunities elsewhere. Based …
Why Have Urban Poverty and Income Inequality Increased So Much? Argentina, 1991-2001
This article analyzes the trends in income inequality and poverty among Argentine households during the nineties. We assess the effect of changes in labor force participation, unemployment, educational levels, and returns to individual characteristics on income inequality and poverty by using a microsimulation approach. We found that unemployment accounts for a large part of the increase in income inequality and poverty experienced in the past de…
Why Have Urban Poverty and Income Inequality Increased So Much? Argentina, 1991-2001
This article analyzes the trends in income inequality and poverty among Argentine households during the nineties. We assess the effect of changes in labor force participation, unemployment, educational levels, and returns to individual characteristics on income inequality and poverty by using a microsimulation approach. We found that unemployment accounts for a large part of the increase in income inequality and poverty experienced in the past de…
Sex differences in obesity rates in poor countries: Evidence from South Africa
Fertility changes in Latin America in periods of economic uncertainty
We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different labor market and economic shocks may have affected fertility. Second, we estimate Cox proportional hazard models of transitions to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd birth…
Paying the Piper: The High Cost of Funerals in South Africa
We analyze funeral arrangements following the deaths of 3,751 people who died between January 2003 and December 2005 in the Africa Centre Demographic Surveillance Area. We find that, on average, households spend the equivalent of a year's income for an adult's funeral, measured at median per capita African (Black) income. Approximately one-quarter of all individuals had some form of insurance, which helped surviving household members defray some …
The Puzzling Effects of Delaying Schooling on Canadian Wages
We compare the returns on education for graduates of postsecondary institutions who delayed their tertiary education for some time and those who proceeded with no delays. Using a unique survey that collects information on a representative cohort of graduates, we are able to estimate the effects of delaying school among successful graduates abstracting from specific macroeconomic conditions at the time of graduation. We show that graduates who del…
The economic consequences of Aids mortality in South Africa
Early Childbearing, Human Capital Attainment, and Mortality Risk: Evidence from a Longitudinal Demographic Surveillance Area in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Using a rich longitudinal dataset, we examine the relationship between teen fertility and both subsequent educational outcomes and HIV related mortality risk in rural South Africa. Human capital deficits among teen mothers are large and significant, with earlier births associated with greater deficits. In contrast to many other studies from developed countries, we find no clear evidence of selectivity into teen childbearing in either schooling tr…
Social Protection and Labor Market Outcomes of Youth in South Africa
An Apartheid-driven spatial mismatch between workers and jobs leads to high job search costs for people living in rural areas of South Africa-costs that many young people cannot pay. In this article, the authors examine whether the arrival of a social grant-specifically a generous state-funded old-age pension given to men and women above prime age-enhances the ability of young men in rural areas to seek better work opportunities elsewhere. Based …
Understanding young women’s experiences of gender inequality in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh through story circles
Gender inequality poses grave consequences for young women's health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to understand how gender influences the lives of young women living in urban slums of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India using story circles as a research methodology. Narrative-based participatory methods like story circles (which involves sharing individual stories in a group circle on a given topic) can provide the nuance and detail needed t…
Please Like Me
"Women are perceived as either strong and cold or weak and warm. An award-winning journalist and cohost of PBS's Amanpour and Company examines likeability and empowers readers to reject an outdated image of leadership instead of reinventing themselves"-- Even competent women must appear likeable to successfully negotiate a salary, ask for a promotion, or take credit for a job well done, and this minefield is doubly loaded when likeability interse…
Understanding Adolescents Experiences with Gender-Based Norms in India through a Participatory Storytelling Game
In India, gender inequalities have deleterious effects on reproductive health outcomes among women and girls. This study used an interactive storytelling game as a qualitative data collection approach to learn about adolescents’ experiences and societal norms regarding gender. Eight sessions were conducted with a total of 30 girls and 10 boys (ages 15–17). Participants created characters, themes, and locations for the stories and shared experienc…
Benchmarking oral reading fluency in the early grades in Nguni languages
To prevent children from falling behind in the developmental sequence of reading, a shared vision of what reading success looks like is required. This paper provides the first benchmarks for early grade oral reading fluency that are necessary (albeit not sufficient) to read for meaning in three Nguni languages – isiZulu, isiXhosa and Siswati - belonging to the Southern Bantu family of African languages. In contrast with previous benchmarking meth…
Clinical Follow-Up in People Living with HIV During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Mexico
Parenting intentions of young sexual minority men living with HIV in Mexico City, Mexico
Young sexual minority men are disproportionately affected by HIV in Mexico. Little is known about their thoughts about childbearing, an issue complicated by sexual identity and HIV serostatus. We conducted 16 in-depth qualitative interviews to explore the parenting desires of young sexual minority men living with HIV in Mexico City. Domains of the questionnaire included (1) parenting desires, (2) preferences about different methods (e.g. adoption…
Using body mapping to explore gender with adolescents in Uttar Pradesh
Young women and girls in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India, face gender inequalities, which threaten their health and well-being. This study used body mapping, a visual participatory research method, to learn from adolescents ages 15 to 17 living in Lucknow slums about how gender norms affect their daily experiences. Forty adolescents participated in body mapping. Their body maps and narratives about those maps demonstrate that starting in adolescence, f…
Understanding Improvements in Reading Performance in Liberia: Investigating the Centrality of Text
Paths to dropout: Barriers to school continuation for girls in rural Malawi
Population (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)