Juan León Jara-Almonte
Senior Researcher
PhD in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education - Pennsylvania State University
jleon@grade.org.pe
Juan has a PhD in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education from Pennsylvania State University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with mention in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE.
His research interests are inequality in education, intercultural bilingual education, early childhood, testing policies and school effectiveness.
Publications
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Acceso a dispositivos y habilidades digitales de dos cohortes en el Perú
2020 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon,
The technical note on which this policy brief is based details the construction of two indicators: basic computer skills and basic internet skills. This document also explores the determinants of access and digital skills in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. However, this publication focuses on the findings for Peru.
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Predictores de la deserción escolar en el Perú
2020 Santiago Cueto, , Juan Leon
The paper on which this policy brief is based analyzes what factors are associated with dropping out of school in the four countries covered by the Young Lives longitudinal study: Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. For this, personal, family and educational factors are considered. This policy brief focuses on the findings of Peru.
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Predictors of school dropout across Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
2020 Santiago Cueto, Claudia Felipe, Juan Leon
In this paper the authors utilize the five rounds of Young Lives household surveys across four countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam) to study the characteristics of children who had dropped out of school by 22 years of age. While most children in the longitudinal sample go to primary school, they tend to drop out […]
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Transmisión intergeneracional de la educación. Los efectos directos e indirectos de la educación materna en el desarrollo infantil en una región de la selva peruana
2020 Juan Leon, Martín Benavides, Fernando Alarcón, María Grazia Erausquín., Ana Salas
The fact that more educational opportunities have been opened in developing countries has led to a reduction in gender-related educational disparities. Increased levels of schooling for women have potentially important social consequences for boys and girls, in terms of health and well-being. This study explores both the direct and indirect effects of maternal education on […]
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Equating Cognitive Scores across Rounds and Cohorts for Young Lives in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
2020 Juan Leon
For longitudinal studies such as Young Lives, getting comparable measures of children ́s cognitive abilities over time is essential for identifying individual, family, school or contextual variables that affect children ́s development. Few longitudinal studies that follow birth/age cohorts have comparable cognitive measures over time; of those that are available, most are from developed countries […]
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Charting progress in learning outcomes in Peru using national assessments
2013 César Guadalupe, Juan Leon, Santiago Cueto
Se analiza evidencia reciente sobre logros de aprendizaje en el Perú desde 3 puntos de vista: niveles de logro de aprendizaje, brechas de equidad en los logros de aprendizaje y la relación entre logros de aprendizaje y características de los maestros.
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Los accidentes en los niños. Un estudio en contexto de pobreza
2012 Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Maria Laura Veramendi, Ana María D’Azevedo
Este estudio pretende cubrir el vacío de información en torno a la magnitud de la problemática de las lesiones accidentales en la niñez, así como en relación con los factores que pueden estar asociados a su presencia en el contexto peruano.
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What works to improve teacher attendance in developing countries? A systematic review
2012 Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Mayli Zapata, Claudia Sugimaru, Santiago Cueto
Previous studies have found national averages of teacher absenteeism in developing countries that range from 3 percent to 27 percent. However, within countries absenteeism is larger in poorer, more isolated schools, contributing to unequal educational opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to report on a systematic review of research on the effectiveness of interventions […]
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De quinto de primaria al fin de la secundaria en seis años: un estudio longitudinal en Puno
2010 Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Claudia Sugimaru, Juan Leon, Álvaro Zevallos
This study reports the results of a longitudinal design in which 304 students from urban and rural areas of Puno were followed. The students included were in fifth grade of primary school in 2000 and were due to be in fifth grade of secondary school (the end of basic education) in 2006, when they were […]
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Promoting early childhood development through a public programme: Wawa Wasi in Peru
2009 Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Claudia Sugimaru
This paper presents the results of a Young Lives study into the impact and perceptions of the Programa Nacional Wawa Wasi, a Peruvian government programme for impoverished children aged six to 48 months. Up to eight children spend five days a week at a Wawa Wasi centre where they are assisted by a carer carefully […]
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JournalRevista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación
Behaviors, Strategies and Achievement in Reading Comprehension in PISA: Analysis for Peru
2016 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon, Ismael G. Muñóz, Elizabeth Rosales
Learning to read is internationally considered a central goal of schooling. In this analysis we used data from PISA on reading comprehension for Peru, with the aim of determining if the socioeconomic characteristics of students are associated with their performance, behaviors and educational strategies, as well as with their school environment. Regarding educational resources for […]
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JournalAssessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice
Classroom composition and its association with students’ achievement and socioemotional characteristics in Peru
2016 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon, Alejandra Miranda
School composition is a topic that has gained increasing attention from researchers over the past few years, as it has been found that the socio-economic characteristics of students are associated with their achievement. However, most research has been cross-sectional and carried out in industrialised countries. In the study, the authors use parental education as a […]
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JournalInternational Journal of Educational Research
Does pre-school improve cognitive abilities among children with early-life stunting? A longitudinal study for Peru
2015 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon, Kirk Dearden, Benjamin Crookston, Jere R Behrman, Jere R. Behrman
Several studies in developing countries have found that children who experience growth faltering in the first years of life show lower cognitive abilities than their peers. In this study, we use the Young Lives longitudinal dataset in Peru to analyze if attending pre-school affects cognitive abilities at age five years, and if there is an […]
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Journal International Journal of Educational Research
Does pre-school improve cognitive abilities among children with early-life stunting?: a longitudinal study for Peru
2016 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon, Alejandra Miranda, Kirk Dearden, Benjamin T. Crookston, Jere R. Behrman
Several studies in developing countries have found that children who experience growth faltering in the first years of life show lower cognitive abilities than their peers. In this study, we use the Young Lives longitudinal dataset in Peru to analyze if attending pre-school affects cognitive abilities at age five years, and if there is an […]
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JournalSilex: Revista Interdisciplinaria
El éxito educativo de la región Moquegua, un análisis de la gestión pedagógica e institucional en tres niveles: regional, local y de institución educativo
2015 Claudia Sugimaru, Juan Leon
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Oportunidades de aprendizaje y rendimiento en matemática de los estudiantes de tercero y cuarto grados de primaria en Lima y Ayacucho
Educación, procesos pedagógicos y equidad: cuatro Mimeos de investigación2004 Santiago Cueto, Cecilia Ramírez, Juan Leon, Gabriela Guerrero
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Projects
- Support for the Inter-institutional Technical Committee of Ethnicity StatisticsNovember 2013 - October 2013
- Study of the management and educational pedagogical practice in three Peruvian regionsSeptember 2013 - November 2013
- Teaching and Learning Study: achieving quality for all for the 2013 Annual Report of Educación para Todos (Education for All).June 2013 - December 2013
- Baseline: use of time in public educational institutionsMay 2013 - February 2014
- Design of cognitive tests for the impact evaluation of Qali WarmaApril 2013 - June 2013
- Young Lives Study (continuation)April 2013 - March 2014
- Measuring education quality in Peruvian schoolsApril 2013 - April 2016
- Preparation of technical foundations and tools for the analysis of factors associated to child developmentMarch 2013 - June 2013
- Childhood, violence and developmentJanuary 2013 - December 2013
- Review of the Logical Framework of the National Program against Family ViolenceNovember 2012 - January 2013
Media
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Selected Publications
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Is education a risk factor or social vaccine against HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa? The effect of schooling across public health periods
2017 Juan Leon, David Baker, Daniel Salinas, Adrienne Henck
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The population education transition curve: education gradients across population exposure to new health risks
2017 David Baker, William C. Smith, Ismael G. Muñoz, Haram Jeon, Tian Fu, Juan Leon, Daniel Salinas, Renata Horvatek
