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  Venciendo la adversidad: trayectorias educativas de estudiantes pobres en zonas rurales del Perú

  2019 Santiago Cueto, Claudia Felipe, Juan Leon

  The Peruvian education system is characterized by high levels of access, low levels of learning and high inequality. There are several reasons why some students access a high level of education and learning, while others do not. In general, it can be affirmed that there is a connection between socioeconomic characteristics and student performance, and […]
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  El conocimiento del contenido por parte de los docentes y su relación con el rendimiento de los estudiantes de sexto de primaria: una mirada a las tres regiones naturales del Perú

  2019 Juan Leon, Claudia Sugimaru, Ana Salas

  Literature has shown the importance of both the figure of the teacher and the variables associated with the educational context, since they directly affect learning and can be influenced by short-term policies. This study determines the knowledge of the content —level of knowledge regarding the disciplinary area taught— of the teachers of Mathematics of the […]
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  Chapter in BookEarly Childhood Matters

  Drone photography improves understanding of spaces for children in Lima

  Martín Benavides, Juan Leon

  The objective is to provide local and central governments with tools that will enable them to monitor and improve public spaces. These tools include indicators – such as the quality of the environment, ease of access for pedestrians, and level of use by families – and instruments for assessing them, such as checklists and drone […]
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  Capital social y logro ocupacional en contextos de segregación

  2019 Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Álvaro Paredes, Diana La Riva

  This study explores the influence of socioeconomic segregation in neighborhoods of Metropolitan Lima on the occupational achievement of heads of households, as well as the relevance of social capital in this relationship. Using the databases of the Nopoor project, a direct, negative and statistically significant relationship is identified between segregation and occupational achievement. In addition, […]
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  JournalSSM Population Health

  Exploring the association between segregation and physical intimate partner violence in Lima, Peru: the mediating role of gender norms and social capital

  2019 Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Manuel Etesse, Lucía Espezúa, Jimena Stuart

  Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been globally recognized as a major public health problem. A growing body of evidence has identified a significant relationship between living in a neighborhood of concentrated disadvantage and experiencing IPV. Considering the increasing rates of poverty and segregation registered in Latin American cities, research on the effects of segregation on […]

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  JournalCurrent HIV Research

  The role of objective numeracy and fluid intelligence in sex-related protective behaviors

  2015 Nathan Dieckmann, Ellen Peters, Juan Leon, Martín Benavides, David Baker, Alison Norris

  A wealth of studies has indicated that greater cognitive ability is related to healthier behaviors and outcomes throughout the lifespan. In the present paper, we focus on objective numeracy (ability with numbers) and present findings from a study conducted in the Peruvian Highlands that examines the relations among formal education, numeracy, other more general cognitive […]
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  JournalJournal of Family Violence

  The Co-Occurrence of Domestic and Child Violence in Urban Peru: Evidence from Three Regions

  2015 Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Marcela Ponce de León

  Using a unique dataset collected from three regions in Peru (Huancavelica, Lima and Loreto), this study explores the co-occurrence of domestic and child violence within households; that is, the situation where a victim of domestic violence (mother) becomes a perpetrator towards other family members (children) in the same household. Secondly, the study seeks to analyze […]
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  JournalIntelligence

  The cognitive impact of the education revolution: A possible cause of the Flynn Effect on population IQ

  2015 David Baker, Paul Eslinger, Martín Benavides, Ellen Peters, Nathan Dieckmann, Juan Leon
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  JournalOxford Review of Education

  The relationship between socioeconomic status at age one, opportunities to learn and achievement in mathematics in fourth grade in Peru

  2014 Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Mayli Zapata, Silvana Freire

  Using Young Lives longitudinal data from Peru, this paper explores the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) measured at the age of one, opportunities to learn (OTL) and achievement in mathematics ten years later. Four variables of OTL were measured: hours of class per year, curriculum coverage, quality of teachers’ feedback, and level of cognitive demand. […]
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  JournalJournal of Development Effectiveness

  Getting teachers back to the classroom: a systematic review on what works to improve teacher attendance in developing countries

  2013 Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Mayli Zapata, Santiago Cueto

  This article reports on a systematic review of research on the effectiveness of interventions aimed at increasing teacher attendance in developing countries. After a comprehensive search process, nine studies met the inclusion criteria. Pooled effects sizes of included studies were estimated (with the exception of three studies that had unavailable information to calculate their effect […]

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