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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¿Qué diferencia hacen las escuelas? Un estudio de métodos mixtos en colegios secundarios del Perú
2021 Juan Leon, Gabriela Guerrero, Santiago Cueto, Paul Glewwe
The study on which this policy document is based analyzes which factors are associated with good results of students in public secondary educational institutions (IE), despite their adverse socioeconomic condition. For this purpose, a mixed methods design is used that follows a sequential explanatory model, which allows us to explore the effect of different types […]
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What difference do schools make? A mixed methods study in secondary schools in Peru
2021 Juan Leon, Gabriela Guerrero, Santiago Cueto, Paul Glewwe
This study contributes to the scarce literature on school effectiveness in secondary education in Peru by addressing the following questions: i) which educational processes within schools are most influential in math and reading comprehension? and in the case of the most effective schools, ii) what is the importance that principals, teachers, and students place on […]
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La situación educativa de las niñas, niños y adolescentes afroperuanos: una mirada al acceso, resultados y entornos educativos
2021 Juan Leon,
One of the main barriers in our country (and in others countries) to portraying the socioeconomic situation of the Afro-descendant population is the lack of information disaggregated by ethnic group. This article presents the educational situation of Afro-Peruvian girls, boys, and adolescents and provides recommendations to continue developing studies that allow information to be disaggregated […]
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JournalJournal of Interpersonal Violence
Bullying victimization among peruvian children: the predictive role of parental maltreatment
2021 Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Jimena Stuart, Diana La Riva
Bullying among schoolchildren is increasingly being recognized as a major problem. Although previous studies have examined parental maltreatment as a risk factor for bullying, the evidence on this topic remains limited in Latin America. The aim of this study was then to measure the prevalence of bullying victimization among a nationally representative sample of Peruvian […]
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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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Equating Children’s PPVT Scores Across Survey Rounds and Age Cohorts in Peru
2015 Juan Leon, Santiago Cueto, Alejandra Miranda
Young Lives gathers information from children and families through household and child questionnaires as well as children’s cognitive and achievement tests. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) has been used in all survey rounds to date and with both age cohorts. This technical note presents the psychometric analysis performed (using Item Response Theory, IRT) in […]
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Entre el estudio y el trabajo: Las decisiones de los jóvenes peruanos después de concluir la educación básica regular
2013 Juan Leon, Claudia Sugimaru
El estudio da un alcance sobre los factores que determinan que los adolescentes continúen estudios superiores al finalizar sus estudios básicos y las decisiones de los jóvenes sobre su futuro al finalizar la etapa escolar.
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Young Lives School Survey in Peru: Design and Initial Findings
2012 Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Mayli Zapata, Silvana Freire
Se presentan la metodología y los hallazgos iniciales de la encuesta escolar de Niños del Milenio, que estudia la inequidad en las oportunidades y resultados educativos de estudiantes de la cohorte menor del estudio (nacidos entre 2001-2002).
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Características psicosométricas de desarrollo cognitivo e instrumentos de rendimiento en la tercera ronda de Niños del Milenio / Young Lives
2013 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon
Esta nota técnica brinda detalles sobre la confiabilidad y validez de las pruebas aplicadas en la tercera ronda de Niños del Milenio / Young Lives.
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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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JournalDemography
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
The salutary effect of formal education on health-risk behaviors and mortality is extensively documented: ceteris paribus, greater educational attainment leads to healthier lives and longevity. Even though the epidemiological evidence has strongly indicated formal education as a leading “social vaccine,” there is intermittent reporting of counter-education gradients for health-risk behavior and associated outcomes for certain […]
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JournalEducational Studies in Mathematics
Teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge and mathematics achievement of students in Peru
2017 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon, Alejandra Sorto, Alejandra Miranda
After improving enrolment rates significantly, many developing countries such as Peru are facing the challenge to increase learning levels among students. Over the past few years, many researchers have turned to teacher-related variables as a way to better understand classroom processes that may help increase learning levels among students. In this study, we analyze one […]
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JournalRevista Peruana de Investigación Educativa
El efecto de los procesos escolares en el rendimiento en Matemática y las brechas de rendimiento debido a diferencias socioeconómicas de los estudiantes peruanos
2016 Juan Leon, Min-Jong Youn
International, regional and national evaluations have shown that Peruvian students have serious learning deficiencies in math. Thus, in order to improve Peruvian education, it is key to identify variables of school processes that could ameliorate the educational results in terms of educational quality and educational equity. Using 2012 PISA datasets, we estimate a HLM with […]
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JournalInteramerican Journal of Psychology
Early sexual initiation among adolescents in Peru: A longitudinal analysis among 15-year-olds
2016 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon
The percentage of Latin American teenage women, including Peruvian, reporting having had sex is increasing. There are few studies in Latin America aimed at identifying the predictors of this behavior. This study uses a unique longitudinal dataset from Peru to explore which individual, family and community variables, and changes of these over time, predict sexual […]
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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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Educational opportunities and learning outcomes of children in Peru: a longitudinal model
Growing up in poverty: findings from Young Lives2014 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon, Ismael G. Muñoz
This collection brings together the latest evidence from Young Lives, a unique international study that focuses on children and poverty – particularly how poverty affects their development and their lives as children, and how children and their families respond to poverty. It shows how the persistence of inequality amid general economic growth is leaving some […]
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Explaining an Overcoming Marginalization in Education: Ethnic/Language Minorities in Peru
Childhood Poverty: Multidisciplinary Approaches2012 Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Ismael G. Muñoz, Juan Leon, Elisa Seguin
Se sostiene que aunque las tasas de matrícula escolar en el Perú son altas, sobre todo en primaria, existen grandes brechas de rendimiento desfavorables para los niños pobres de ár
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Oportunidades y resultados educativos en la educación básica en el Perú
Políticas Sociales en el Perú. Nuevos Desafíos2010 Juan Leon, Santiago Cueto
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Desarrollo infantil y rendimiento escolar en el Perú
Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú2007 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon
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Oportunidades de aprendizaje y rendimiento en comunicación integral de estudiantes en tercer y cuarto grado de primaria en Lima y Ayacucho
Los desafíos de la escolaridad en el Perú: estudios sobre los procesos pedagógicos, los saberes previos y el rol de las familias2006 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon, Cecilia Ramírez, Sandra Azañedo
Se describirán las oportunidades de aprendizaje en comunicación integral de los estudiantes de tercer y cuarto grados de primaria en 20 escuelas de Lima y Ayacucho, buscando explicar su aprendizaje durante el año.
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Trayectorias educativas en el Perú: desde la infancia hasta la adultez temprana
2017 Santiago Cueto, Alejandra Miranda, Juan Leon, María Cristina Vásquez
Aportes para el diseño de políticas orientadas a reducir la inequidad del sistema educativo peruano, para lo cual se compara las trayectorias de las dos cohortes del estudio Niños del Milenio —la mayor nacida en 1994; y la menor, en el 2001— estimando sus oportunidades educativas y logros. Se basa, principalmente, en las encuestas de hogares aplicadas […]
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Características socioeconómicas y rendimiento de los estudiantes en el Perú
2015 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon, Alejandra Miranda
Aportes para el diseño de políticas orientadas a reducir la inequidad del sistema educativo peruano a través de un diagnóstico de la relación entre el nivel socioeconómico (NSE) de los estudiantes y sus familias, y sus oportunidades para aprender.
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Does the cradle set the opportunities and educative achievement? A look to the Peruvian case
2014 Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Mayli Zapata, Silvana Freire
Este documento pretende ser un aporte para el diseño de políticas para reducir la inequidad del sistema educativo peruano a través del análisis de la asociación entre el nivel socioeconómico (NSE) de los estudiantes, oportunidades de aprendizaje (ODA) y rendimiento educativo.
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Demanda social por programas de atención y educación de la primera infancia (AEPI) en el Perú
2014 Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon
Aportes de información relevante para planificar el escalamiento de los servicios de los programas de AEPI a través de las percepciones y opiniones de sus actores clave en dos regiones del país.
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Inclusión social: diálogos entre la investigación y las políticas públicas
2014 Martín Benavides, Miguel Jaramillo, Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Nestor Valdivia, Lorena Alcazar, Manuel Glave, Maria Balarin, Juan Jose Diaz, Juana Kuramoto, Gerardo Damonte
Esta publicación recoge el espíritu del seminario internacional "Cambios Institucionales para un Estado más Inclusivo" (julio de 2012), y apunta a lo más relevante y valioso de cada exposición, intervención y comentario.
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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
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Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú
2007 Eduardo Zegarra, Veronica Minaya, Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce, Juana Kuramoto, Manuel Glave, Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo, Juan Jose Diaz, Nancy Birdsall, Rachel Menezes, Maximo Torero, José Deustua, Manuel Hernández, Santiago Cueto, Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Martin Valdivia, Nestor Valdivia
Este libro recoge las Mimeos presentadas en la conferencia Investigación, políticas y desarrollo, realidad en el marco del 25 aniversario del Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo.
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Projects
- Young Lives Peru 2017-2018April 2017
- Impact evaluation of Cuna Mas Day Care ServiceFebruary 2017
- Supporting Young Lives Peru 2017 School SurveyJanuary 2017
- Young Lives PeruApril 2016
- The impact of Red Innova Association’s home visits program in MaynasJanuary 2016
- Evaluación de impacto de los Colegios INNOVAJanuary 2016
- Etnicidad y sistemas de informaciónJuly 2015
- Analyzing the results of the National Evaluation in Early Childhood EducationJanuary 2015
- Design of the follow-up and evaluation component of the Early Childhood Development (ECD/DIT) policyMay 2014
- Elaboration of a multiannual programming instrument for public expenses in educationJanuary 2014 - September 2014
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
