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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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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Programa Internacional para la Evaluación de los Estudiantes PISA 2015
2018 Juan Leon
El presente informe nacional analiza los resultados principales de PISA 2015 para nuestro país, tomando en cuenta nuestra realidad y contexto. La información brindada es muy valiosa para apoyar los esfuerzos que se realizan con el fin de alcanzar una educación de calidad para todos.
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JournalSociology of Race and Ethnicity
Access to Higher Education of Afro-Peruvians: Disentangling the Influence of Skin Color and Social Origins in the Peruvian Stratification System
2018 Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Claudia Galindo, Cedric Herring
Despite recent efforts by the Peruvian government to rectify centuries of injustice against Afro-Peruvians, not much is known about the relative influence of discrimination and social origins on Afro-Peruvians’ access to higher education. Using data from the 2014 Specialized Study of Afro-Peruvian Population and logistic regression, the authors examine the influence of skin color and […]
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Chapter in BookEducational Assessment in Latin America
Classroom composition and its association with students’ achievement and socioemotional characteristics in Peru
2018 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon, Alejandra Miranda
This collection presents educational assessment research from Latin America, adding to a relatively small but growing body of research considering educational assessment and evaluation issues in this large region. The predominance of Chile reflects its early highly centralized education system, and the fact that it adopted national testing before other Latin American countries. It was […]
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Las expectativas educativas de los estudiantes de secundaria de regiones amazónicas: un análisis de los factores asociados desde el enfoque de eficacia escolar
2017 Juan Leon, Claudia Sugimaru
Este estudio explora las expectativas durante la adolescencia, etapa fundamental del desarrollo en la cual se deciden las metas personales y aspiraciones que orientarán el tránsito hacia la adultez. Específicamente, se describen las expectativas educativas u ocupacionales de los estudiantes de quinto de secundaria en las regiones de Amazonas, Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martín […]
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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
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JournalHigher Education
What to do next: an exploratory study of the post-secondary decisions of American students
2013 Juan Leon, Kristen Lee
Research on college choices is the new tool used by Higher Educational Institutions to help them identify the influences and factors affecting potential student populations. To measure the growing rate of working students in higher education, we propose to examine the
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JournalJournal of Biosocial Science
Understanding the association between maternal education and use of health services in Ghana: exploring the role of health knowledge
2012 Juan Leon
This paper examines the role of health knowledge in the association between mothers' education and use of maternal and child health services in Ghana.
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JournalPopulation and Development Review
The Education Effect on Population Health: A Reassessment
2011 Juan Leon, David Baker, John Collins,
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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
