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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Does Visual Acuity Have an Effect on Children’s Educational Achievement?
2017 Santiago Cueto, Javier Escobal, Juan Leon, Mary Penny
Inequity is an important issue for many international initiatives, including the current Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One aspect of inequity that has received little attention is the impact of disability on education. This working paper explores whether mild or moderate levels of visual impairment are associated with educational performance for 7 and 8-year-old children in […]
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JournalJournal of Population Research
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
Early in the 30-year HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, epidemiological studies identified formal education attainment as a risk factor: educated Sub-Saharan Africans had a higher risk of contracting HIV/AIDS than their less educated peers. Later demographic research reported that by the mid-1990s the education effect had reversed, and education began to function as a social […]
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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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Equating test scores for receptive vocabulary across rounds and cohorts in Ethiopia, India & Vietnam
2017 Juan Leon, Abhijeet Singh
In longitudinal studies such as Young Lives, getting comparable measures of children´s cognitive abilities over time is essential for identifying individual, household, and school-level factors that affect children´s development. Few longitudinal studies that follow birth/age cohorts include comparable cognitive measures across waves, and those studies that are available are mainly from developed countries. Young Lives […]
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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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JournalPsychological Science
Explaining the Education Effect on Health: A Field-Study from Ghana
2010 Juan Leon, David Baker, John Collins
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JournalJournal of Research on Mathematics Education
One Hundred Years of American Primary School Mathematics: A Content Analysis and Cognitive Assessment of Textbooks from 1900 to 2000
2010 David Baker, John Collins, Juan Leon
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JournalRevista Electrónica Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación
Oportunidades de Aprendizaje y Rendimiento Escolar en Matemática y Lenguaje: Resumen de Tres Estudios en Perú
2008 Cecilia Ramírez, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Santiago Cueto
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JournalEducational Studies in Mathematics
Opportunities to learn and achievement in mathematics in a sample of sixth grade students in Lima, Peru
2006 Santiago Cueto, Cecilia Ramírez, Juan Leon
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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
