Oswaldo Molina highlights Alan Sanchez and Marta Favara findings on the impact of JEC on teenage pregnancy
An op-ed by Oswaldo Molina, director of the Master in Economics at the Universidad del Pacífico, in El Comercio, highlights the findings of Alan Sanchez, Senior Researcher at GRADE and Young Lives Peru, and Marta Favara, Researcher at the University of Oxford, on the impact of the Peruvian extended school-day reform (Jornada Escolar Completa, JEC) on several risk and protective factors predicting teenage pregnancy.
Molina highlights two limitations that affect the group most exposed to teenage pregnancy: poor school performance and lack of educational aspirations, which can be alleviated with the introduction of the JEC. Thus, the study shows that this “has contributed significantly to the improvement of grades in mathematics and reading comprehension, as well as in the percentage of students who point out that they aspire to go to university.”
