Publications of Education and learning
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Revisión del gasto público regional en educación básica. Hacia una más eficiente asignación de recursos para la mejora del desempeño educativo
In nominal terms, in 2021 annual public spending per student in Regular Basic Education was 6.4 times that observed in 2000 and 3.6 times in real terms. These fiscal efforts for investment in human capital still show low figures compared to those of OECD countries and even of peer economies in the region, such as […]
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Las habilidades cognitivas medidas durante la adolescencia predicen los resultados educativos: Evidencia de Etiopia y Perú
Utilizando datos de Niños del Milenio (NdM), se investiga la asociación entre las habilidades cognitivas medidas a los 12 años y los resultados educativos medidos a los 15 y 20 años. Los y las jóvenes con mayores puntajes en memoria de largo plazo y memoria de trabajo mostraron mejores resultados en las pruebas de vocabulario, […]
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‘Marketization’ of higher education in Peru: Who attends private institutions and what are the perceived advantages (disadvantages)?
Debate continues on the effects of the global proliferation of private higher-educational institutions, especially for-profit institutions. The authors examine two related questions for Peru using mixed methods: Who attends private institutions and what are their perceived advantages/disadvantages? Longitudinal quantitative data suggest higher-educational segmentation starting early in life, whereby young people from wealthier households attended private […]
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El impacto de JUNTOS en las habilidades cognitivas fundamentales: ¿Importa la edad de incorporación del niño o niña al programa?
Using longitudinal data from Young Lives (NdM for its acronym in Spanish) sibling pairs, we explore the importance of the age of initial exposure to the JUNTOS programme on the development of a set of key cognitive skills. Younger siblings who benefit from JUNTOS from an early age achieve significant improvements in inhibitory control skills – […]
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Reforming education in the context of weak states: the political economy of education reforms in Peru 1995-2020
In this paper, we explore the political economy of education reforms in Peru through an analysis of the recent history of education policies in the country. Starting in 1995, arguably the inception point for quality-oriented reforms, we follow policy developments in three selected areas – curriculum, teachers and assessment – up to 2020, the year […]
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Teacher evaluation in Peru: prospects and challenges
Since 2000, with the recognition that teaching in Peru—which was greatly devalued at the time—needed to be professionalized, teacher evaluation policies have been initiated within a broader context of concern for teacher development. However, it was not until the implementation of the Ley de Reforma Magisterial (LRM, Teacher Reform Law) of 2012 that teacher evaluation […]
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School environments and obesity: A systematic review of interventions and policies among school-age students in Latin America and the Caribbean
The rapid rise in obesity rates among school children in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) could have a direct impact on the region’s physical and mental health, disability, and mortality. This review presents the available interventions likely to reduce, mitigate and/or prevent obesity among school children in LAC by modifying the food and built […]
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The impact of the JUNTOS conditional cash transfer programme on foundational cognitive skills: does age of enrollment matter?
This paper studies the relationship between the age of enrolment in Peru’s conditional cash transfer programme, JUNTOS, and the foundational cognitive skills of a sample of children aged between 5 and 12 years old. Using a difference-in-differences approach and exploiting within- household variation, the authors show that younger siblings in recipient households display significantly higher […]
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Late-childhood foundational cognitive skills predict educational outcomes through adolescence and into young adulthood: Evidence from Ethiopia and Peru
The authors estimate the associations between a set of foundational cognitive skills (inhibitory control, working memory, long-term memory, and implicit learning) measured at age 12 and educational outcomes measured at ages 15 and 19-20 in Ethiopia and Peru (the Young Lives study). The estimates adjust for a rich set of lagged controls and include measurements […]
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The relationship between maternal sensitivity and play during early childhood with the development of cognitive skills and socio-emotional competencies: longitudinal evidence from Peru
Maternal sensitivity and opportunities for play and exploration are key elements of early childhood development. There is limited evidence of its association with skills development during late childhood and adolescence in developing countries. This study uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives study, which has tracked the livelihoods of approximately 2000 Peruvian children since 2002. […]
