Publications of Reshaping the gender gap in child time use: unintended effects of a program expanding economic opportunities in the Peruvian Andes
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Reshaping the gender gap in child time use: unintended effects of a program expanding economic opportunities in the Peruvian Andes
In the last decades, a variety of public policies and programs across the developing world have helped narrow the historical gender gap in access to education and employment. Yet, the gender gap in higher education, labor income and power relations within families -and the rural society in general- is still substantial in most developing countries. […]
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Educating on a budget: the subsistence model of low-fee private schooling in Peru
Over the last decades, Peru has experienced an extraordinary rise of low-fee private schools (LFPSs). While global debates on the quality of this modality of schooling have been gaining currency, research on the organizational practices of LFPSs remains comparatively underdeveloped. This paper aims at identifying and describing the managerial, business and organizational practices exhibited by […]
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Does certification improve hired labour conditions and wageworker conditions at banana plantations?
Certification of banana plantations is widely used as a device for protecting and improving socio-economic conditions of wageworkers, including their incomes, working conditions and—increasingly—voice [related to labour relations and workplace representation]. However, to date, evidence about the effectiveness of certification in these domains is scarce. Researchers collected detailed field data on (1) economic benefits for […]
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Criminal Legalities in the Global South. Cultural Dynamics, Political Tensions, and Institutional Practices
In Peru, corruption is widespread. Under the intention of addressing the problem of corruption, the justice system reacted by creating a specialized sub judicial system, which accompanied the introduction of a new Criminal Procedure Code that allowed less bureaucratic oral criminal proceedings. While these changes promised justice and efficiency, in this chapter it is argued […]
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History matters, but differently: Persisting and perpetuating effects on the likelihood of intimate partner violence
Ecological models of violence center on systems (micro, meso, and macro) surrounding personal history of violence, but few studies properly assess the effects of personal history on the likelihood of victimization. Using the Peruvian Demographic and Health Survey (N=74,204), the authors examine the effect personal history of violence has on the likelihood of recent intimate […]
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Encouraging use of prenatal care through conditional cash transfers: evidence from JUNTOS in Peru
Researchers use a difference‐in‐differences strategy to estimate the effects of JUNTOS, a conditional cash transfer program targeted to poor rural households in Peru, on use of prenatal care. Using data from the Peruvian Demographic and Health Surveys over the period 2000–2011, they find that JUNTOS increased prenatal care utilization among program‐eligible women. Even more, they […]
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Venciendo la adversidad: trayectorias educativas de los estudiantes pobres en zonas rurales del Perú
The study on which this policy brief is based analyzes which factors are associated with the fact that girls and boys born in contexts of relative poverty in rural areas not only remain in school, but also register high educational performance in tests of mathematical and verbal knowledge at 15 years of age. For this, […]
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El desgobierno del mercado educativo y la intensificación de la segregación escolar socioeconómica en el Perú
Perú is the country in Latin America with the biggest gap in the educational achievements of students from rich and poor families. At the same time it is a radical example of the global trend towards the development of educational markets. On the sidelines of the liberalization of private educational investment, the free choice of schools has […]
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Venciendo la adversidad: trayectorias educativas de estudiantes pobres en zonas rurales del Perú
The Peruvian education system is characterized by high levels of access, low levels of learning and high inequality. There are several reasons why some students access a high level of education and learning, while others do not. In general, it can be affirmed that there is a connection between socioeconomic characteristics and student performance, and […]
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El conocimiento del contenido por parte de los docentes y su relación con el rendimiento de los estudiantes de sexto de primaria: una mirada a las tres regiones naturales del Perú
Literature has shown the importance of both the figure of the teacher and the variables associated with the educational context, since they directly affect learning and can be influenced by short-term policies. This study determines the knowledge of the content —level of knowledge regarding the disciplinary area taught— of the teachers of Mathematics of the […]
