Journal
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Early sexual initiation among adolescents in Peru: A longitudinal analysis among 15-year-olds
The percentage of Latin American teenage women, including Peruvian, reporting having had sex is increasing. There are few studies in Latin America aimed at identifying the predictors of this behavior. This study uses a unique longitudinal dataset from Peru to explore which individual, family and community variables, and changes of these over time, predict sexual […]
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Behaviors, Strategies and Achievement in Reading Comprehension in PISA: Analysis for Peru
Learning to read is internationally considered a central goal of schooling. In this analysis we used data from PISA on reading comprehension for Peru, with the aim of determining if the socioeconomic characteristics of students are associated with their performance, behaviors and educational strategies, as well as with their school environment. Regarding educational resources for […]
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La perspectiva económica de la regulación laboral y la legislación laboral peruana
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La privatización por defecto y el surgimiento de las escuelas privadas de bajo costo en el Perú. ¿Cuáles son sus consecuencias?
Since the 1990s, when for-profit investment in education was liberalized, Perú has seen a constant growth in the supply and demand of private education services. This tendency has deepened in the last decade in a context of economic growth that has allowed many families to migrate to the private sector. The growth of the private […]
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Measuring the relative pay of school teachers in Latin America 1997–2007
How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences evolved in recent years? Is teachers’ underpayment more pronounced in certain segments of the labor markets? This paper documents answers for those questions using data for thirteen Latin-American countries circa 1997 and circa 2007. After controlling […]
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Classroom composition and its association with students’ achievement and socioemotional characteristics in Peru
School composition is a topic that has gained increasing attention from researchers over the past few years, as it has been found that the socio-economic characteristics of students are associated with their achievement. However, most research has been cross-sectional and carried out in industrialised countries. In the study, the authors use parental education as a […]
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Does pre-school improve cognitive abilities among children with early-life stunting? A longitudinal study for Peru
Several studies in developing countries have found that children who experience growth faltering in the first years of life show lower cognitive abilities than their peers. In this study, we use the Young Lives longitudinal dataset in Peru to analyze if attending pre-school affects cognitive abilities at age five years, and if there is an […]
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Does pre-school improve cognitive abilities among children with early-life stunting?: a longitudinal study for Peru
Several studies in developing countries have found that children who experience growth faltering in the first years of life show lower cognitive abilities than their peers. In this study, we use the Young Lives longitudinal dataset in Peru to analyze if attending pre-school affects cognitive abilities at age five years, and if there is an […]
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El éxito educativo de la región Moquegua, un análisis de la gestión pedagógica e institucional en tres niveles: regional, local y de institución educativo
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Impactos del programa Juntos en las decisiones productivas de los hogares rurales del Perú
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