Publications of Minería, escasez hídrica y la ausencia de una planificación colaborativa
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Minería, escasez hídrica y la ausencia de una planificación colaborativa
Water scarcity and inequitable access to water in cities close to large mining projects is, nowadays, an urgent issue that leads to recurring conflicts in the Andean region. Based on the comparison between two case studies in the Andes —one in Peru and the other in Argentina—, this article shows how current mining policy reproduces […]
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Docentes de escuelas primarias en zonas rurales del Perú y uso de las tecnologías de la información
El presente documento tiene como objetivo caracterizar a las y los docentes de escuelas públicas primarias en zonas rurales, evaluar su acceso a las tecnologías de la información, y comentar cómo perciben el uso de estas tecnologías en educación. Para ello, recurre a la Encuesta Nacional a Docentes (ENDO) del 2018.
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Caracterización de las escuelas primarias multigrado castellanohablantes en zonas rurales del Perú
El presente documento tiene como objetivo describir a las escuelas públicas primarias multigrado castellanohablantes en zonas rurales del país. Se comentarán aspectos tales como las características del local, el personal docente, las y los estudiantes y la composición de las aulas, sobre la base de los censos educativos de 2018 y 2019.
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Aportes para el Diálogo y la Acción – Editorial
El proyecto CREER lanza la serie “Aportes para el Diálogo y la Acción” con esta editorial como preámbulo, la serie estará compuesta por breves artículos que buscan aportar al diálogo y a la reflexión sobre temas relevantes para la educación rural, así como apoyar la toma de decisiones, brindando recomendaciones de política. Estos artículos incluyen […]
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Impact of Juntos Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Nutritional and Cognitive Outcomes in Peru: Comparison Between Younger and Older Initial Exposure
Researchers evaluate whether the Juntos conditional cash transfer program in Peru has a larger effect on children who benefited initially from the program during the first 4 years of life compared with those children who benefited initially between ages 5 and 8. The former group was exposed during early-life sensitive periods, received the program for […]
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Challenges in using RCTs for evaluation of large-scale public programs with complex designs: Lessons from Peru
The use of randomized control trials (RCTs) to evaluate public policies and interventions in developing countries faces several challenges. These include limited budgets to finance sample designs and sample sizes required to evaluate multifaceted interventions, potential small-sample bias arising from such limited samples, and difficulties in random assignment when participants self-exclude from parts of the […]
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(Un)Conditional Love in the Time of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Effect of the Peruvian JUNTOS Program on Spousal Abuse
Cash Transfer programs often target women as the recipient of the money. Unintentionally, this flow of unearned income may reduce spousal abuse. Researchers investigate this possibility by assessing the Peruvian JUNTOS program. They exploit the staggered timing in the rollout of the program across municipalities along with its eligibility rule for determining participation to perform a difference-in-differences […]
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Radio and video as a means for financial education in rural households in Peru
This chapter analyzes the impact of a financial literacy training of a Peruvian microfinance institution, which is delivered by credit officers in monthly sessions with the support of video and radio materials.
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Breaking the Silence. Why do Young Women in Peru Marry or Cohabit at a Young Age, and What are the Consequences?
On the basis of qualitative data, the chapter shows how different factors lead young women to start cohabitation or marriage before adulthood. Through the experiences of three women who began cohabitation before the age of 18 in Peru, the authors show what life is like for them, the inequities in the power relations they face […]
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Equating Cognitive Scores across Rounds and Cohorts for Young Lives in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
For longitudinal studies such as Young Lives, getting comparable measures of children ́s cognitive abilities over time is essential for identifying individual, family, school or contextual variables that affect children ́s development. Few longitudinal studies that follow birth/age cohorts have comparable cognitive measures over time; of those that are available, most are from developed countries […]
