Aunque históricamente el Perú no ha contado con un programa de crédito de largo plazo para estudios superiores, la creación del Programa Beca 18 y del Programa Nacional de Becas y Crédito Educativo abren hoy la posibilidad de implementar un sistema crediticio que facilite el acceso a la...

En la última década, el acceso a la educación superior en el Perú se ha incrementado sustancialmente. Por otro lado, la proporción de niños y adolescentes con conocimientos adecuados para su grado reflejados en pruebas de aprendizaje sigue siendo escasa y ha avanzado muy poco. ¿Qué ha...

"Si relacionamos el logaritmo del ingreso laboral con los años de educación a través de una especificación “minceriana” tradicional obtenemos que, en el Perú, el rendimiento de un año adicional de educación sería del orden del 10%. En la primera parte de este estudio, sin embargo,...

Few adolescents in the developing world receive sufficient guidance to make crucial life decisions during the transition from secondary to postsecondary education and into the labor market. Consequently, a significant number of graduates regret the decisions they make. The excessive rigidity of...

In 2000, Thomas, Wang, and Fan published a paper calling for the application of the Gini coefficient to educational attainment. The idea was to treat educational attainment as a wealth stock, and to calculate Gini coefficients for, say, years of attainment, as a way to see trends within...

This study describes the design and the ex-ante evaluation of an Intercultural Bilingual Education1 Program in the Amazon Region in Peru. The target beneficiaries are the non-Spanish-speaking children from three Amazon ethnic communities: the Awarunas, Ashaninkas and Shipibos-Conibos. They are a...

In 2000, Thomas, Wang, and Fan published a paper calling for the application of the Gini coefficient to educational attainment. The idea was to treat educational attainment as a wealth stock, and to calculate Gini coefficients for, say, years of attainment, as a way to see trends within...

In 2000, Thomas, Wang, and Fan published a paper calling for the application of the Gini coefficient to educational attainment. The idea was to treat educational attainment as a wealth stock, and to calculate Gini coefficients for, say, years of attainment, as a way to see trends within...

"This paper analyzes the relative importance of short term financial constraints vis a vis skills and other background factors affecting schooling decisions when explaining access to higher education in Peru. We focus on college access disparities between rich and poor households. We use a novel...

"En esta investigación analizamos las diferencias étnicas y de sexo en el progreso educativo en el Perú, en los últimos 50 años. Usamos un pool de datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Hogares del 2004-2009 e identificamos cuatro etnias: blanca/mestiza, amazónica, quechua/aymara, y...