Lorena Levano

Lorena Levano
  • Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences
  • University of Pennsylvania

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Introduction
Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. Policymaker and researcher specialized in policy design, information management, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) with quantitative and qualitative methods. Specialist in violence against children with a focus on school violence, sexual harassment, and polivictimization with experience in the public sector. Affiliated researcher of the University of Pennsylvania Social Norms Group (Penn SoNG) and the Public Policy Research Group of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Teaching experience at the School of Political Science of the National University of San Marcos and the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
Current institution
University of Pennsylvania
Additional affiliations
February 2020 - September 2020
World Bank
Position
  • Consultant
September 2019 - February 2020
Ministry of Education of Peru
Position
  • Consultant
Description
  • • Multi-sectoral coordinator for school coexistence and violence with emphasis on actions to reduce GBV. • Methodological proposal for the creation of a multi-sectoral commission for school coexistence and school violence.
June 2019 - present
University of Pennsylvania
Position
  • Researcher
Description
  • Research, consulting and training services to organizations that aim to positively impact human behavior.
Education
January 2018 - August 2019
University of Pennsylvania
Field of study
  • Behavioral and Decision Sciences
March 2008 - July 2013
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Field of study
  • Political Science

Publications

Publications (21)
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The internet is increasingly used as the primary channel of communication especially among young people. The use of this global network can be positive but also contains unusual risks and new forms of violence like online grooming, the process in which an adult develops a relationship with a minor in order to reach a sexually abusive situation thro...
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Sexual harassment, defined as making an unwelcome behavior of a sexual nature, is highly prevalent all over the world. In this study, sexual harassment in high schools is studied as this is one of the places where it has the highest prevalence and a time in life where an intervention can have the highest impact. Even though there are studies about...
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The information and communication technologies (ICTs) open new ways of social interaction that affect all stages of life transversally, including children and adolescents (UNICEF, 2017). Even though ICTs have various positive effects on this population, there is currently a growing interest in understanding the possible negative consequences derive...
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Basado en una investigación anterior que se centra en el estudio del acoso sexual en una escuela secundaria de Estados Unidos (Levano ,2019), este estudio propone intervenciones adaptables a las especificidades sociales y culturales de dicha escuela. Empleando herramientas de las ciencias del comportamiento, se proponen intervenciones para la preve...
Book
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A pesar del tiempo transcurrido desde que se pro-clamara la Independencia y se fundara la República, las elecciones han estado plagadas de vicios y exclusiones, y han originado interrupciones constitucionales; en una palabra, las elecciones no han cumplido enteramente con su cometido.En este sentido, Elecciones presidenciales en el Perú,1931-2016 e...
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La transparencia y el acceso a la información constituye una de las demandas más generalizadas de la sociedad civil en relación con la calidad de la democracia y, a juzgar por la aparente preocupación de nuestros principales actores políticos, resulta ser una coincidencia como pocas otras, logrando consenso incluso entre representantes de tiendas p...
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El presente estado de la cuestión de la descentralización en el Perú surge frente a la carencia de un esfuerzo por agrupar los conceptos e investigaciones de distintas perspectivas de análisis que se han hecho en torno al proceso vivido en América Latina y con un énfasis principal en su desarrollo en el Perú. A partir de la constitución de 1979, di...
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La violencia es un problema que caracteriza la vida de muchos menores en el Perú. Datos oficiales revelan que 7 de cada 10 niños, niñas y adolescentes ha sufrido de algún tipo de violencia. La investigación analiza dos tipos de violencia: física y psicológica en dos de los principales ámbitos de socialización de los menores: la escuela y el hogar....
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Es difícil conocer la dimensión de la violencia en las escuelas peruanas pues no se tiene una medida única sino múltiples cifras por cada tipo de agresión o estudios profundos pero con muestreos carentes de representatividad a nivel nacional. Esta investigación busca resolver este vacío métrico con un índice que resume las distintas agresiones pond...
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El nuestro es un Parlamento que ha sufrido los vaivenes y vicisitudes de la historia política del país. El péndulo que nos ha llevado entre gobiernos democráticos y autoritarios no ha sido ni corto ni ha dejado de marcar su huella en los anales políticos del país. Pese a ello, es fundamental conocer esta faceta de la historia electoral del Perú, pu...
Technical Report
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Violence against children must be stopped globally and the first step to achieve this is by understanding how and when it happens. This is the eighth edition of the International Child Helpline (ICH) Violence Against Children report, based on more than 730,000 VAC-related emergency calls responded by child helplines worldwide in 2014. Of these, 514...
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Sexual harassment, defined as making an unwelcome behavior of a sexual nature, is highly prevalent all over the world. In this study sexual harassment in high schools is studied as this is one of the places where it has the highest prevalence and a time in life where an intervention can have the highest impact. Even though there are studies about s...
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Esta investigación explora —dentro del análisis de comportamiento electoral— dos aspectos de la opinión pública: la aprobación del desempeño público de los políticos en el período no electoral y la intención de voto durante los meses previos a las elecciones. A partir de datos recogidos por el IOP-PUCP en encuestas de opinión nacional urbana, se an...

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