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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Higher Education
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1386317

Education and its effect on monetary poverty of households in Peru

Provisionally accepted
Julio Cesar Quispe Mamani Julio Cesar Quispe Mamani *Rolando Cáceres Quenta Rolando Cáceres Quenta Marcial Guevara Mamani Marcial Guevara Mamani
  • Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Puno, Peru

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    The objective of this research was to determine the effect of education on poverty in Peruvian households, in the period 2022, for which the quantitative approach was considered, of a non-experimental research type, with a descriptive-correlational design, considering the information collected in the National Household Survey (ENAHO); The Logit-Binomial logistic regression model was used to measure the effect of the variables expenditure on education, monthly economic income, years of schooling, mother tongue of the head of household, age of the head of household, marital status of the head of household, gender of the head of household and area of residence, on the probability of being poor, according to the poverty line established by the INEI. According to the results obtained, expenditure on education, monthly economic income, years of schooling and area of residence explain the probability of being poor in a negative way; while the mother tongue of the head of household, the age of the head of household, the marital status of the head of household and the gender of the head of household explain the probability of being poor in a positive way. Therefore, it was determined that there is a significant effect of education on whether households in Peru are considered poor or not.

    Keywords: Education, Poverty, education level, Head of household, Economic income

    Received: 15 Feb 2024; Accepted: 30 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Quispe Mamani, Cáceres Quenta and Guevara Mamani. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Julio Cesar Quispe Mamani, Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Puno, Peru

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