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Item type:Item, Access status: Open Access , The effects of social pensions on monetary and time transfers among the poor(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de Economía, 2026-02) Olivera, Javier; Iparraguirre, YadiraahWe study the effects of Peru’s social pension program, Pension 65, on family transfers of money and time. The program provides pensions to individuals aged 65 and over who are officially classified as extremely poor and who do not receive other pensions. We use survey data matched to the program’s administrative registers and exploit the discontinuity around the welfare index that determines eligibility to estimate the intention-to-treat effects of the program on family transfers. We find that Pension 65 reduces monetary family transfers by 70% (the effect is 97% for men). There is a substantial increase in childcare hours among men, from 1 to 7 hours per week. This result is consistent with an increase in the number of young children in the household and with a reduction in time spent on leisure activities among men.Item type:Item, Access status: Metadata only , Hecho a mano(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2025-12-12) Gómez, AshlyHandmade is a series of paintings that reinterpret the back page of the Trome newspaper —primarily the “Las Malcriadas” section— transforming it into a personal and popular diary. This gesture stems from an intimate need: to narrate from the everyday, from the tension between what we feel and what we are not always able to process. It is a confrontational and political proposition that presents the intimate as a terrain in opposition to the structural.I do not seek to represent a homogeneous “conera identity,” but rather to articulate a situated perspective marked by the experience of inhabiting the urban margins of Lima. In a context where material priorities determine the rhythm of life, the emotional is often displaced. However, this affective dimension endures in covert ways: through consumption or certain cultural practices that function symbolically as escape valves or resistance.This series shifts the morbid fascination of the pornographic toward the passionate: the current context of violence, everyday fear, aspirations, broken relationships, family, and friends. What is presented in this essay are not bodies for visual desire, but ruminating thoughts and fictions interrupted by reality.Item type:Item, Access status: Metadata only , Aplicación del color psicológico para el mejoramiento comunitario de espacios públicos. Parque Pukllary Llajta (Comas)(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2025-12-19) Aliaga Saenz, AlessiaSince ancient times, color has been an evocative medium capable of generating instant and profound reactions in those who inhabit or perceive a space. These emotional and symbolic meanings make color a powerful tool for the perceptual revitalization of public space within a given cultural context. The study of this relationship is usually approached from physical, physiological, or psychological perspectives. Moreover, in the fields of architecture and urban planning, it involves perspectives derived from semiotics and sociology, which highlight its social dimension. However, in the design process, color is often considered an added detail, when its integration should begin from the conceptual phase. In part, this is because the literature analyzing the psychology of color does not specifically address its relationship with perception in public spaces, but rather explains the concepts as independent elements. This manuscript begins with the premise of establishing a methodology to determine criteria for the appropriate application of color when it is used for its connotative and symbolic values, with the aim of enriching the livability of a public space through its effects on visual comfort. The research is based on an analysis that combines theoretical findings with interviews with residents of a specific case study. In this way, the importance of a theoretical and practical understanding of the psychological effects of color is illustrated as a strategy for enhancing the community experience in public spaces.Item type:Item, Access status: Metadata only , ¿De dónde provienen los dibujos? Nuestros primeros rastros gráficos en la infancia y la re-vuelta del yo historiador(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2025-12-19) Prieto Coz, FernandoThis essay explores the graphic and psychological development of a child through drawing, in a process shared with his father over five years. Drawing on everyday practice, the author intertwines his experience as a father, artist, and candidate for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, linking the emergence of children’s graphic marks with Piera Aulagnier’s concept of the Historian Ego and Julia Kristeva’s concept of Re-volt. The author reflects on the relationship between the dimensions of psychic representation, graphic marks, and subjectivity, showing how graphic representation can become an intermediary space between the inner world and shared reality, fostering psychic structuring. Similarly, graphic representation in childhood can function as a series of supports upon which subjectivity can rely in its work of generating its own history, in the task of constructing an Ego. Thus, the text attempts to be both an intimate testimony and a theoretical essay on the transmission of identifications between generations through stories, visual practices and shared emotions, accounting for artistic practice as an activity that generates new meanings, intersubjective encounters, processes of construction and psychic transformation.Item type:Item, Access status: Metadata only , Lima Andina: Una herramienta digital para la historia de la migración interna en Perú(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2026-02-13) Durston, AlanThis note presents a digital platform containing more than six thousand notices published by internal migrant associations in the newspaper El Comercio between 1906 and 1933, allowing for a systematic study of the presence and dynamics of these associations in Lima in the early twentieth century. Based on a database that records 488 organizations and their notices, the platform offers search and visualization tools useful for exploring patterns of migration, sociability, and political participation. The note describes the methodological decisions and collaborative process behind the project, highlighting both the challenges of digital work and its potential for future historicalresearch.
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