Jose Torres
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jose Torres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jose |
| FAMILY NAME | Torres |
| SIGNATURE | TORRES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sucre |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9474-1288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Educational Infrastructure Efficiency in China: A Dual-Method Provincial Analysis With Cross-National Benchmarking, 2020–2025
This study evaluates the efficiency of educational infrastructure investment in China and Colombia between 2020 and 2025. The research aims to measure technical efficiency, identify institutional and contextual determinants, and assess whether infrastructure investment causally improves educational outcomes. Using a dual-method approach—Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis—combined with panel Granger causality tests, the stu…
MarketSim’s impact on data-driven decision-making: A cross-cultural study of business education in Latin American universities
This study evaluated the effectiveness of MarketSim, an online business simulator, in developing data-driven decision-making skills among undergraduate business students across three Latin American universities. The research followed 215 students from Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador over two academic years, implementing a mixed-methods approach with experimental and control groups. Statistical analyses included McDonald’s Omega coefficients for …
AI-Supported Academic Systems and Dropout Reduction in Latin American Public Universities Between 2019 and 2024
Institutional Quality as a Moderator of Education Investment Effectiveness in Latin American Democracies
This study tested whether institutional quality moderated the relationship between public education investment and educational outcomes in five Latin American democracies from 2013 to 2022. Using panel data analysis with interaction modeling, the investigation found that countries with stronger governance structures achieved substantially greater returns on education spending, with high‐quality institutions producing nearly three times the educat…
Rhythmic Training as Applied Social Intervention in Low-Income Preschool Settings
This study examines a culturally grounded rhythmic intervention as an applied social science strategy to strengthen sustained attention in preschool children from low-income communities in Barranquilla, Colombia. Guided by neural entrainment theory and principles of scholar activism, a 10-week percussion program using Caribbean instruments was implemented in partnership with a public preschool serving marginalized families. A quasi-experimental d…
Assessing Democratic Resilience in Latin America's AI Era: A Diagnostic Framework for Electoral Integrity Preparedness
This study develops the first systematic diagnostic framework for assessing electoral integrity resilience against AI-enabled manipulation in Latin America. Drawing on institutional theory and comparative democratisation literature, the analysis examines six countries to assess how institutional capacity and AI regulatory preparedness shape electoral integrity maintenance. Using data from the Electoral Integrity Project, Freedom House, V-Dem, and…
Origin-Country Credential Recognition Policies and Employment Outcomes: A Comparative Study of Migrants in the Colombian Caribbean
This study examined educational credential recognition effects on labor market outcomes for migrants in Colombia’s Caribbean region. Analyzing data from 782 migrants across three cities using multinomial regression, Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, and spatial econometrics, findings showed credential recognition increased formal employment probability by 28.4 percentage points while decreasing informal employment by 31.9 percentage points. Women fac…
National and International Mass Shootings: Examining How Social Media Impacts College Students’ Perceptions
Digital tourism platforms and employment precarization in Colombian Caribbean Cities
This study investigates how the expansion of digital accommodation platforms affects labour formalisation in Cartagena, Santa Marta, and San Andrés between 2019 and 2024. Using nationally representative microdata and a difference-in-differences approach, the analysis identifies consistent declines in social security affiliation in high-platform-density areas. Mediation models indicate indirect effects through transitions to informal employment, w…
Differential Effects of Skilled and Unskilled Migration on Formal Sector Wage Structures in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan During Economic Transition
This study examined how skilled and unskilled migration differentially affected formal sector wage structures in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2024. Using difference-in-differences analysis with instrumental variables on region-sector-quarter panel data, the research found skilled migration generated wage premiums 2.2 times larger than unskilled migration effects. Instrumental variable estimates revealed skilled migration increased wages…
Civilizing Space or Criminalizing Place: Using Routine Activities Theory to Better Understand How Legal Hybridity Spatially Regulates “Deviant Populations
Predicting law enforcement confidence in going ‘hands-on’: The impact of martial arts training, use-of-force self-efficacy, motivation, and apprehensiveness
In law enforcement, there are situations allowing officers to gain control of suspects by going ‘hands-on,’ or physically placing someone in custody beyond simple handcuffing. While much empirical attention is placed on more lethal use-of-force (UOF) measures, little is known about going hands-on. This is concerning considering when force is used, it is almost always with the use of hands, fist or feet only. The purpose of this pilot study is to …
Under-policing and apprehensiveness toward stopping minorities across white and nonwhite officers post-Ferguson
This pilot study examines police patrol activity, specifically engagement in under-policing, and investigatory-apprehensiveness toward minorities across White and nonwhite patrol officers in the context of policing post-Ferguson. Using a sample of unranked, patrol-duty officers in the United States (n = 887) from an online survey a series of multivariate binary logistic models suggest that although departmental and officer level variables can pre…
Banishment: A Test of Specific Deterrence in Public Housing
Research Summary We test the degree to which a public housing banishment policy specifically deters overall drug and violent offenses in public housing using a stratified sample of 345 individuals, banned between 2004 and 2012, in one public housing authority (PHA). We find that individual offending (trespass, drug, violent, gun, and property offenses) in public housing increases after being banned. Increases in trespass offenses, specifically fo…
Addressing the Race Gap in Incarceration Rates: An Agent Based Model
Using an agent-based model of incarceration, the authors conduct a series of simulation experiments testing the efficacy of policy interventions designed to address racial disparities in incarceration rates. The first experiment eliminates race-based sentencing disparities, and additional experiments eliminate race-based sentencing disparities and disrupt the clustering of incarcerated individuals in their social networks. Findings suggest that e…
Violencia laboral externa tipo amenaza contra médicos en servicios hospitalarios de Lima Metropolitana, Perú 2014
In the hospitals studied, a large number of doctors have been victims of EWV. Working in public services increases the possibility of violence. Implementation of support, identification, and primary prevention strategies in hospitals is recommended
Banishment in Public Housing: Testing an Evolution of Broken Windows
Banishment policies grant police the authority to formally ban individuals from entering public housing and arrest them for trespassing if they violate the ban. Despite its widespread use and the social consequences resulting from it, an empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of banishment has not been performed. Understanding banishment enforcement is an evolution of broken windows policing, this study explores how effective bans are at reduc…
Waist Circumferences of Chilean Students: Comparison of the CDC-2012 Standard and Proposed Percentile Curves
The measurement of waist circumference (WC) is considered to be an important means to control overweight and obesity in children and adolescents. The objectives of the study were to (a) compare the WC measurements of Chilean students with the international CDC-2012 standard and other international standards, and (b) propose a specific measurement value for the WC of Chilean students based on age and sex. A total of 3892 students (6 to 18 years ol…
Race/Ethnicity and Stop‐and‐Frisk: Past, Present, Future
Scholarly debates surrounding stop‐and‐frisk typically assess the effectiveness and lawfulness of stop‐and‐frisk. Notwithstanding these efforts, recent reviews have excluded some recent research that addresses its impact on racial and ethnic immigrants. Understanding how the practice of stop‐and‐frisk affects racial and ethnic immigrants is worth including in reviews of these policies, considering the recent growth of research involving crime and…
Predicting perceived police effectiveness in public housing: Police contact, police trust, and police responsiveness
Public housing authorities have implemented banishment policies giving police the authority to ban non-residents from public housing and arrest them for trespassing upon violating the ban. Scholars argue that banishment expands police powers because authorities need little reason to ban non-residents, are beyond judicial review, and can lead to racially disparate enforcement. However, it is unclear whether community policing may be able to mediat…
Use of vitamin D supplements during infancy in an international feeding trial
Objective To examine the use of vitamin D supplements during infancy among the participants in an international infant feeding trial. Design Longitudinal study. Setting Information about vitamin D supplementation was collected through a validated FFQ at the age of 2 weeks and monthly between the ages of 1 month and 6 months. Subjects Infants ( n 2159) with a biological family member affected by type 1 diabetes and with increased human leucocyte a…
Teiresias, the Theban Seer
Δευς in Cornutus
Cocaine, kicks, and strain: Patterns of substance use in Milwaukee gangs
This study describes the patterns of substance use by male and female gang members in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from their teenage years in the 1980s into adulthood. Milwaukee gangs started out as one form of neighborhood-based drug-using peer group. There was much variation in drug use, and family variables explained little of the variation. Male gang members raised in families with a history of gang involvement and drug use were more likely than ot…
Predicting perceived police effectiveness in public housing: Police contact, police trust, and police responsiveness
Public housing authorities have implemented banishment policies giving police the authority to ban non-residents from public housing and arrest them for trespassing upon violating the ban. Scholars argue that banishment expands police powers because authorities need little reason to ban non-residents, are beyond judicial review, and can lead to racially disparate enforcement. However, it is unclear whether community policing may be able to mediat…
Race/Ethnicity and Stop‐and‐Frisk: Past, Present, Future
Scholarly debates surrounding stop‐and‐frisk typically assess the effectiveness and lawfulness of stop‐and‐frisk. Notwithstanding these efforts, recent reviews have excluded some recent research that addresses its impact on racial and ethnic immigrants. Understanding how the practice of stop‐and‐frisk affects racial and ethnic immigrants is worth including in reviews of these policies, considering the recent growth of research involving crime and…
Banishment in Public Housing: Testing an Evolution of Broken Windows
Banishment policies grant police the authority to formally ban individuals from entering public housing and arrest them for trespassing if they violate the ban. Despite its widespread use and the social consequences resulting from it, an empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of banishment has not been performed. Understanding banishment enforcement is an evolution of broken windows policing, this study explores how effective bans are at reduc…
Civilizing Space or Criminalizing Place: Using Routine Activities Theory to Better Understand How Legal Hybridity Spatially Regulates “Deviant Populations
Banishment: A Test of Specific Deterrence in Public Housing
Research Summary We test the degree to which a public housing banishment policy specifically deters overall drug and violent offenses in public housing using a stratified sample of 345 individuals, banned between 2004 and 2012, in one public housing authority (PHA). We find that individual offending (trespass, drug, violent, gun, and property offenses) in public housing increases after being banned. Increases in trespass offenses, specifically fo…
Cocaine, kicks, and strain: Patterns of substance use in Milwaukee gangs
This study describes the patterns of substance use by male and female gang members in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from their teenage years in the 1980s into adulthood. Milwaukee gangs started out as one form of neighborhood-based drug-using peer group. There was much variation in drug use, and family variables explained little of the variation. Male gang members raised in families with a history of gang involvement and drug use were more likely than ot…
Cocaine, kicks, and strain: Patterns of substance use in Milwaukee gangs
This study describes the patterns of substance use by male and female gang members in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from their teenage years in the 1980s into adulthood. Milwaukee gangs started out as one form of neighborhood-based drug-using peer group. There was much variation in drug use, and family variables explained little of the variation. Male gang members raised in families with a history of gang involvement and drug use were more likely than ot…
Δευς in Cornutus
Use of vitamin D supplements during infancy in an international feeding trial
Objective To examine the use of vitamin D supplements during infancy among the participants in an international infant feeding trial. Design Longitudinal study. Setting Information about vitamin D supplementation was collected through a validated FFQ at the age of 2 weeks and monthly between the ages of 1 month and 6 months. Subjects Infants ( n 2159) with a biological family member affected by type 1 diabetes and with increased human leucocyte a…
Teiresias, the Theban Seer
Waist Circumferences of Chilean Students: Comparison of the CDC-2012 Standard and Proposed Percentile Curves
The measurement of waist circumference (WC) is considered to be an important means to control overweight and obesity in children and adolescents. The objectives of the study were to (a) compare the WC measurements of Chilean students with the international CDC-2012 standard and other international standards, and (b) propose a specific measurement value for the WC of Chilean students based on age and sex. A total of 3892 students (6 to 18 years ol…
Race/Ethnicity and Stop‐and‐Frisk: Past, Present, Future
Scholarly debates surrounding stop‐and‐frisk typically assess the effectiveness and lawfulness of stop‐and‐frisk. Notwithstanding these efforts, recent reviews have excluded some recent research that addresses its impact on racial and ethnic immigrants. Understanding how the practice of stop‐and‐frisk affects racial and ethnic immigrants is worth including in reviews of these policies, considering the recent growth of research involving crime and…
Predicting perceived police effectiveness in public housing: Police contact, police trust, and police responsiveness
Public housing authorities have implemented banishment policies giving police the authority to ban non-residents from public housing and arrest them for trespassing upon violating the ban. Scholars argue that banishment expands police powers because authorities need little reason to ban non-residents, are beyond judicial review, and can lead to racially disparate enforcement. However, it is unclear whether community policing may be able to mediat…
Violencia laboral externa tipo amenaza contra médicos en servicios hospitalarios de Lima Metropolitana, Perú 2014
In the hospitals studied, a large number of doctors have been victims of EWV. Working in public services increases the possibility of violence. Implementation of support, identification, and primary prevention strategies in hospitals is recommended
Banishment in Public Housing: Testing an Evolution of Broken Windows
Banishment policies grant police the authority to formally ban individuals from entering public housing and arrest them for trespassing if they violate the ban. Despite its widespread use and the social consequences resulting from it, an empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of banishment has not been performed. Understanding banishment enforcement is an evolution of broken windows policing, this study explores how effective bans are at reduc…
Addressing the Race Gap in Incarceration Rates: An Agent Based Model
Using an agent-based model of incarceration, the authors conduct a series of simulation experiments testing the efficacy of policy interventions designed to address racial disparities in incarceration rates. The first experiment eliminates race-based sentencing disparities, and additional experiments eliminate race-based sentencing disparities and disrupt the clustering of incarcerated individuals in their social networks. Findings suggest that e…
Banishment: A Test of Specific Deterrence in Public Housing
Research Summary We test the degree to which a public housing banishment policy specifically deters overall drug and violent offenses in public housing using a stratified sample of 345 individuals, banned between 2004 and 2012, in one public housing authority (PHA). We find that individual offending (trespass, drug, violent, gun, and property offenses) in public housing increases after being banned. Increases in trespass offenses, specifically fo…
Predicting law enforcement confidence in going ‘hands-on’: The impact of martial arts training, use-of-force self-efficacy, motivation, and apprehensiveness
In law enforcement, there are situations allowing officers to gain control of suspects by going ‘hands-on,’ or physically placing someone in custody beyond simple handcuffing. While much empirical attention is placed on more lethal use-of-force (UOF) measures, little is known about going hands-on. This is concerning considering when force is used, it is almost always with the use of hands, fist or feet only. The purpose of this pilot study is to …
Under-policing and apprehensiveness toward stopping minorities across white and nonwhite officers post-Ferguson
This pilot study examines police patrol activity, specifically engagement in under-policing, and investigatory-apprehensiveness toward minorities across White and nonwhite patrol officers in the context of policing post-Ferguson. Using a sample of unranked, patrol-duty officers in the United States (n = 887) from an online survey a series of multivariate binary logistic models suggest that although departmental and officer level variables can pre…
Civilizing Space or Criminalizing Place: Using Routine Activities Theory to Better Understand How Legal Hybridity Spatially Regulates “Deviant Populations
Digital tourism platforms and employment precarization in Colombian Caribbean Cities
This study investigates how the expansion of digital accommodation platforms affects labour formalisation in Cartagena, Santa Marta, and San Andrés between 2019 and 2024. Using nationally representative microdata and a difference-in-differences approach, the analysis identifies consistent declines in social security affiliation in high-platform-density areas. Mediation models indicate indirect effects through transitions to informal employment, w…
Differential Effects of Skilled and Unskilled Migration on Formal Sector Wage Structures in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan During Economic Transition
This study examined how skilled and unskilled migration differentially affected formal sector wage structures in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2024. Using difference-in-differences analysis with instrumental variables on region-sector-quarter panel data, the research found skilled migration generated wage premiums 2.2 times larger than unskilled migration effects. Instrumental variable estimates revealed skilled migration increased wages…
Educational Infrastructure Efficiency in China: A Dual-Method Provincial Analysis With Cross-National Benchmarking, 2020–2025
This study evaluates the efficiency of educational infrastructure investment in China and Colombia between 2020 and 2025. The research aims to measure technical efficiency, identify institutional and contextual determinants, and assess whether infrastructure investment causally improves educational outcomes. Using a dual-method approach—Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis—combined with panel Granger causality tests, the stu…
MarketSim’s impact on data-driven decision-making: A cross-cultural study of business education in Latin American universities
This study evaluated the effectiveness of MarketSim, an online business simulator, in developing data-driven decision-making skills among undergraduate business students across three Latin American universities. The research followed 215 students from Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador over two academic years, implementing a mixed-methods approach with experimental and control groups. Statistical analyses included McDonald’s Omega coefficients for …
AI-Supported Academic Systems and Dropout Reduction in Latin American Public Universities Between 2019 and 2024
Institutional Quality as a Moderator of Education Investment Effectiveness in Latin American Democracies
This study tested whether institutional quality moderated the relationship between public education investment and educational outcomes in five Latin American democracies from 2013 to 2022. Using panel data analysis with interaction modeling, the investigation found that countries with stronger governance structures achieved substantially greater returns on education spending, with high‐quality institutions producing nearly three times the educat…
Rhythmic Training as Applied Social Intervention in Low-Income Preschool Settings
This study examines a culturally grounded rhythmic intervention as an applied social science strategy to strengthen sustained attention in preschool children from low-income communities in Barranquilla, Colombia. Guided by neural entrainment theory and principles of scholar activism, a 10-week percussion program using Caribbean instruments was implemented in partnership with a public preschool serving marginalized families. A quasi-experimental d…
Assessing Democratic Resilience in Latin America's AI Era: A Diagnostic Framework for Electoral Integrity Preparedness
This study develops the first systematic diagnostic framework for assessing electoral integrity resilience against AI-enabled manipulation in Latin America. Drawing on institutional theory and comparative democratisation literature, the analysis examines six countries to assess how institutional capacity and AI regulatory preparedness shape electoral integrity maintenance. Using data from the Electoral Integrity Project, Freedom House, V-Dem, and…
Origin-Country Credential Recognition Policies and Employment Outcomes: A Comparative Study of Migrants in the Colombian Caribbean
This study examined educational credential recognition effects on labor market outcomes for migrants in Colombia’s Caribbean region. Analyzing data from 782 migrants across three cities using multinomial regression, Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, and spatial econometrics, findings showed credential recognition increased formal employment probability by 28.4 percentage points while decreasing informal employment by 31.9 percentage points. Women fac…
National and International Mass Shootings: Examining How Social Media Impacts College Students’ Perceptions
Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Enforcement (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law enforcement (6 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (6 works)