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How Gender Shapes Adolescence: Diverging paths and opportunities
This Young Lives policy brief emphasizes the need for a greater understanding of how gender inequalities appear and form during adolescence, and what causes inequality to shift and persist in different ways within and between countries. By using a unique
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How Inequalities Develop Through Childhood: Life course evidence from the Young Lives Cohort study
This paper explores the processes of how and why inequalities emerge; their impact on children's lives and future prospects; the extent to which inequalities in individual capacities contribute to the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage; and th
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Is Child Work Detrimental to the Educational Achievement of Children?: Results from Young Lives in Ethiopia
Produced by Young Lives, this paper explores the effect of child labour on children’s school accomplishments as measured by the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT). The results show that children’s work had a negative effect on achievement in education
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Child Marriage and Female Circumcision (FGM/C): Evidence from Ethiopia
Child marriage and female circumcision are linked practices that are widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa; they are common traditions in Ethiopia. Although regional bodies and governments have made strong commitments to ending both practices, they still remai
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Changing Children's Lives: Risks and Opportunities. Young Lives Policy Paper
Children’s development and well-being are significantly influenced by their family and community environment, with poor and marginalised children facing a heavier burden of risk. This paper summarises emerging findings from Young Lives to show how childre
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Children's Multidimensional Health and Medium-Run Cognitive Skills in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This paper examines the effects of children’s health on their education in later life stages in low- and middle-income countries. It has the following four objectives: To explore whether the positive relationship between children’s height and cognitive sk
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Harmful Traditional Practices and Child Protection. Contested Understandings and Practices of Female Child Marriage and Circumcision in Ethiopia. Working Paper 93
This paper explores local perspectives on female child marriage and circumcision in Ethiopia. Both practices are widespread still, despite international and national efforts to eradicate them, and reflect deep-rooted patriarchal and gerontocratic values r
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Moving to Condominium Housing? Views about the Prospect among Caregivers and Children in Addis Ababa and Hawassa, Ethiopia. Young Lives Working Paper No. 106
The urban landscape in Ethiopia is currently undergoing a fundamental transformation, with whole neighbourhoods in the centre of major cities being cleared for urban development. The urban renewal programmes have the twin objectives of promoting urban gro
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Women’s Political Reservation, Early Childhood Development and Learning in India. Young Lives Working Paper No. 110
This paper analyzes the long-term impacts of reservation of local political seats for women on children’s learning outcomes in rural Andhra Pradesh, India. Using the random rotation of seats reserved for women over different election cycles, and three rou
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Shocks, Borrowing Constraints and Schooling in rural Vietnam
The impact of crop and health shocks on child education in rural Vietnam is investigated in this paper using a longitudinal database of Vietnamese children. The author explicitly takes into account borrowing constraints and investigates the different effe
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Children's Experiences of Household Poverty Dynamics in Ethiopia
This study explores household poverty dynamics and child wellbeing in Ethiopian communities and households. Poor families have difficulty dealing with shocks to their household income – drought, poor harvest, etc. – which require them to seek help from th
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Corporal Punishment in Schools in Andhra Pradesh, India: Children’s and Parents’ Views
This working paper contributes to available research on the effects of corporal punishment on children and its implications for their capacity to benefit from school. It looks specifically at the experiences of children aged between 8 and 16 in Andhra Pra