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1. 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

   Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): Young Lives

2. 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

   Publication year: 2014 Publisher(s): Save the Children | Young Lives Author(s): Pankhurst, Alula

3. 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

   Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): Young Lives Author(s): Woldehanna, Tassew | Gebremedhin, Aregawi

4. 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

   Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti | Young Lives Author(s): Dornan, Paul | Woodhead, Martin

5. Children's Well-Being and Work in Sub-Saharan Africa

   

   This policy brief examines how work impacts children’s opportunities to learn, their physical health, as well as their subjective well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on research presented by Young Lives and Save the Children at an East African Regio

   Publication year: 2014 Publisher(s): Save the Children | Young Lives | ACPF, The African C ...

6. 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

   Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Young Lives | ODID, Oxford Department of International Development Author(s): Boyden, Jo | Pankhurst, Alula | Tafere, Yisak

7. Size and Sources of the Private School Premium in Test Scores in India. Young Lives Working Paper No. 98

   

   This paper uses unique panel data to estimate value-added models of learning production in private and government schools in Andhra Pradesh (India), examine heterogeneity in the value-added of private schools, and identify the sources of learning in these

   Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Young Lives | ODID, Oxford Department of International Development Author(s): Singh, Abhijeet

8. Aspiration Failure: A poverty trap for indigenous children in Peru? Young Lives Working Paper No. 116

   

   This paper aims to contribute to understand the mechanisms underlying the complex exclusion process of indigenous people in Peru, by analysing the role played by aspirations in the investment in education of indigenous children. Aspirations of indigenous

   Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Young Lives | ODID, Oxford Department of International Development Author(s): Pasquier-Doumer, Laure | Risso Brand, Fiorella

9. Living in Urban Areas due for Redevelopment: Views of Children and their Families in Addis Ababa and Hawassa. Young Lives Working Paper No. 105

   

   This report is the first of three resulting from a sub-study conducted by Young Lives in four communities in Ethiopia, three in Addis Ababa and one in Hawassa, to examine what happens to children and their families living in areas that are due to be redev

   Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Young Lives | ODID, Oxford Department of International Development Author(s): Pankhurst, Alula | Tiumelissan, Agazi

10. Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality: Young Lives Working Paper No. 117

    

    There is considerable emphasis in academic and policy literatures on intergenerational transmissions of poverty and inequality. The perception is that improving schooling attainment and income/consumption for parents in poor households will result in impo

    Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Young Lives | ODID, Oxford Department of International Development Author(s): Behrman, Jere R. | Schott, Whitney | Mani, Subha | Crookston, Benjamin T. | ...

11. Emergence and Evolution of Learning Gaps Across Countries: Panel evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam

    

    The author uses a Young Lives dataset, collected between 2002 and 2009, to investigate a series of questions relating to learning assessments in education, the age at which development gaps appear between countries, and how these gaps and differences can

    Publication year: 2014 Publisher(s): Young Lives Author(s): Singh, Abhijeet

12. 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

    Publication year: 2014 Publisher(s): Young Lives Author(s): Aurino, Elisabetta | Burchi, Francesco

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