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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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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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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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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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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
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Education Aspirations and Barriers to Achievement for Young People in Ethiopia. Working paper No. 120
This paper reports on the educational aspirations and the challenges facing children living in poor communities in Ethiopia. Using Young Lives survey and qualitative longitudinal data, the paper finds that children hold high educational aspirations and ma
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Parents’ Perspectives on Quality of Schooling in Andhra Pradesh, India
The Post-Millenium Development Goals development agenda recognises that simply getting children enrolled in school does not equate with better learning outcomes for children. Globally, there is an ‘education, learning and skills crisis’ with vast numbers
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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
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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
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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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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