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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. 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

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. 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

5. 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

   Publication year: 2014 Publisher(s): Young Lives | ODID, Oxford Department of International Development Author(s): Pells, Kirrily | Woodhead, Martin

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

9. 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

   Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Young Lives | ODID, Oxford Department of International Development Author(s): Pathak, Yuvraj | Macours, Karen

10. 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

    Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Young Lives | ODID, Oxford Department of International Development Author(s): Tien Dung, Nguyen

11. 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

    Publication year: 2014 Publisher(s): Young Lives Author(s): Tafere, Yisak

12. 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

    Publication year: 2014 Publisher(s): Young Lives Author(s): Morrow, Virginia | Singh, Renu

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