Parallel papers presented
FOCUS ON CHILDREN: BREAKING THE CYCLE OF POVERTY
Young Lives International Conference
St Anne’s College, Oxford, 25 to 27 March 2009
All abstracts [PDF file 292 KB]
Children’s psychosocial well-being
1. Stefan Dercon and Pramila Krishnan: Poverty and the psychosocial competencies of children
2. Oswaldo Molina, Ingo Outes, Alan Sanchez: Psychosocial status and cognitive achievement in Peru
3. Ngoc P. Nguyen: What makes a child happy? The link between family income, social networks and subjective well-being in Vietnam
4. Catherine Porter and Karin Heissler: Know your place: qualitative and quantitative insights into child labour in Ethiopia
Children’s contribution and sense of belonging
1. Jo Boyden: Issues and debates in researching children’s responses to adversity: Young Lives findings from Ethiopia
2. Kate Bird and Kate Higgins: Conflict and the intergenerational transmission of poverty in northern Uganda
3. Elizabeth Cooper: Children audit adults’ love: what parents’ spending of time and money tell children about their belonging
4. Gillian Mann: On being despised: growing up a Congolese refugee in Dar es Salaam
Poverty and inequality
1. Stefan Dercon: Multidimensional approaches to understanding childhood poverty
2. Valpy
FitzGerald: Financial globalisation and child well-being [PDF file 67 KB]
3. Paul Glewwe: “Pro-poor growth” and children in developing countries: the case of Vietnam
The political economy of childhood poverty
1. Philippa Bevan: Towards more effective policies for youth in poor countries: a political-cultural-economy analysis of transitions from childhood to adulthood in Ethiopia
2.
Jason Hart: Business as usual? The global political
economy of childhood poverty [PDF file 427 KB]
3. Caitlin Porter: Challenges associated with assessing programme impact in the context of longitudinal research: the importance of a political economy perspective
Education
1. Patricia Ames et al.: School transitions in early childhood: a longitudinal study from Peru
2. Santiago Cueto et al.: Explaining and overcoming marginalisation in education: a focus on ethnic and language minorities in Peru
3. Christian Helmers and Manasa Patnam: The formation and evolution of childhood skill acquisition: evidence from India
4.
Kenneth King: Educating out of poverty: beyond
primary education
5. Ivy Ko and Jing Xing: Extra classes and subjective well-being: empirical evidence from Vietnamese children
6. Le Thuc Duc: Cognitive achievement of children in Vietnam: the effects of child poverty characteristics
7. Florencia Lopez Boo: The production function of children's cognitive skills: health, parental investment and caste test score gaps
8. Arnab Mukherji: Does the early bird catch the worm? Starting school in developing countries
9. Caine Rolleston: The achievement of 'education for all' in the context of sub-Saharan Africa
10. Ajay K. Sinha: Monitoring budget allocation and expenditure for quality education in Andhra Pradesh (India)
11. Michèle Smith and David Bainton: Innovation in context: achieving quality education for all through dialoguing qualitative and quantitative research
12. Yisak Tafere: Educational trajectories of children living in poverty: a case study of five communities in Ethiopia
13. Hang Mai Thuy: Local perspectives on improving the quality of primary education in poor and ethnic minority areas of Vietnam
14. Chi Truong: Situated agency: contextualising experiences and perceptions of ethnicity of children in the multi-ethnic highlands of Vietnam
15. Uma Vennam and Anuradha Komanduri: Negotiating transitions to school: the role of early education
16. Martin Woodhead: Is early childhood education fulfilling its promise?
Health and nutrition
1. Inka Barnett: Dual forms of malnutrition in the same household: evidence from the four Young Lives countries
2. Lita Cameron: Does 'improved' sanitation make children healthier? Household pit latrines and child health in Ethiopia
3. Kirk Dearden et al.: Whither the father: how early paternal absence in Peru affects children's long-term well-being
4. Rozana Himaz: Persistent stunting in middle childhood: the case of Andhra Pradesh using longitudinal data
5. Alan Sanchez: Early nutrition and cognitive achievement of pre-school children in Peru
6. Silvana Vargas and Mary Penny: Assessing time allocation, health status and food consumption profiles: a comparison among working and non-working adolescents in Peru
7. Doug West, Steve Allender et al.: Preliminary results from the construction of a composite measure of urbanisation as a risk factor for child obesity
Work and learning
1. Gina Crivello: Intergenerational change and continuity: the role of school, work and migration in “becoming somebody in life” in Peru
2. Andy Dawes, Susan Levine et al.: Child agricultural work in South Africa: A study of contested developmental space
3. S. Galab and Ingo Outes: Schooling and Work in the Time of Drought
4. Sofya Krutikova: Determinants of Child Labour in Andhra Pradesh
5. Virginia Morrow and Uma Vennam: Children's accounts of combining work and education in cottonseed production in Andhra Pradesh: implications for discourses of children's rights in India
6. Kate Orkin: Child work, school enrolment and grade progression in rural Ethiopia
7. Pieter Serneels and Stefan Dercon: Aspirations, poverty and education
Risk, resilience and well-being
1. Laura Camfield: Exploring resilience among older children in urban Ethiopia: a case-based approach
2. Javier Escobal and Eva Flores: Maternal migration and child well-being in Peru
3. Rozana Himaz: The impact of parental death on schooling and subjective well-being in Ethiopia
4. Ingo Outes and Catherine Porter: Risk and early child development in rural Ethiopia
5. Tassew Woldehanna: Economic shocks and child welfare: the effect of past economic shocks on child nutritional achievements, schooling and work in rural and urban Ethiopia
Social Protection
1. Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Norbert G. Schady: Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling and health
2. Bekele Tefere: The Ethiopian Health Care Financing Strategy: household perceptions and experiences of coping with user fees
3. Abhijeet Singh: Do school meals work: treatment evaluation of the Midday Meal Scheme in India [PDF file 477 KB]
4. Natalia Streuli: Exploring children’s and families experiences and views of Juntos: a conditional cash transfer programme in Peru
5. Jenn Yablonski and Michael Sampson: Developing an integrated child-focused social protection model in Rwanda
Innovations in methodology
1. Gina Crivello et al.: Young Lives qualitative research: an overview of methodology, challenges and opportunities
2.
Santiago Cueto et al.: Psychometric characteristics
of cognitive development and achievement instruments in Round 2 of Young Lives [PDF file 378 KB] Annexes [PDF file 1482 KB]
3. Javier Escobal and Alan Sanchez: Can the Young Lives samples be used to extrapolate at the national level?
4. Virginia Morrow: The ethics of longitudinal research with children, families and communities in diverse cultural contexts: practical experiences with Young Lives
5. Mary Penny et al: Selection and training of supervisors for fieldwork: experiences from Young Lives in Peru
6. Anna Wansbrough-Jones: Children’s participation in policy and communications work
7. Anne Yates: Using hand-held computers for data collection in developing country contexts: a pilot study