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Young Lives siblings research wins IADB funding
The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) will contribute almost $60,000 USD for the Young Lives proposal "Early Childhood Development in Peru: Evidence from Young Lives children and their siblings.”
This proposal, submitted by Young Lives partners Oxford University, GRADE, and IIN, has been selected for funding as part of the wider international call for research on Improving Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, sponsored by the Research Department of IADB. The IADB congratulated Young Lives for the excellent quality of our proposal and of our research team.
The funded research is on Early Child Development (ECD) outcomes in Peru and their association with family characteristics, investments and environmental factors. Young Lives is in the unique position of exploring causal links between early childhood development and health and cognitive outcomes later on life. The funding supports an extension to the existing longitudinal dataset of a cohort of just over 2000 children currently aged 8-9 years by gathering information on their younger sibling. Collecting data on the birth weight, anthropometrics and cognitive development of the younger sibling of our existing cohort allows us to greatly reduce the problem of household heterogeneity due to unobservable investments in the child, and more rigorously evaluate the role of poverty, risk and other factors on ECD. The team, led by Professor Stefan Dercon comprises researchers in Oxford and Lima who have an international reputation in the fields of applied microeconomics, child development, psychology and nutrition. Researchers include Catherine Porter, Santiago Cueto, Javier Escobal, Mary Penny, Ingo Outes-Leon and Alan Sanchez.
Contact Young Lives if interested in further details about this research.
Click here for more information about the over-arching IADB project.