Working papers

Female Labour-Force Participation and Child Education in India The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

02 May 2013

Young Lives Working Paper 95, Farzana Afridi, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Soham Sahoo

A rise in the mother's share of parental NREGS workdays increases the school attendance and grade attainment of her children, particularly girls.

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Shocks, Borrowing Constraints and Schooling in Rural Vietnam

15 Mar 2013

Young Lives Working Paper 94, Nguyen Tien Dung

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Harmful Traditional Practices and Child Protection Contested Understandings and Practices of Female Child Marriage and Circumcision in Ethiopia

27 Feb 2013

Young Lives Working Paper 93, Jo Boyden, Alula Pankhurst and Yisak Tafere

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Young Lives School Survey in Peru Design and Initial Findings

21 Dec 2012

Young Lives Working Paper 92, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Elizabeth Rosales, Mayli Zapata, Silvana Freire, Víctor Saldarriaga and Santiago Cueto

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Teaching Quality Counts How Student Outcomes Relate to Quality of Teaching in Private and Public Schools in India

20 Dec 2012

Young Lives Working Paper 91, Renu Singh and Sudipa Sarkar

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Understanding Community Variation and Change in Ethiopia Implications for Children

19 Dec 2012

Young Lives Working Paper 90, Alula Pankhurst and Agazi Tiumelissan

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The Effects of Pre-school Attendance on the Cognitive Development of Urban Children aged 5 and 8 Years Evidence from Ethiopia

17 Dec 2012

Young Lives Working Paper 89, Tassew Woldehanna and Liyousew Gebremedhin

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Shocks and Primary School Drop-out Rates A Study of 20 Sentinel Sites in Ethiopia

16 Dec 2012

Young Lives Working Paper 88, Tassew Woldehanna and Adiam Hagos

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Do Extra Classes Improve Cognitive Test Scores? Evidence from Vietnam

15 Dec 2012

Young Lives Working Paper 87, Le Thuc Duc and Bob Baulch

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Nutritional Trajectories in Childhood What factors can foster recovery from chronic malnutrition?

30 Nov 2012

CIES/Proyecto Mediano Final Report (PM07-2011), Carmen Ponce

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Children's Experiences and Perceptions of Poverty in Ethiopia

26 Oct 2012

Working Paper 85, Yisak Tafere

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Chronic Poverty Amid Growth Insights from Long-Term Poverty Trajectories

23 Oct 2012

Working Paper 84, Uma Vennam and Janki Andharia

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Delivering Quality Early Learning in Low-resource Settings Progress and Challenges in Ethiopia

29 Sep 2012

Bernard van Leer Foundation Working Papers in Early Childhood Development 59, Kate Orkin, Workneh Abebe Yadete and Martin Woodhead

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Beyond Food Security: Transforming the PSNP in Ethiopia for the Well-being of Children

23 Sep 2012

Working Paper 83, Yisak Tafere and Tassew Woldehanna

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From Policy to Implementation: An In-depth Exploration of the MGNREGs in Andhra Pradesh

22 Sep 2012

Working Paper 82, Laura Camfield and Uma Vennam

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Do Vietnamese Schools Provide the Right Education for an Industrialising Country?

21 Sep 2012

Working Paper 81, Bob Baulch, Vu Hoang Dat and Nguyen Thang

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What Determines Learning Among Kinh and Ethnic Minority Students in Vietnam An Analysis of the Round 2 Young Lives Data

20 Sep 2012

Working Paper 80, Paul Glewwe, Qihui Chen, Bhagyashree Katare

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Chronic and Extreme Poverty in rural Ethiopia Through the Lens of Life Histories

16 Jul 2012

IDS Working Paper Volume 2012 no 399, Laura Camfield and Keetie Roelen

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Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality of Opportunity in Peru Taking Advantage of the Longitudinal Dimension of Young Lives

26 Jun 2012

Working Paper 79, Javier Escobal

Although scalar indices of multidimensional poverty, deprivations or inequality of opportunity may be quite useful as an advocacy tool, they may mask important heterogeneities, suggests Young Lives research.

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We need to end child poverty in order to break the cycle of poverty.