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Five Books: Jo Boyden recommends the best books on Children
20 May 2016

Jo Boyden, professor of international development at Oxford University and director of its Young Lives study picks books that question our assumptions about how to successfully raise a child.

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Why do healthy girl children grow into undernourished women in India?
29 April 2016

'It is a rare case of statistics confirming a societal stereotype'. Roshan Kishore reports on a recent paper by Young Lives Research Associate Elisabetta Aurino that finds that adolescent girls are not as well-fed as boys of their age.

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Unequal World (Research in Conversation)
17 March 2016

An interview with Professor Jo Boyden as part of the University of Oxford's Research in Conversation online series.

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More or Less Equal? New teaching resources based on Young Lives data
15 January 2016

Bring lessons to life with our new classroom resource created in association with Oxfam Education and based on the Young Lives data and interviews with our study children.

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We’ve reached the end of the MDGs – so, are children better off?
31 December 2015

Jo Boyden, Director of Young Lives writes in The Conversation and considers how well we met the old promises made back in 2000 and how the MDGs specifically affected the 12,000 children in the Young Lives study.

 

Lawrence Hadded
Catching up with the debate on catch up growth and development for young children
18 December 2015

Lawrence Hadded: "Two posts from important researchers working on infant and young child growth.  They both agree that the first 1000 day period after conception is a key intervention opportunity because growth velocity is so high.  They also agree that we should not restrict interventions to thi

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Spending time on domestic chores can impact education, finds study
23 November 2015

Data collected from 952 children and their communities in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana has shown that 12-year-olds who spend three hours or more on household chores in a day are 70% less likely to complete secondary education.

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Corporal punishment of children linked to lower school grades
20 November 2015

Kirrily Pells writes about  new research conducted by Young Lives using longitudinal data from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. The study findings show that children who experienced corporal punishment performed worse in maths, four years later.

Abhijeet Singh’
What can the private sector offer Indian education?
28 October 2015

Abhijeet Singh’s blog on private schools in India asks do private schools really produce more learning, or do they deepen social and economic divides without adding much in terms of actual skills and education?

Alula Pankhurst, Country Director, Young Lives Ethiopia
What needs to be done to keep child marriages trending down
23 June 2015

Alula Pankhurst of Young Lives Ethiopia, writing in The Conversation Africa, outlines what more needs to be done to help the decline in child marriage in Ethiopia.

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