Young Lives will be presenting a ground breaking package of new research findings on skills development through childhood into early adulthood at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) - Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society (LAMES) 2022 Conference on 3rd - 5th Nov in Peru.
The research funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) uses Young Lives data to explore skills development, the impact of climate change on skills acquisition and the support offered through initiatives such as Public Work Programmes (PWPs).
'Measuring foundational cognitive skills in developing countries: the role of early-life investments, shocks, social programs, and its implications' will take place at 13.30 (Peru time) on November 5th. Young Lives team members from the UK and Peru, together with partners, will present:
- Overview of the NIH funded project, Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania
- The impacts of early-life investments in nutrition on late-childhood FCS: The case of Ethiopia and Peru, Marta Favara, University of Oxford
- The impacts of exposure to climatic variations on late childhood FCS in Peru and Ethiopia Nicolas Pazos, University of Nottingham
- Social protection and foundational cognitive skills during adolescence: evidence from a large Public Works Programme, Richard Freund, University of Oxford
- The impact of the JUNTOS conditional cash transfer program on foundational cognitive skills: Does age of enrollment matter? Alan Sanchez, GRADE
- Late-childhood foundational cognitive skills predict educational outcomes through adolescence and into young adulthood: evidence from Ethiopia and Peru, Jennifer Lopez, GRADE
The session will conclude with brief questions and answers.
The conference chair is Pablo Lavado (Universidad del Pacífico), the LACEA program chairs are Alberto Chong (Georgia State University) and Ana Dammert (Carleton University), and the LAMES program chair is César Martinelli (George Mason University).
Register for the event and participate online in this and other sessions of the conference here: https://lacealames2022.up.edu.pe/register
Full details of the 5 Young Lives papers being presented:
Freund, R., Favara, M., Porter, C., Behrman, J. (2022) “Social protection and foundational cognitive skills during adolescence: evidence from a large Public Works Programme”University of Pennsylvania, PIER working paper 22-022 and IZA Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No 15551
Scott, D., Lopez, J., Sánchez, A., Behrman, J.R. (2022) “The impact of the conditional cash transfer programme JUNTOS on foundational cognitive skills: Does age of enrollment matter?” Penn Institute for Economic Research Working Paper 22-019
Lopez, J., Cueto, S., Favara, M., Sánchez, A. Behrman, J.(2022) “The impacts of late childhood foundational cognitive skills on educational achievements in Ethiopia and Peru” Penn Institute for Economic Research Working Paper 22 - 024
Sanchez, A., Favara, M., Behrman., Sheridan, M. (forthcoming) “Impact of early nutritional status on foundational cognitive skills: evidence from two developing countries”
Pazos, N.,Favara, M., Sanchez, A., Scott, D., Behrman, J. (forthcoming) “The impacts of exposure to climatic variations on late childhood FCS in Peru and Ethiopia”
Young Lives will be presenting a ground breaking package of new research findings on skills development through childhood into early adulthood at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) - Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society (LAMES) 2022 Conference on 3rd - 5th Nov in Peru.
The research funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) uses Young Lives data to explore skills development, the impact of climate change on skills acquisition and the support offered through initiatives such as Public Work Programmes (PWPs).
'Measuring foundational cognitive skills in developing countries: the role of early-life investments, shocks, social programs, and its implications' will take place at 13.30 (Peru time) on November 5th. Young Lives team members from the UK and Peru, together with partners, will present:
- Overview of the NIH funded project, Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania
- The impacts of early-life investments in nutrition on late-childhood FCS: The case of Ethiopia and Peru, Marta Favara, University of Oxford
- The impacts of exposure to climatic variations on late childhood FCS in Peru and Ethiopia Nicolas Pazos, University of Nottingham
- Social protection and foundational cognitive skills during adolescence: evidence from a large Public Works Programme, Richard Freund, University of Oxford
- The impact of the JUNTOS conditional cash transfer program on foundational cognitive skills: Does age of enrollment matter? Alan Sanchez, GRADE
- Late-childhood foundational cognitive skills predict educational outcomes through adolescence and into young adulthood: evidence from Ethiopia and Peru, Jennifer Lopez, GRADE
The session will conclude with brief questions and answers.
The conference chair is Pablo Lavado (Universidad del Pacífico), the LACEA program chairs are Alberto Chong (Georgia State University) and Ana Dammert (Carleton University), and the LAMES program chair is César Martinelli (George Mason University).
Register for the event and participate online in this and other sessions of the conference here: https://lacealames2022.up.edu.pe/register
Full details of the 5 Young Lives papers being presented:
Freund, R., Favara, M., Porter, C., Behrman, J. (2022) “Social protection and foundational cognitive skills during adolescence: evidence from a large Public Works Programme”University of Pennsylvania, PIER working paper 22-022 and IZA Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No 15551
Scott, D., Lopez, J., Sánchez, A., Behrman, J.R. (2022) “The impact of the conditional cash transfer programme JUNTOS on foundational cognitive skills: Does age of enrollment matter?” Penn Institute for Economic Research Working Paper 22-019
Lopez, J., Cueto, S., Favara, M., Sánchez, A. Behrman, J.(2022) “The impacts of late childhood foundational cognitive skills on educational achievements in Ethiopia and Peru” Penn Institute for Economic Research Working Paper 22 - 024
Sanchez, A., Favara, M., Behrman., Sheridan, M. (forthcoming) “Impact of early nutritional status on foundational cognitive skills: evidence from two developing countries”
Pazos, N.,Favara, M., Sanchez, A., Scott, D., Behrman, J. (forthcoming) “The impacts of exposure to climatic variations on late childhood FCS in Peru and Ethiopia”