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What is the Value of Qualitative Longitudinal Research with Children and Young People for International Development?

This paper draws on data from Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty, to explore how international development research might be strengthened by including qualitative longitudinal research. We review three problems in development studies: a) the relatively low status of qualitative research within the hierarchy of development knowledge, b) the predominance of cross-sectional research, and, c) marginality of research with children and young people.

What is the Value of Qualitative Longitudinal Research with Children and Young People for International Development?

This paper draws on data from Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty, to explore how international development research might be strengthened by including qualitative longitudinal research. We review three problems in development studies: a) the relatively low status of qualitative research within the hierarchy of development knowledge, b) the predominance of cross-sectional research, and, c) marginality of research with children and young people.

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Children's Own Time Use and its Effect on Skill Formation

Using time-use data from a longitudinal survey (covering Ethiopia, India and Vietnam), the present study examines how the amount of time children spend on different activities impacts their acquisition of cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Modeling the skill formation production function of children and extending the set of inputs to include the child's own time inputs, the study finds that child involvement in work activities such as domestic chores and paid activities are associated with a reduction in both cognitive and non-cognitive achievements.

Children's Own Time Use and its Effect on Skill Formation

Using time-use data from a longitudinal survey (covering Ethiopia, India and Vietnam), the present study examines how the amount of time children spend on different activities impacts their acquisition of cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Modeling the skill formation production function of children and extending the set of inputs to include the child's own time inputs, the study finds that child involvement in work activities such as domestic chores and paid activities are associated with a reduction in both cognitive and non-cognitive achievements.

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How Inequalities Develop through Childhood

This paper contributes longitudinal research evidence on the impact of structural inequalities on children’s development within households and communities, the ways access to health, education and other key services may reduce or amplify inequalities, and the ways that children’s developmental trajectories diverge from early in life through to early adulthood.

Our starting point is a series of key questions about how inequalities develop through the life-course:

How Inequalities Develop through Childhood

This paper contributes longitudinal research evidence on the impact of structural inequalities on children’s development within households and communities, the ways access to health, education and other key services may reduce or amplify inequalities, and the ways that children’s developmental trajectories diverge from early in life through to early adulthood.

Our starting point is a series of key questions about how inequalities develop through the life-course:

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Preventing child mortality and addressing ‘the lottery of birth’
Preventing child mortality and addressing ‘the lottery of birth’

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Does Teaching Quality Matter? Students learning outcome related to teaching quality in public and private primary schools in India

This paper investigates how teaching quality impacts students' outcomes in public and low fee charging private schools in India. Drawing on Young Lives longitudinal study, students in private schools have a significantly higher mathematics score than public schools. Across public and private schools, teachers' characteristics such as experience, gender, content knowledge and general education qualifications do not have significant influence on students? learning outcome.

Does Teaching Quality Matter? Students learning outcome related to teaching quality in public and private primary schools in India

This paper investigates how teaching quality impacts students' outcomes in public and low fee charging private schools in India. Drawing on Young Lives longitudinal study, students in private schools have a significantly higher mathematics score than public schools. Across public and private schools, teachers' characteristics such as experience, gender, content knowledge and general education qualifications do not have significant influence on students? learning outcome.

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Short-term and Long-term Associations between Household Wealth and Physical Growth

Background: Stunting, a form of anthropometric failure, disproportionately affects children in developing countries with a higher burden on children living in poverty. How early life deprivation affects physical growth over various life stages is less well-known.

Objective: We investigate the short- and long-run associations between household wealth in early life with physical growth in childhood in four low- and middle-income countries to understand the persistent implications of early life conditions of poverty and resource constraints on physical growth.

Short-term and Long-term Associations between Household Wealth and Physical Growth

Background: Stunting, a form of anthropometric failure, disproportionately affects children in developing countries with a higher burden on children living in poverty. How early life deprivation affects physical growth over various life stages is less well-known.

Objective: We investigate the short- and long-run associations between household wealth in early life with physical growth in childhood in four low- and middle-income countries to understand the persistent implications of early life conditions of poverty and resource constraints on physical growth.

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Cash for Class: An Investigation into Child Labour and Enrolment Subsidies in Peru

With high rates of child labour as a result of extensive poverty in Peru, measures are needed to protect children from exploitation. The conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme Juntos provides enrolment subsidies to incentivise sending children to school, with an indirect goal of keeping them out of the labour market. Previous research however indicates that Juntos beneficiary children engage in more unpaid labour than expected.

Cash for Class: An Investigation into Child Labour and Enrolment Subsidies in Peru

With high rates of child labour as a result of extensive poverty in Peru, measures are needed to protect children from exploitation. The conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme Juntos provides enrolment subsidies to incentivise sending children to school, with an indirect goal of keeping them out of the labour market. Previous research however indicates that Juntos beneficiary children engage in more unpaid labour than expected.

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Preliminary data from Round 4 in Vietnam
Preliminary data from Round 4 in Vietnam
Latin American Students Improve Learning Achievements
Latin American Students Improve Learning Achievements

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Social Support and Social Networks for Children Growing Up in Poverty in Rural Andhra Pradesh

It is broadly accepted that social networks and social resources, and social support (social capital), in the form of personal, familial, and community-level relationships are crucially important to children as they grow up.

Social Support and Social Networks for Children Growing Up in Poverty in Rural Andhra Pradesh

It is broadly accepted that social networks and social resources, and social support (social capital), in the form of personal, familial, and community-level relationships are crucially important to children as they grow up.

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