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‘There’s no future here’: Youth migration, hope and inequality
‘There’s no future here’: Youth migration, hope and inequality
Where do nearly 9 in 10 children read books outside school?
Where do nearly 9 in 10 children read books outside school?

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Making Progress: Report of the Young Lives School Survey in Vietnam

In recent years Vietnam has achieved high levels of enrolment in basic education and undertaken important reforms intended to improve school quality. To understand home background and school-level influences on pupil achievement and progress and on the effectiveness of schools, classes and teachers, Young Lives conducted a survey of 3,284 Grade 5 pupils in 20 sites across the country in 2011-12.

Making Progress: Report of the Young Lives School Survey in Vietnam

In recent years Vietnam has achieved high levels of enrolment in basic education and undertaken important reforms intended to improve school quality. To understand home background and school-level influences on pupil achievement and progress and on the effectiveness of schools, classes and teachers, Young Lives conducted a survey of 3,284 Grade 5 pupils in 20 sites across the country in 2011-12.

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Le va bien en la vida (Perceptions of well-being of a group of teenagers in Peru)

This working paper looks at teenagers' experiences and opinions about what constitutes well-being for young people. It is based on interviews carried out with teenagers from the Young Lives sample in four districts of Peru, interviewed in 2007, 2008 and again in 2011.

Le va bien en la vida (Perceptions of well-being of a group of teenagers in Peru)

This working paper looks at teenagers' experiences and opinions about what constitutes well-being for young people. It is based on interviews carried out with teenagers from the Young Lives sample in four districts of Peru, interviewed in 2007, 2008 and again in 2011.

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Unplanned Pregnancy and the Impact on Sibling Health Outcomes

This work considers whether planning matters with respect to the effect of a new sibling on another siblings' health. Objective health outcomes are observed before and after a new addition to the family. To date, the literature on family size has focused on a quality-quantity trade-off; the more children in a family, the less resources devoted to each child. We present a theoretical framework which highlights that the quantity-quality trade-off may only be relevant in the case of an unplanned sibling. We also suggest that a planned sibling may result in health gains for the other children.

Unplanned Pregnancy and the Impact on Sibling Health Outcomes

This work considers whether planning matters with respect to the effect of a new sibling on another siblings' health. Objective health outcomes are observed before and after a new addition to the family. To date, the literature on family size has focused on a quality-quantity trade-off; the more children in a family, the less resources devoted to each child. We present a theoretical framework which highlights that the quantity-quality trade-off may only be relevant in the case of an unplanned sibling. We also suggest that a planned sibling may result in health gains for the other children.

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Round 4 of the Young Lives survey starts in India
Round 4 of the Young Lives survey starts in India
The Indian school lunch deaths are tragic but we must not lose perspective
The Indian school lunch deaths are tragic but we must not lose perspective
Teaching Systems must be strengthened for universal schooling to pay off
Teaching Systems must be strengthened for universal schooling to pay off
Conference Overview: Inequalities in Children’s Outcomes in Developing Countries
Conference Overview: Inequalities in Children’s Outcomes in Developing Countries

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Why does Child Trafficking Policy Need to be Reformed?

This article challenges policy discourses that frame children's independent movement as intrinsically exploitative and threatening to their development. Drawing on research with children and adults in Benin and Ethiopia, two countries caught up in current efforts to eradicate child migration and the trafficking with which it has become associated, the article critiques assumptions about children's vulnerability and physical dependence and contests the idea that appropriate childhood is necessarily fixed spatially within stable family structures.

Why does Child Trafficking Policy Need to be Reformed?

This article challenges policy discourses that frame children's independent movement as intrinsically exploitative and threatening to their development. Drawing on research with children and adults in Benin and Ethiopia, two countries caught up in current efforts to eradicate child migration and the trafficking with which it has become associated, the article critiques assumptions about children's vulnerability and physical dependence and contests the idea that appropriate childhood is necessarily fixed spatially within stable family structures.

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