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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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Young People’s Aspirations and Experiences of Schooling in Andhra Pradesh, India

Increasing rates of school enrolment have changed childhoods in the global South, so that it is now the norm for children to attend at least some years of primary school. This paper explores the extent to which valuing of children as educational projects and outcomes may be displacing previous valuations of children as contributors to the domestic economy.

Young People’s Aspirations and Experiences of Schooling in Andhra Pradesh, India

Increasing rates of school enrolment have changed childhoods in the global South, so that it is now the norm for children to attend at least some years of primary school. This paper explores the extent to which valuing of children as educational projects and outcomes may be displacing previous valuations of children as contributors to the domestic economy.

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Universal Truths or Hidden Realities

Combining qualitative and quantitative longitudinal data to study chronic poverty is now recognised to provide deep and reliable insights. This paper uses quantitative and qualitative data collected by Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty, to identify factors that contribute to households becoming or remaining poor in rural Ethiopia and the effects of movements in and out of poverty on children within those households.

Universal Truths or Hidden Realities

Combining qualitative and quantitative longitudinal data to study chronic poverty is now recognised to provide deep and reliable insights. This paper uses quantitative and qualitative data collected by Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty, to identify factors that contribute to households becoming or remaining poor in rural Ethiopia and the effects of movements in and out of poverty on children within those households.

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Young Lives school research presented at World Comparative Education Congress
Young Lives school research presented at World Comparative Education Congress
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