The complexities of intergenerational and gendered intra-household resource allocations are frequently overlooked in poverty reduction policies. To address this lacuna, this article focuses on links between macro-development policies and children's paid and unpaid work burden in Ethiopia.

This paper investigates the impact of usage patterns of water and sanitation on the health of children in Ethiopia, once supply side factors are controlled for. A comprehensive set of controls is employed to account for individual heterogeneity driven by time-invariant unobservables, time-invariant and time-variant observables. The results from the pooled cross-section estimated by OLS suggest that there is a strong relationship between water and sanitation choices of a household and a child's weight-for-age z-scores.

Young Lives is a longitudinal research project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty. The study is tracking the development of 12,000 children in Ethiopia, Peru, India (Andhra Pradesh) and Vietnam through qualitative and quantitative research over a 15-year period. Since 2002, the study has been following two cohorts in each study country. The younger cohort consists of 2,000 children per study country aged between 6 and 18 months in 2002. The older cohort consists of 1,000 children per country aged between 7.5 and 8.5 in 2002.