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Psychosocial Scales in the Young Lives Round 4 Survey: Selection, Adaptation and Validation

The importance of positive psychosocial functioning for children’s current wellbeing and for their future outcomes is recognised across a range of disciplines, yet research on the psychosocial development of individuals in developing countries is in its infancy.

Young Lives has contributed to closing this knowledge gap through extensive data collection on a range of measures of psychosocial skill domains, administered in schools and households in developing countries, where large-scale survey data that include measures of psychosocial constructs are rare.

Psychosocial Scales in the Young Lives Round 4 Survey: Selection, Adaptation and Validation

The importance of positive psychosocial functioning for children’s current wellbeing and for their future outcomes is recognised across a range of disciplines, yet research on the psychosocial development of individuals in developing countries is in its infancy.

Young Lives has contributed to closing this knowledge gap through extensive data collection on a range of measures of psychosocial skill domains, administered in schools and households in developing countries, where large-scale survey data that include measures of psychosocial constructs are rare.

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Psychosocial Status and Cognitive Achievement in Peru

This article in the Review of Development Economics, presents the results of a quantitative analysis that measured the relationship between psychosocial status at the age of 8, and the development of cognitive skills four years later. The data were taken from 700 Peruvian children who completed the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Raven's Progressive Matrices. These two tests provided scores for cognitive skill achievement.

Psychosocial Status and Cognitive Achievement in Peru

This article in the Review of Development Economics, presents the results of a quantitative analysis that measured the relationship between psychosocial status at the age of 8, and the development of cognitive skills four years later. The data were taken from 700 Peruvian children who completed the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Raven's Progressive Matrices. These two tests provided scores for cognitive skill achievement.

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Migration from Rural to Urban Areas and Vocabulary Development

A journal article titled Migration from Rural to Urban Areas and Vocabulary Development by María Cristina Vásquez Bendezú has been published in Revista Peruana De Investigacion Educativa, 9: 199-22..

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Migration from Rural to Urban Areas and Vocabulary Development

A journal article titled Migration from Rural to Urban Areas and Vocabulary Development by María Cristina Vásquez Bendezú has been published in Revista Peruana De Investigacion Educativa, 9: 199-22..

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Association between Caesarean Delivery and Childhood Asthma in India and Vietnam

A journal article titled Association between Caesarean Delivery and Childhood Asthma in India and Vietnam by Tina Lavin and David Preen has been published in Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 31(1), 47-54. 

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Association between Caesarean Delivery and Childhood Asthma in India and Vietnam

A journal article titled Association between Caesarean Delivery and Childhood Asthma in India and Vietnam by Tina Lavin and David Preen has been published in Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 31(1), 47-54. 

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Investigating Caesarean Section Birth as a Risk Factor for Childhood Overweight

A journal article titled Investigating Caesarean Section Birth as a Risk Factor for Childhood Overweight by Tina Lavin & David Preen has been published in Childhood Obesity, 14 (2). 

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Investigating Caesarean Section Birth as a Risk Factor for Childhood Overweight

A journal article titled Investigating Caesarean Section Birth as a Risk Factor for Childhood Overweight by Tina Lavin & David Preen has been published in Childhood Obesity, 14 (2). 

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The Impact of Child Malnutrition and Health on Cognitive Skills in Ethiopia: Using a Standard Panel Data Analysis

A chapter titled The Impact of Child Malnutrition and Health on Cognitive Skills in Ethiopia: Using a Standard Panel Data Analysis by Kahsay Berhane Lemma, has now been published in: Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa, edited by Almas Heshmati.

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Over the past two decades, Ethiopia has made significant progress in key human development indicators. Child mortality and nutrition have improved and primary school enrolments have increased.

The Impact of Child Malnutrition and Health on Cognitive Skills in Ethiopia: Using a Standard Panel Data Analysis

A chapter titled The Impact of Child Malnutrition and Health on Cognitive Skills in Ethiopia: Using a Standard Panel Data Analysis by Kahsay Berhane Lemma, has now been published in: Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa, edited by Almas Heshmati.

The author's abstract reads:

Over the past two decades, Ethiopia has made significant progress in key human development indicators. Child mortality and nutrition have improved and primary school enrolments have increased.

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Maternal group participation and child nutritional status in Peru

Using data from the Peruvian sample of the Young Lives study, this paper investigates the association between maternal group participation and child nutritional status at the ages of 1 and 5 years. This study finds that the relationship between child nutrition and maternal group participation depends on the level of maternal education. In fact, maternal group participation is positively associated with child height‐for‐age when children were 1 year old, for those children whose mothers had had no formal education. This same association fades at 5 years of age.

Maternal group participation and child nutritional status in Peru

Using data from the Peruvian sample of the Young Lives study, this paper investigates the association between maternal group participation and child nutritional status at the ages of 1 and 5 years. This study finds that the relationship between child nutrition and maternal group participation depends on the level of maternal education. In fact, maternal group participation is positively associated with child height‐for‐age when children were 1 year old, for those children whose mothers had had no formal education. This same association fades at 5 years of age.

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Psychosocial Scales in the Young Lives Round 4 Survey: Selection, Adaptation and Validation

The importance of positive psychosocial functioning for children’s current well-being and for their future outcomes is recognised across a range of disciplines, yet research on the psychosocial development of individuals in developing countries is in its infancy.

Young Lives has contributed to closing this knowledge gap through extensive data collection on a range of measures of psychosocial skill domains, administered in schools and households in developing countries, where large-scale survey data that include measures of psychosocial constructs are rare.

Psychosocial Scales in the Young Lives Round 4 Survey: Selection, Adaptation and Validation

The importance of positive psychosocial functioning for children’s current well-being and for their future outcomes is recognised across a range of disciplines, yet research on the psychosocial development of individuals in developing countries is in its infancy.

Young Lives has contributed to closing this knowledge gap through extensive data collection on a range of measures of psychosocial skill domains, administered in schools and households in developing countries, where large-scale survey data that include measures of psychosocial constructs are rare.

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Effect of preschool education on cognitive achievement and subjective wellbeing at age 12: evidence from India

This mixed methods study draws upon Young Lives India longitudinal data to analyse whether children who attended private preschools demonstrate higher cognitive skills and enhanced subjective wellbeing at the age of 12 compared to those who attended government preschools in India. Using linear logistic regression models, the analysis reveals that children who attended private preschools have significantly higher mathematics scores and more positive subjective wellbeing than those in government preschools. The propensity score matching technique further substantiates this finding.

Effect of preschool education on cognitive achievement and subjective wellbeing at age 12: evidence from India

This mixed methods study draws upon Young Lives India longitudinal data to analyse whether children who attended private preschools demonstrate higher cognitive skills and enhanced subjective wellbeing at the age of 12 compared to those who attended government preschools in India. Using linear logistic regression models, the analysis reveals that children who attended private preschools have significantly higher mathematics scores and more positive subjective wellbeing than those in government preschools. The propensity score matching technique further substantiates this finding.

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Association between Hib vaccination and child anthropometric outcomes in Andhra Pradesh: Evidence from the Young Lives Study

This article published in the Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice  2017, 25 (6)  uses Young Lives data from India to examine the association between the Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib) vaccination and child anthropometric outcomes in India.

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Association between Hib vaccination and child anthropometric outcomes in Andhra Pradesh: Evidence from the Young Lives Study

This article published in the Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice  2017, 25 (6)  uses Young Lives data from India to examine the association between the Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib) vaccination and child anthropometric outcomes in India.

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