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How is the value that a school adds shared between the students that it serves?
How is the value that a school adds shared between the students that it serves?
Private schools in India: more learning, more inequality?
Private schools in India: more learning, more inequality?
Thinking outside the box: do students in Vietnam have 21st century skills?
Thinking outside the box: do students in Vietnam have 21st century skills?
Work, Care and School in Young Lives: Findings from a fifteen year longitudinal study of childhood poverty
Work, Care and School in Young Lives: Findings from a fifteen year longitudinal study of childhood poverty

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Do Dreams Come True? Aspirations and Educational Attainments of Ethiopian Boys and Girls

We use unique individual-level panel data from Ethiopia to investigate the role of aspirations for human-capital investments. More specifically, we investigate how parental and children's aspirations form and document the relation between early aspirations and educational attainment at the age of 15 and 19. We find that aspirations are predictive of the number of year of schooling completed upon controlling for cognitive and non-cognitive skills together with a broad set of individuals and household-level characteristics. Interestingly, this correlation is stronger for boys than for girls.

Do Dreams Come True? Aspirations and Educational Attainments of Ethiopian Boys and Girls

We use unique individual-level panel data from Ethiopia to investigate the role of aspirations for human-capital investments. More specifically, we investigate how parental and children's aspirations form and document the relation between early aspirations and educational attainment at the age of 15 and 19. We find that aspirations are predictive of the number of year of schooling completed upon controlling for cognitive and non-cognitive skills together with a broad set of individuals and household-level characteristics. Interestingly, this correlation is stronger for boys than for girls.

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Young Lives at UKFIET 2017
Young Lives at UKFIET 2017
Poverty, maternal well-being and the effects on children
Poverty, maternal well-being and the effects on children

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Measuring learning quality in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam: from primary to secondary school effectiveness

This paper examines the way in which learning quality has been conceptualised and measured in school effectiveness surveys conducted by Young Lives. Primary school surveys were conducted in Vietnam in 2010–11 and Ethiopia in 2012–13, and surveys at upper-primary and secondary level were conducted in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam in 2016–17. The paper discusses the design of cognitive tests to assess Maths and reading at primary level, and then focuses on the development of cognitive tests to assess Maths, functional English and transferable skills at upper-primary and secondary level.

Measuring learning quality in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam: from primary to secondary school effectiveness

This paper examines the way in which learning quality has been conceptualised and measured in school effectiveness surveys conducted by Young Lives. Primary school surveys were conducted in Vietnam in 2010–11 and Ethiopia in 2012–13, and surveys at upper-primary and secondary level were conducted in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam in 2016–17. The paper discusses the design of cognitive tests to assess Maths and reading at primary level, and then focuses on the development of cognitive tests to assess Maths, functional English and transferable skills at upper-primary and secondary level.

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School effectiveness in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam: Launch of Key findings from the 2016-17 Young Lives School Survey
School effectiveness in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam: Launch of Key findings from the 2016-17 Young Lives School Survey

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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

A Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper (No. 1058) based on Young Lives Data

Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

A Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper (No. 1058) based on Young Lives Data

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