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  1. IMPACT CASE STUDY How poverty and gender combine to affect youth and adolescence
    This impact case study describes what Young Lives research shows about how poverty and gender combine to affect youth and adolescence. For related impact stories, please follow us on Twitter  @yloxford . In overview: Young people now make up a quarter of …
  2. IMPACT CASE STUDY School effectiveness and its impact on poor children
    This impact case study describes what Young Lives research shows on school effectiveness and its impact on poor children. For related impact stories, please follow us on Twitter  @yloxford . In overview: With most children in the world now having access …
  3. "Food prices were high, and the dal became watery". Mixed-method evidence on household food insecurity and children's diets in India
    Food insecurity and malnutrition are key policy priorities in India. Evidence on children’s experiences of household food insecurity and how food insecurity influences their dietary quality is limited for India and other low- and middle-income countries. …
  4. Predictors of Mathematics and Literacy Skills at 15 years old in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
    This working paper reports on longitudinal analyses of predictors of growth in receptive vocabulary and mathematics abilities by age 15 conducted using data from the Younger Cohort in the four Young Lives countries. Theoretical models of plausible …
  5. VIETNAMESE Leaving no one behind in a growing Vietnam
    This is the Vietnamese language version of the Young Lives Vietnam Country Report. It presents results from our fifteen-year longitudinal study, which followed two cohorts of children in various situations from remote rural and mountainous sites to urban …
  6. India Child Marriage and Teenage Pregnancy Based on NFHS 4 (2015-16)
    According to the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006, any girl married below 18 years of age and any boy married before 21 years, is considered a “child marriage”, which is a cognizable offence. While child marriage has long term negative consequences …
  7. Estimating the education production function for cognitive and non-cognitive development of children in Vietnam through structural equation modelling using Young Lives data base
    This paper uses data from Young Lives. The author's abstract reads: This paper attempts to shed light on the education process of cognitive and non-cognitive skills by using cross-sectional empirical data from Vietnam. Given the evidence of the benefits …
  8. Beyond the basics: Access and equity in the expansion of post-compulsory schooling in Vietnam
    A journal article titled Beyond the basics: Access and equity in the expansion of post-compulsory schooling in Vietnam by Caine Rolleston and Padmini Iyer has been made available online (In Press) in International Journal of Educational Development. …