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  1. Understanding Child Marriage: Insights from Comparative Research
    This is the first policy brief produced by the Young Marriage and Parenthood Study (YMAPS), looking at research findings from Young Lives (Ethiopia, Peru, Vietnam and the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) and Child Frontiers (Zambia). The …
  2. Reinforcement or Compensation? Parental Responses to Children’s Revealed Human Capital Levels in Ethiopia
    There is an increasing body of literature that finds that parents invest in their children unequally, but the evidence is contradictory, and few studies provide convincing causal evidence of the effect of child ability on parental investment in a …
  3. The impact of child work on cognitive development: results from four Low to Middle Income countries
    The authors study the relationship between child work and cognitive development in the four Young Lives countries. They address a key weakness in the literature by including children’s full time-use vector in the analysis, which leads to different …
  4. New summative report: Delivering on every child's right to basic skills
    This report synthesises Young Lives research into the role of education in the lives of children growing up in diverse contexts and draws on evidence about the effectiveness of school systems in delivering positive outcomes for all children and combatting …
  5. SUMMARY Delivering on every child’s right to basic skills
    This document is a summary of the Young Lives Delivering on every child’s right to basic skills report, ndia Country Report by Jack Rossiter, Martin Woodhead, Caine Rolleston and Rhiannon Moore. The full report is available  here , detailing …
  6. Using Scale-Anchoring to Interpret the Young Lives 2016-17 Achievement Scale
    An important dimension of the Young Lives school surveys in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam has been the inclusion of assessments in selected cognitive domains. In the 2016-17 secondary school survey, assessments of mathematics and English were …
  7. ‘Functional English’ Skills in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam: Comparing English Ability and Use Among 15 Year Olds in Three Countries
    Increased globalisation, interconnectivity and overall exposure have promoted a considerable increase in developing countries in usage and aspiration to learn the English language. Among policymakers and individuals, English is considered important for …
  8. Learning Motivations, Learning Outcomes and Gender in Vietnam
    This working paper uses the 2016-17 Young Lives school survey data in Vietnam to examine learning outcomes and learning motivations for boys and girls in Grade 10. It examines how differences in learning motivations impact on learning outcomes and future …