Publications of Infancia, transiciones y bienestar en el Perú: una revisión bibliográfica
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Infancia, transiciones y bienestar en el Perú: una revisión bibliográfica
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Continuity and respect for diversity: strengthening early transitions in Peru
This working paper is part of a series on early transitions from Young Lives, a 15-year longitudinal study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. It explores the diverse experiences of 28 children from four contrasting communities in Peru as they start school. These detailed case studies highlight common problems: exclusion of certain […]
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¿Educación para el desarrollo rural o para dejar de ser rural?: percepciones y proyectos de pobladores rurales andinos y amazónicos
The research on which this article is based is the product of a broader qualitative study of the Young Lives project, which mainly addresses the issue of educational transitions to secondary school in four communities: two in urban areas and two in rural areas. for this research, the basic methodology used was the case study of children […]
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Psychosocial status and cognitive achievement in Peru
This paper 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.
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Early nutrition and later cognitive achievement in developing countries
This study uses longitudinal data from 8,000 children in four developing countries (Young Lives Survey) to explore the linkages between nutritional status and later cognitive achievement on preschool children.
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Transitory shocks and long-term human capital accumulation: the impact of conflict on physical health in Peru
The recent literature on human capital highlights the importance of investments during the first few years after birth as a determinant of economic outcomes later in life, including labour productivity. This paper assesses the relationship between conflict exposure –a transitory, aggregate, shock– and early nutrition. The relationship between conflict exposure and human capital outcomes can […]
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Evolution of Gender Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to “New Century, Old Disparities”
The paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2009) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During this span the overall gender earnings gaps dropped about 7 percentage points, while the unexplained […]
