Working paper
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Life-Course Shocks and Food Insecurity: Longitudinal Evidence from Ethiopia, India, and Peru
This study investigates the relationship between life-cycle exposure to socioeconomic shocks and subsequent food insecurity in young adult households. Using two decades of longitudinal data (2002-2023) from the Young Lives study in Ethiopia, India, and Peru, we analyse how the timing of shocks influences current household food security. Our findings consistently demonstrate a significant association […]
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Edutainment, Savings and Empowerment in Rural Areas of Peru
This paper presents the results of a randomized five-episode soap opera that promotes prosavings attitudes, trust in financial institutions and female empowerment among women from poor, rural areas of the Peruvian highlands. Using administrative bank data, the results show a significant increase in savings balances 1.5 and 2 years after the intervention concluded, as well […]
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Gender Gaps in the Performance of Small Firms: Evidence from Urban Peru
Este documento estima la brecha de género en el rendimiento de las empresas en Perú utilizando datos representativos tanto de empresas formales como informales. En promedio, las empresas informales dirigidas por mujeres tienen menores ventas, productividad laboral y beneficios en comparación con sus homólogas dirigidas por hombres, con diferencias más pronunciadas cuando se controlan los […]
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Young People’s Mental Health in Unprecedented Times: Research Report from Round 7 in Ethiopia, India and Peru
This report presents preliminary findings on young people’s mental health from the seventh round of the Young Lives survey conducted in Ethiopia, India and Peru in 2023–24, when the Younger Cohort was aged 22 and the Older Cohort was aged 29. According to Round 7 data, in India and Peru, levels of anxiety and depression […]
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Young Lives attrition report: Round 7
Over more than 20 years, Young Lives has followed two cohorts born seven years apart (Favara et al. 2021). This technical note documents the attrition rates from the seventh round of the Young Lives survey carried out in Ethiopia, India (the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) and Peru in 2023–24, when the Younger Cohort […]
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Panorama de los programas de visitas domiciliarias en América Latina y el Caribe
The Inter-American Dialogue and UNICEF present this study as a contribution to strengthening the early childhood care and development agenda in the region. Through a cross-sectional analysis and comparison of the design and implementation of home visiting programmes in ten countries in the region, the study seeks to provide a characterisation of these programmes, highlighting […]
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Laptops in the long-run: evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in rural Peru
This paper examines a large-scale randomized evaluation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in 531 rural primary schools, as implemented by the Peruvian government starting in 2009. We use administrative and survey data on academic achievement and grade progression through 2019 to estimate the long-run effects of educational technology on i) academic performance […]
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The effects of the covid-19 pandemic on the subjective well-being of rural and urban young people in Peru
This report is a summary of a longer report published in Spanish and available on the Niños del Milenio website here. Niños del Milenio/Young Lives has followed children through to young adulthood in Peru, including understanding how their perceptions of their well-being have changed over time. Using qualitative data from 2 birth cohorts, aged 21- 22 […]
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CLARISSA Cash Plus Social Protection Intervention: an evaluation
This paper presents the results of the multi-method evaluation of the CLARISSA Cash Plus pilot, which was an innovative social protection scheme for tackling social ills, including the worst forms of child labour. A universal and unconditional ‘cash plus’ programme, it combined community mobilisation, case work, and cash transfers, and was implemented across a high-density, […]
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¿A costa de qué?: el estado de emergencia en el Callao y su impacto de corto y largo plazo sobre la seguridad ciudadana, la violencia familiar y el bienestar social
In Peru, the declaration of a state of emergency (EE) has become a common and widely requested public policy measure to address the crime problem. Recently, the government declared the EE in several districts, including San Juan de Lurigancho and San Martin de Porres in Lima, and Sullana in Piura (DS 105-2023-PCM) (El Comercio, 25/9/2023), […]
