Publications of Health and nutrition
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The evolution of young people’s mental health during COVID-19: Evidence from four low-and-middle-income-countries
Aunque COVID-19 presenta menos riesgo de morbilidad o mortalidad grave para los jóvenes, la crisis económica resultante ha afectado sus medios de subsistencia. Hay relativamente poca evidencia sobre la salud mental de los jóvenes en los países de ingresos bajos y medios (LMIC) a medida que avanza la pandemia. Dos encuestas telefónicas consecutivas (agosto/octubre y […]
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Estrategias de cuidado infantil en familias vulnerables peruanas: Evidencia del estudio cualitativo longitudinal Niños del Milenio.
The document addresses what families face in situations of changes that impact and weaken their economy, the care of children is in second place, which affects their wellbeing. The voices of the children themselves identify the need for care networks beyond the family environment; the urgency of promoting public policies regarding the reconciliation of work […]
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on anxiety and depression symptoms of young people in the global south: Evidence from a four-country cohort study
A phone survey administered between August and October 2020 to participants of a population-based longitudinal cohort study established in 2002 comprising two cohorts born in 1994–1995 and 2001–2002 in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru and Vietnam. We use logistic regressions to examine associations between mental health and pandemic-related stressors, structural factors (gender, age), […]
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Políticas para combatir la pandemia de COVID-19
This paper addresses the particular circumstances of the policies used in the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic. An analysis is made of the implementation of an appropriate epidemiological surveillance policy, with adequate diagnostic testing; contact tracing; and the use of effective isolation protocols. This same document proposes five areas for improvement and changes in the […]
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Young lives, interrupted: Short‑term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in low- and middleincome countries
This study contributes to the understanding of how severely a cohort of adolescents have been impacted by the crisis, using comparable longitudinal data from four Low- and Middle- Income countries (LMICs) that have been very differently affected by the health crisis: Ethiopia, India (states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru and Vietnam. In particular, Peru […]
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COVID-19 Could Reverse Two Decades of Progress: Emerging Policy Recommendations to Support Young People in Developing Countries
New research from the Young Lives COVID-19 phone survey in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam paints a worrying picture of how the economic and social impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and related restrictions could not only halt progress made over the last two generations, but could also reverse life chances and entrench existing inequalities for many […]
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Entendiendo la paradoja de la maternidad adolescente en Lima Metropolitana: Un análisis de los efectos de vecindario en el 2013
During the last 35 years, teenage childbearing rate in Metropolitan Lima has not decreased, despite the fact that the capital city has greater access to public services and better economic opportunities than other regions of Peru. In this paper, this apparent paradox is analyzed based on an exploratory analysis of neighborhood effects for 2013. Specifically, through […]
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A Drop of Love? Rainfall Shocks and Spousal Abuse: Evidence from Rural Peru
The authors investigate whether the exposure to rainfall shocks affects the experience of physical intimate partner violence by women in rural areas of the Peruvian Andes. Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys over the period 2005-2014, they track changes in women’s experience of physical IPV following the exposure to rainfall shocks during the […]
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Impact of Juntos Conditional Cash Transfer Program on nutritional and cognitive outcomes in Peru: Comparison between younger and older initial exposure
We evaluate whether the Juntos conditional cash transfer program in Peru has a larger effect on children who benefited initially from the program during the first 4 years of life compared with those children who benefited initially between ages 5 and 8. The former group was exposed during early-life sensitive periods, received the program for […]
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(Un)Conditional Love in the Time of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Effect of the Peruvian JUNTOS Program on Spousal Abuse
Cash Transfer programs often target women as the recipient of the money. Unintentionally, this flow of unearned income may reduce spousal abuse. Researchers investigate this possibility by assessing the Peruvian JUNTOS program. They exploit the staggered timing in the rollout of the program across municipalities along with its eligibility rule for determining participation to perform a difference-in-differences […]
