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Friday, 28 de February de 2025Young 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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Wednesday, 22 de January de 2025
A new approach to children’s work that prioritises resilience, well-being and agency: emerging findings from a ‘cash plus’ intervention in Bangladesh
Background: Criticism of mainstream approaches to child labour is widespread and well-established. The Child Labour Action Research in South and Southeast Asia (CLARISSA) Cash Plus pilot sought to address these critiques through an innovative programme that prioritised the development of household resilience and well-being, and through increasing household capacity to make alternative choices around children’s work. […]
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Tuesday, 3 de December de 2024
GRADE researchers join the XXXV Annual CIES 2024 Research Seminar
Del 11 al 13 de diciembre, investigadoras e investigadores de GRADE serán expositores, comentaristas y moderadores en el XXXV Seminario Anual de Investigación CIES 2024. El evento, organizado por el Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES) de manera híbrida, abordará el tema “Retos y perspectivas del Perú y América Latina: inversión, sostenibilidad y cohesión social”. A continuación, […]
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Tuesday, 22 de October de 2024
Maria Balarin and Miguel Jaramillo to be panelists at the launch of NORRAG Special Issue 08
María Balarin and Miguel Jaramillo will be panelists at the launch of the eighth edition of NORRAG Special Issue. This issue will address the current discontinuities between education, training and decent work and how these create and reinforce inequalities for already marginalized groups. Our senior researchers have authored an article that summarizes recent evidence on the trajectories of youth from disvantaged […]
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Tuesday, 17 de September de 2024
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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Monday, 16 de September de 2024
Multidimensional poverty: more important than the label is the content, by Javier Herrera and Javier Escobal
“The indicator that Midis would adopt combines only indicators that can be collected in the same survey, ignoring key elements like those related to malnutrition and anemia, indicators of quality of education and quality of access to public services, as well as indicators linked to violence and citizen security”. Javier Herrera, Visiting Professor at PUCP, and Javier […]
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Wednesday, 4 de September de 2024
Analysis of changes in family structures and arrangements in households with children and adolescents in Ecuador
The study aims to describe and analyze the change in family structures and arrangements in households with children and adolescents in Ecuador in the period between 1990 and 2022; to guide programmes and actions related to social policy, especially to ensure the well-being and protection of households with children and adolescents. Databases from the 1990, 2001, […]
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Monday, 17 de June de 2024
Long-term effects of early life rainfall shocks on foundational cognitive skills: Evidence from Peru
Global warming is changing precipitation patterns, particularly harming communities in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Whilst the long-term effects of being exposed to rainfall shocks early in life on school-achievement tests are well-established, there is little population-based evidence from LMICs on the mechanisms through which these shocks operate. Executive functions (EFs) are key for children’s learning […]
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Monday, 1 de April de 2024
Young Lives Peru round seven: data cleaning, analysis and research
The Young Lives Peru study follows the development of about 2750 children born in Peru around 1994 (older cohort) and 2001 (younger cohort). The study is being conducted simultaneously in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam, in addition to Peru, under the technical coordination of the University of Oxford. Having completed round seven of the surveys, the […]
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Thursday, 18 de January de 2024
[Call] 2024 Methodological Workshop on the use of data from the Young Lives Longitudinal Study
El taller anual de Niños del Milenio busca brindar las herramientas necesarias para que profesionales, que estén cursando sus maestrías o doctorados, aprendan a usar, descargar y analizar los datos que recolecta el estudio. El principal objetivo es aumentar el interés en la producción de trabajos de investigación con aquellos que desean utilizar los datos de […]
