Young Lives
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The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on physical domestic violence: Evidence from a list randomization experiment
El estudio cuantifica el aumento de la violencia física doméstica (violencia familiar o de pareja) que experimentan los jóvenes de 18 a 26 años durante los encierros de COVID-19 en el Perú. Para ello utiliza una metodología indirecta el experimento de aleatorización de doble lista. El experimento de la lista se incluyó en una encuesta […]
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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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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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Acceso a dispositivos y habilidades digitales de dos cohortes en el Perú
The technical note on which this policy brief is based details the construction of two indicators: basic computer skills and basic internet skills. This document also explores the determinants of access and digital skills in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. However, this publication focuses on the findings for Peru.
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Predictores de la deserción escolar en el Perú
The paper on which this policy brief is based analyzes what factors are associated with dropping out of school in the four countries covered by the Young Lives longitudinal study: Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. For this, personal, family and educational factors are considered. This policy brief focuses on the findings of Peru.
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Predictors of school dropout across Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
In this paper the authors utilize the five rounds of Young Lives household surveys across four countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam) to study the characteristics of children who had dropped out of school by 22 years of age. While most children in the longitudinal sample go to primary school, they tend to drop out […]
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Breaking the Silence. Why do Young Women in Peru Marry or Cohabit at a Young Age, and What are the Consequences?
On the basis of qualitative data, the chapter shows how different factors lead young women to start cohabitation or marriage before adulthood. Through the experiences of three women who began cohabitation before the age of 18 in Peru, the authors show what life is like for them, the inequities in the power relations they face […]
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Equating Cognitive Scores across Rounds and Cohorts for Young Lives in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
For longitudinal studies such as Young Lives, getting comparable measures of children ́s cognitive abilities over time is essential for identifying individual, family, school or contextual variables that affect children ́s development. Few longitudinal studies that follow birth/age cohorts have comparable cognitive measures over time; of those that are available, most are from developed countries […]
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Understanding teenage fertility in Peru: An analysis using longitudinal data
Reducing the prevalence of teenage pregnancy remains an elusive goal for public policy in Peru. Researchers use longitudinal data from the Young Lives Study in Peru to investigate on an extensive set of early circumstances and life changes that might be the risk factors for teenage childbearing—about one out of five girls in the sample […]
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Experiencias de convivencia, matrimonio y maternidad/paternidad en adolescentes y jóvenes peruanos. Policy brief
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