Niños del Milenio
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Medición de la prevalencia de la violencia física y psicológica hacia niños, niñas y adolescentes: evidencia de Niños del Milenio
El objetivo de este estudio es generar y difundir nueva evidencia sobre (i) la prevalencia de la violencia física y psicológica hacia niños, niñas y adolescentes en Perú; (ii) los factores de ciclo de vida asociados a estas prevalencias.
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La influencia de las funciones ejecutivas en la salud mental de adolescentes vulnerables: un enfoque multi-sitio y de países de ingreso bajo y medio
Las funciones ejecutivas (memoria de corto plazo, flexibilidad cognitiva, atención selectiva, inhibición) son críticas para el funcionamiento emocional, cognitivo y social y para las relaciones interpersonales. Problemas en las funciones ejecutivas están fuertemente asociados a problemas de salud mental en países de ingreso alto. Sin embargo, hay poca evidencia de este tipo de relación en […]
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No longer children: What do Young Lives children do when they grow up?
No longer children: What do Young Lives children do when they grow up? is a Young Lives research report, synthesising research from the past two survey rounds (in 2013 and 2016) to reflect on how the experience of poverty early in life affects future opportunities, documenting children and young people’s trajectories from school into post-secondary […]
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Psychosocial status and cognitive achievement in Peru
This paper assesses the importance of psychosocial status in the accumulation of cognitive skills during the transition from mid to late childhood. The authors use longitudinal data from a cohort of 700 Peruvian children drawn from a very rich dataset, the Young Lives Survey, to test the impact of children’s perception of respect at the age of […]
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Accessing Higher Education in Developing Countries: Panel Data Analysis from India, Peru, and Vietnam
Researchers use unique individual-level panel data from India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru, and Vietnam on a cohort of individuals surveyed from the age of 8 years to 19 years to study factors affecting enrolment in higher education in these middle-income countries. We document (a) that similar to nationally representative data, the proportion having accessed higher education at this […]
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Maternal group participation and child nutritional status in Peru
Using data from the Peruvian sample of the Young Lives study, this paper investigates the association between maternal group participation and child nutritional status at the ages of 1 and 5 years. This study finds that the relationship between child nutrition and maternal group participation depends on the level of maternal education. In fact, maternal […]
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Do Dreams Come True? Aspirations and Educational Attainments of Ethiopian Boys and Girls
Authors use unique individual-level panel data from Ethiopia to investigate the role of aspirations for human-capital investments. More specifically, they investigate how parental and children’s aspirations form and document the relation between early aspirations and educational attainment at the age of 15 and 19. Researchers find that aspirations are predictive of the number of year of […]
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Does Visual Acuity Have an Effect on Children’s Educational Achievement?
Inequity is an important issue for many international initiatives, including the current Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One aspect of inequity that has received little attention is the impact of disability on education. This working paper explores whether mild or moderate levels of visual impairment are associated with educational performance for 7 and 8-year-old children in […]
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El género y las trayectorias hacia la adultez en el Perú: educación, trabajo y maternidad/paternidad
En este documento examinamos cómo el género afecta las trayectorias educativas, laborales y de maternidad/ paternidad de una muestra de jóvenes que crecen en situación de pobreza en el Perú. Reportamos los resultados y las trayectorias de 26 miembros de la cohorte mayor que participaron en la investigación cualitativa del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio […]
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Equating test scores for receptive vocabulary across rounds and cohorts in Ethiopia, India & Vietnam
In longitudinal studies such as Young Lives, getting comparable measures of children´s cognitive abilities over time is essential for identifying individual, household, and school-level factors that affect children´s development. Few longitudinal studies that follow birth/age cohorts include comparable cognitive measures across waves, and those studies that are available are mainly from developed countries. Young Lives […]
