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    • Education Trajectories in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam : From Early Childhood to Early Adulthood 

      Cueto, Santiago; Singh, Renu; Woldehanna, Tassew; Thuc Duc, Le; Miranda, Alejandra; Young Lives (Young Lives, 2016-12)
      In this policy brief, the authors describe the educational trajectories of 12,000 children in total, across two cohorts: the Younger Cohort born around 1994 and the Older Cohort born around 2001, in Ethiopia, India, Peru ...
    • Exploring the effect of educational opportunity and inequality on learning outcomes in Ethiopia, Peru, India, and Vietnam 

      Rolleston, Caine; James, Zoe; Aurino, Elisabetta (UNESCO, 2013)
      The provision of access to good quality education for all requires not only improvements in access and quality, but improvements in the way access and quality are distributed between more and less advantaged groups. ...
    • From Infancy to Adolescence : Growing Up in Poverty 

      Dornan, Paul; Pells, Kirrily (Young Lives, 2014-12)
      The analysis takes account of initial household circumstances and characteristics (such as being in the poorest or least-poor tercile in terms of household wealth) recorded in the first survey round, when Younger Cohort ...
    • Gendered Trajectories Through Education, Work and Parenthood in Peru 

      Rojas, Vanessa; Guerrero, Gabriela; Vargas, Jimena (Young Lives, 2016-08)
      This paper explores young people’s inter-related transitions and pathways through schooling, work and parenthood, with a special focus on the way gender affects trajectories into adulthood among a sample of young people ...
    • Identificación de predictores del desempeño en la comprensión de textos orales y escritos 

      Junyent Moreno, Andrea Anahí; CIES. Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social; FORGE. Proyecto Fortalecimiento de la Gestión de la Educación en el Perú; GRADE. Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social, 2015-09)
      Este estudio buscó identificar los predictores de la comprensión lectora para promover políticas públicas a favor de intervenciones tempranas, utilizando la base de datos Niños del Milenio. Se evaluaron las relaciones entre ...
    • Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality : Young Lives 

      Behrman, Jere R.; Schott, Whitney; Mani, Subha; Crookston, Benjamin T.; Dearden, Kirk; Duc, Le Thuc; Fernald, Lia C.H.; Stein, Aryed H. (Young Lives, 2013-12)
      There is considerable emphasis in academic and policy literatures on intergenerational transmissions of poverty and inequality. The perception is that improving schooling attainment and income/consumption for parents in ...
    • Juventud y desarrollo : resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Cuarta ronda de encuestas en el Perú 

      Sánchez, Alan; Meléndez, Guido (GRADE, Niños del Milenio, 2015-03)
      Los adultos jóvenes de la cohorte mayor, a la edad 19 años, han alcanzado una etapa de la vida en la que hacen frente a opciones y decisiones críticas. Una gran parte de ellos ya había terminado la escuela, y muchos están ...
    • Longevity and lifetime education : global evidence from 919 surveys 

      Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, Claudio E.; Orazem, Peter F. (World Bank, 2017-08)
      Data from 919 household surveys conducted between 1960 and 2012, spanning 147 economies, are used to evaluate the relationship between rising life expectancy at birth and lifetime years of schooling for successive birth ...
    • Millennials en América Latina y el Caribe : ¿trabajar o estudiar? 

      Novella, Rafael, ed.; Repetto, Andrea, ed.; Robino, Carolina, ed.; Rucci, Graciana, ed.; Silva, Enid Rocha Andrade da; Silva, Claudia Jakelline Barbosa e; Costa, Joana Simões de Melo; Contreras, María Ignacia; Novella, Rafael; Nun, Eleonora; Repetto, Andrea; Bernal, Raquel; Pulido, Xiomara; Sánchez, Fabio; Sánchez Ayala, Lina María; Beneke de Sanfeliú, Margarita; Calderón, Lissette; Chávez Claros, Mario; Hazan, Maud; Zanuso, Claire; Arceo Gómez, Eva O.; Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Espinosa, Rocío; Fonseca, Claudia; Vélez Grajales, Roberto; Borda, Dionisio; González, Cynthia; Favara, Marta; Sánchez, Alan; Leites, Martín; Rivero, Laura; Salas, Gonzalo; Suárez, Lucía; Vigorito, Andrea (BID, 2018)
      Presenta los principales resultados de un proyecto regional que contó con la participación de más de 15.000 jóvenes de entre 15 y 24 años en nueve países (Brasil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Haití, México, Paraguay, Perú ...
    • Non-Cognitive Deficits and Young Adult Outcomes : The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program 

      Baker, Michael; Gruber, Jonathan; Milligan, Kevin (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015-09)
      Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long-run benefits. We test the symmetry of this contention by studying the effects of a sizeable negative shock ...
    • Nutrición y desarrollo : resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Cuarta ronda de encuestas en el Perú 

      Penny, Mary; Meléndez, Guido (GRADE, Niños del Milenio, 2015-03)
      El estudio Niños de Milenio proporciona una excelente oportunidad de hacer seguimiento a la nutrición y el crecimiento de dos cohortes de niños peruanos desde la primera infancia hasta la niñez, y de la niñez a la edad ...
    • Palo y zanahoria : la administración como fuente de efectividad en la escuela 

      Rivera, Jairo (Young Lives, 2014-08)
      Analiza la importancia del director en la efectividad de la escuela, y tiene como objetivo contribuir a la creciente literatura en esta área. La investigación se centra en un país en desarrollo y utiliza datos extraídos ...
    • Psychometric characteristics of cognitive development and achievement instruments in Round 2 of Young Lives 

      Cueto, Santiago; León, Juan; Guerrero, Gabriela; Muñoz, Ismael (Young Lives, 2009-01)
      In 2006, pilots of several cognitive development and achievement tests were carried out in each country prior to Round 2 of Young Lives (YL). As a result of these, it was decided to administer the following tests to the ...
    • Psychosocial competencies and risky behaviours in Peru 

      Favara, Marta; Sanchez, Alan (Springer Open, 2017)
      The authors use a unique longitudinal dataset from Peru to investigate the relationship between psychosocial competencies related to the concepts of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and aspirations, and a number of risky ...
    • ¿Qué hemos aprendido del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio en el Perú? : síntesis de hallazgos 

      Cueto, Santiago; Escobal, Javier; Felipe, Claudia; Pazos, Nicolás; Penny, Mary E.; Rojas, Vanessa; Sánchez, Alan; Young Lives (Young Lives, 2018-06)
      Desde el 2001, Niños del Milenio se caracterizó por ser un estudio ambicioso. Fue diseñado para entender de qué manera la pobreza infantil se asociaba o tenía impacto en el desarrollo de alrededor de 12 000 niños y niñas ...
    • Starting Together, Growing Apart : Gender Gaps in Learning From Preschool to Adulthood in Four Developing Countries 

      Singh, Abhijeet; Krutikova, Sofya (Young Lives, 2017)
      This working paper studies the evolution of gender gaps in multiple cognitive skills from the ages of 5 to 19 years old, using Young Lives unique panel data from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam; it is the most extensive ...
    • The effect of varying population estimates on the calculation of enrolment rates and out-of-school rates 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2016-10)
      Enrolment rates are calculated by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) from a combination of i) enrolment figures provided by Member States; and ii) population estimates from the UN Population Division. Using different ...
    • The impact of intimate partner violence on child development in Peru 

      Bedoya, Mariel; Espinoza, Karen; Sánchez, Alan (GRADE, 2018)
      The researchers used longitudinal data from a cohort of Peruvian children (n=1,720) tracked starting at the age of 1 year old to test the association between alcohol-induced physical IPV (intimate partner violence) against ...
    • Tracking the Children of the Millennium : Insights from a longitudinal cohort study 

      Banati, Prerna; Dornan, Paul; Knowles, Caroline (UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2015)
      Longitudinal research can help countries meet the challenges of sustainable development. The examples presented in this Brief serve to demonstrate the unique advantages of having access to longitudinal studies to complement ...
    • Transferencias y condiciones : efectos no previstos del Programa Juntos 

      Escobal, Javier; Benites, Sara (Niños del Milenio, 2012-10)
      La investigación cuantitativa y cualitativa realizada en el marco del estudio internacional Niños del Milenio da cuenta de estos y otros elementos que deberían ser tomados en cuenta. Niños del Milenio sigue a dos grupos ...