Browsing by Subject "Etiopía"
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An Assessment of the Young Lives Sampling Approach in Peru
(Young Lives, 2008-03)Young Lives is a longitudinal research project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty. The study is tracking the development of 12,000 children in Ethiopia, Peru, India (Andhra Pradesh) and Vietnam through ... -
Can maternal education hinder, sustain or enhance the benefits of early life interventions? Evidence from the Young Lives Longitudinal Study?
(UNESCO, 2013)The document focuses on the complementarities that education can bring to the multiple and sometimes interrelated interventions, from government and other national and international organisations, in the context of ... -
Corporal Punishment in Schools : Longitudinal Evidence from Ethiopia, India Peru and Viet Nam
(UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2015)Globally the use of corporal punishment in schools is increasingly prohibited in law, yet in many contexts its use continues, even where outlawed. Proponents argue that it is an effective and non-harmful means of instilling ... -
Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Household Food Security and Child Anthropometry at Ages 5 and 8 Years in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam
(American Society for Nutrition, 2015)Background: Poor childhood nutritional status has lifetime effects and food insecurity is associated with dietary practices that can impair nutritional status. Objectives: We assessed concurrent and subsequent associations ... -
Digital Access, Use and Skills Across Four Countries : Construction of Scales and Preliminary Results from the Young Lives Round 5 Survey
(Young Lives, 2018-06)This technical note outlines the procedures used to develop a digital module, administered to both Young Lives cohorts in the four study countries during the Round 5 household survey in 2016. The modules were based on ... -
Do Education and Health Conditions Matter in a Large Cash Transfer? Evidence from a Honduran Experiment
(Young Lives, 2008-03)Young Lives is a longitudinal research project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty. The study is tracking the development of 12,000 children in Ethiopia, Peru, India (Andhra Pradesh) and Vietnam through ... -
Does household access to improved water and sanitation in infancy and childhood predict better vocabulary test performance in Ethiopian, Indian, Peruvian and Vietnamese cohort studies?
(BMJ, 2017)Objective: Test associations between household water and sanitation (W&S) and children's concurrent and subsequent Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) scores. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting Ethiopia, India, ... -
Education Trajectories in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam : From Early Childhood to Early Adulthood
(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 ... -
Experiences of Peer Bullying Among Adolescents and Associated Effects on Young and Associated Effects on Young Adult Outcomes : Longitudinal Evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
(UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2016)Being bullied has been found to have a significant impact on children’s physical and mental health, psychosocial well-being and educational performance, with lasting effects into adulthood on health, well-being and lifetime ... -
Exploring the effect of educational opportunity and inequality on learning outcomes in Ethiopia, Peru, India, and Vietnam
(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
(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 ... -
Intercontinental Evidence on Socioeconomic Status and Early Childhood : Cognitive Skills: Is Latin America Different?
(BID, 2013-08)This paper documents disparities in cognitive development— as measured by a receptive vocabulary test—between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before ... -
Narrowing the Gender Gap : Empowering Women through Literacy Programmes. Case studies from the UNESCO Effective Literacy and Numeracy Practices Database (LitBase)
(UNESCO, 2015)The examples included in this compilation reflect how literacy learning can support the empowerment of women, families, communities, and ultimately entire societies. They further demonstrate how women can overcome barriers ... -
Starting Together, Growing Apart : Gender Gaps in Learning From Preschool to Adulthood in Four Developing Countries
(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 Sooner The Better But It’s Never Too Late : The Impact of Nutrition at Different Periods of Childhood on Cognitive Development
(Young Lives, 2017-01)Although it has been argued that undernutrition and its consequences for child development are irreversible after the age of 2, the evidence in support of these hypotheses is inconclusive. This working paper investigates ...