Organisation
Young Lives
International research project investigating the changing nature of child poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
Young Lives is an innovative long-term international research project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty. The project seeks to:
- improve understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty and to examine how policies affect children’s well-being
- inform the development and implementation of future policies and practices that will reduce childhood poverty
- 2000 children in each country who were aged between 6 months and 17 months in 2002
- 1000 children in each country aged between 7.5 years old and 8.5 years old in 2002.
Published Documents
- Prioritising nutrition in order to achieve the MDGs in India
- V. Kumar / Young Lives, 2012
- Malnutrition causes long-term damage to children’s development, with huge social and economic costs. It affects not only children’s physical development but also their cognitive development, so reducing future productivity...
- What issues drive female child marriage and circumcision in Ethiopia?
- J. Boyden; A. Pankhurst; Y. Tafere / Young Lives, 2013
- Focusing on Ethiopia, this paper explores local perspectives on female child marriage and circumcision. Both practices are widespread in Ethiopia and reflect deep-rooted patriarchal and gerontocratic values regulating women’s re...
- Children afflicted by poverty can be agents of its alleviation - evidence from Ethiopia
- Y. Tafere / Young Lives, 2012
- Children can be more than just victims of poverty; they can be agents of its alleviation. This paper presents Ethiopian children’s and young people’s perceptions of poverty based on their own experiences. The p...
- Dignity is part of the empowerment framework to escape childhood poverty
- U. Vennam; J. Andharia / Young Lives, 2012
- In recent years there has been growing interest in researching the dynamics of poverty, including the poverty mobility of households and communities. This paper is a part of a longitudinal study that seeks to improve understanding of ...
- Can early childhood care and education be provided in Ethiopia at existing government primary schools?
- K. Brock / Young Lives, 2012
- It is deemed that targeted early childhood interventions have the potential to mitigate some of the risks to children’s learning and development posed by poverty. This policy brief draws on a study conducted in Ethiopia to illus...
- Decisive strategies towards fair schooling are required in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
- H. Murray / Young Lives, 2012
- Millions of poor children and families are investing scarce resources in going to school, in the hope that it will lead to a better life. This paper looks at children’s unequal trajectories from early childhood through to the ti...
- Is School Education Breaking the Cycle of Poverty for Children: Factors Shaping Education Inequalities in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
- H. Murray / Young Lives, 2012
- School education is held up as an ‘escape route from poverty’. Millions of poor children and families are buying into this promise and often investing scarce resources in going to school, in the hope that it will lead to a b...
- What Shapes the Influence Evidence Has on Policy?: The Role of Politics in Research Utilisation
- C. Porter / Young Lives, 2010
- What shapes the influence evidence has on policy? The key lesson that emerges from this paper is the primacy of politics in shaping how evidence is used. In order to influence the policy process, the research community must understand...
- Change and Opportunity: The Transition from Primary to Secondary School in Rural and Urban Peru
- P. Ames / Young Lives, 2010
- This paper reports the expectations, concerns and experiences of Peruvian children (aged 11-13 years) from four contrasting districts during their transition from primary to secondary school. Qualitative methods were used to elicit th...
- Inequalities, Life Chances and Gender
- K. Pells / Young Lives, 2010
- This paper is one of two preliminary first findings reports that make use of early data from the third round of the Young Lives survey in 2009 to explore the extent to which inequalities including poverty, location (rural or urban), e...
