This paper evaluates the academic impact of a growth-mindset intervention on students
starting the secondary level in public schools in urban Peru.¡ Expande tu Mente! is a 90 …

This study provides evidence about how cognitive and non-cognitive skills are acquired
during childhood in four developing countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam) …

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Using life course analysis from the Young
Lives study of 12,000 children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over the past …

Whether allocating more resources improves learning outcomes for students in low-
performing public schools remains an open debate. We focus on the effect of increased …

There is limited evidence of the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and
child development in developing countries. Alcohol-induced physical IPV (AIPIPV) is one of …

Monism about well-being is the view that there is exactly one basic (prudential) good and
exactly one basic (prudential) bad. Pluralism about well-being is the view that there is either …

Aspirations have become a common theme in empirical economics studies but there is no
unified understanding of the range of outcomes they influence, the factors that shape them …

Young Lives has traced the development of a range of cognitive skills and psychosocial
traits from early childhood through to young adulthood across cohorts in four countries …

Poor households make little investments in human capital, despite the potential benefits and
are hence trapped in poverty. To overcome this poverty trap, households can invest more in …

Policy interventions to bolster the aspirations of children and adults have gained increasing
attention and are being employed to achieve better educational, labor market, and business …