Objective To provide evidence on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health
of young people who grew up in poverty in low/middle-income countries (LMICs). Design A …

Background: There is little empirical evidence on the effect of childhood malnutrition on
children's cognitive achievements in low income countries like Ethiopia. A longitudinal data …

Young Lives is an international longitudinal study investigating the changing nature of
childhood poverty in four low-income countries [Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru and …

Lockdown measures during the pandemic have resulted in school closure worldwide
affecting nearly 9 out of 10 students. Consequently, remote schooling has become a …

We use data on children at ages 8, 12, and 15 from Young Lives, a cohort study of 12,000
children across Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru, and Vietnam to document the …

In this paper we use high quality data from two developing countries, Ethiopia and Peru, to
estimate the production functions of human capital from age 1 to age 15. We characterize …

The Young Lives wealth index is intended to be the primary measure of socio-economic
status of households within the Young Lives sample. The construction of the index draws on …

I use unique child-level panel data from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam, four developing
countries with widely differing levels of student achievement, to study the extent to which …

Far fewer people migrate than global disparities in wealth and well-being would lead us to
predict, yet we know relatively little about why those who presumably have much to gain …

We examine the situation of adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic in four low-and
middle-income countries using data from a large-scale phone survey conducted in 2020 …