Growing up in Poverty : Findings from Young Lives.

Cover -- Growing Up in Poverty -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Child Poverty and the Centrality of Schooling -- Eliminating poverty -- Young Lives -- Contexts of poverty -- Economic growth in the four countries -- Changes at the community level -- Family background and the development of skills -- The many dimensions of poverty -- Making decisions -- Learning and growing up -- School systems in the four countries -- The growing dominance of school -- Work and learning -- Unequal outcomes from school -- Inequality and context -- Note -- References -- Part I: Poverty and the Lives of Growing Children -- 1: How Does Where Children Live Affect How They Develop? Evidence from Communities in Ethiopia and Vietnam -- Introduction: why place matters for children's development -- How analysis of child poverty features the impact of where children live -- Community change between 2002 and 2009 -- Ethiopia: improvements in basic services though food insecurity persists -- Vietnam: fast change but large disparities between communities -- How much do child outcomes vary between communities? -- Wide differences exist in children's outcomes between communities -- How much does community matter and why? -- Place matters in understanding how children's outcomes vary, but household characteristics matter more -- Area wealth and average education levels seem to matter for children -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2: Family Socio-economic Status, Mother's Psychosocial Skills, and Children's Human Capital: Evidence from Four Low and Middle-income Countries -- Introduction -- The relationship between parental SES, maternal psychosocial skills and children's human capital -- The data and the dependent and independent variables -- Dependent variables -- Independent variables -- Results.

Child's cognitive skills -- Child's psychosocial skills -- The relationship between the child's psychosocial and cognitive skills -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: composite variables -- 3: Risks and Protective Factors for Children Experiencing Adverse Events -- Understanding shocks during middle childhood -- Setting the scene: methodology and limitations -- Covariant and idiosyncratic shocks: incidence and importance -- Risk management and coping mechanisms -- Ex-ante risk-management strategies -- Ex-post coping strategies -- Impacts of shocks on children's outcomes -- Nutritional outcomes -- Mathematics standardized achievement tests -- Psychosocial competencies: agency -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4: Gender, Agency, and Poverty: Children's Everyday Experiences in Andhra Pradesh and Vietnam -- Changing the world through adolescent girls -- Social and policy changes in India and Vietnam -- Current study -- Survey outcomes -- Everyday experiences of young people -- Schooling and work -- Work as moral practice -- Facing hardship -- A sense of responsibility -- Protecting parents -- 'A good name' -- Temporal considerations -- The social nature of children's agency -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: How does Schooling Help the Poor? -- 5: Schooling and Cognitive Outcomes from Childhood to Youth: A Longitudinal Analysis -- Schooling and cognitive skills -- Data and methods -- Evidence from Young Lives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: Regression result tables -- 6: Changes in Rural Children's Use of Time: Evidence from Ethiopia and Andhra Pradesh -- Changing lives of children -- Ethiopia -- Case study: Tach-Meret -- Andhra Pradesh, India -- Case study: Poompuhar -- Discussion -- Notes -- References.

7: The Role of Formal Education in the Subjective Well-being of Young Teenagers in Rural and Urban Peru -- A pivotal moment -- The notion of well-being -- Methods -- The lives of urban and rural boys and girls: changes and continuities -- Conceptions of well-being -- Conceptions of post-secondary education -- Evaluating possibilities -- Final reflections -- Notes -- References -- 8: Fulfilling the Promise of School Education? Factors Shaping Education Inequalities in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam -- Introduction -- Education, poverty, and equity: questions arising from research and policy -- Education inequalities in four diverse country contexts -- Factors shaping inequalities in school education -- Unequal school trajectories start in early childhood -- High enrolment but stark inequalities in children's progression through school -- Education achievement gaps in the absence of quality schooling for all -- Patterns of low-fee private schooling: evidence from Andhra Pradesh -- The importance of flexible schooling as a strategy for inclusion -- High educational aspirations and expectations for the labour market -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9: How Much Difference Does School Make and For Whom? A Two-Country Study of the Impact of School Quality on Educational Attainment -- Introduction -- Background and motivation -- Study contexts -- Estimation methodology and data -- Estimation methodology -- Sample -- Curriculum-based attainment measures -- Measures of children's backgrounds -- Measures of school inputs -- Results -- How do children perform at the age of 11 in relation to their characteristics before school? -- School quality -- Is school contributing to widening the gap? -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References.

10: Ethnic Minority Children's and Adults' Perceptions and Experiences of Schooling in Vietnam: A Case Study of the Cham H'Roi -- Disparities in schooling -- Research context -- The research site, sample, and data -- Children's and adults' perceptions of schooling -- Children's experience of schooling -- The pull factors -- The push factors -- Poverty -- Low parental involvement -- Poor teaching and learning environment -- Lack of role models -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 11: Educational Opportunities and Learning Outcomes of Children in Peru: A Longitudinal Model -- Introduction -- Educational quality, social inequality, and opportunities -- The Young Lives study -- Methods -- Children and their families -- Variables, instruments, and procedures -- Results -- Descriptive analysis -- Multivariate analysis -- Discussion: unequal opportunities, unequal outcomes -- Notes -- References -- 12: Reflections: Inequality, School, and Social Change -- Equality -- Schooling -- Inequality of school education -- School and outcomes -- Changing values -- Well-being -- Implications for policy -- Note -- References -- Index.

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