Growing up in poverty : findings from young lives

Growing up in poverty : findings from young lives /

This collection brings together the latest evidence from Young Lives, a unique international study that focuses on children and poverty ₆ particularly how poverty affects their development and their lives as children, and how children and their families respond to poverty. It shows how the persisten...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Bourdillon, M. F. C. (Editor), Boyden, Jo (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Series:Palgrave studies on children and development.
Subjects:
Poor children.
Poverty.
Poverty
poverty.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Child Poverty and the Centrality of Schooling; Michael Bourdillon and Jo Boyden
  • 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; Paul Dornan and Mar̕a Još Ogando Portela
  • 2. Family Socio-economic Status, Mother's Psychosocial Skills and Children's Human Capital: Evidence from Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries; Andreas Georgiadis and Priscila Hermida
  • 3. 'I Am Dependent On My Children's Support': Risk and Protective Factors for Children Experiencing Adverse Events; Mar̕a Još Ogando Portela and Kirrily Pells
  • 4. Gender, Agency and Poverty: Children's Everyday Experiences in Andhra Pradesh and Vietnam; Gina Crivello, Vu Thi Thanh Huong and Uma Vennam
  • PART II: HOW DOES SCHOOLING HELP THE POOR?
  • 5. Schooling and Cognitive Outcomes from Childhood to Youth: A Longitudinal Analysis; Caine Rolleston and Zoe James
  • 6. Changes in Rural Children's Use of Time: Evidence from Ethiopia and Andhra Pradesh, India; Virginia Morrow, Yisak Tafere, and Uma Vennam
  • 7. The Role of Formal Education in the Subjective Well-being of Young Teenagers in Rural and Urban Peru; Alexandra Cussianovich and Vanessa Rojas
  • 8. Fulfilling the Promise of School Education? Factors Shaping Education Inequalities in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam; Helen Murray
  • 9. How Much Difference Does School Make and For Whom? A Two-Country Study of the Impact of School Quality on Educational Attainment; Sofya Krutikova, Caine Rolleston and Elisabetta Aurino
  • 10. Ethnic Minority Children's and Adults' Perceptions and Experiences of Schooling in Vietnam: A Case Study of the Cham H'roi; Vu Thi Thanh Huong
  • 11. Educational Opportunities and Learning Outcomes of Children in Peru: A Longitudinal Model; Santiago Cueto, Juan Le̤n, and Ismael G. Mųoz
  • 12. Reflections: Inequality, School and Social Change; Michael Bourdillon and Jo Boyden.

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