Introduction to symposium on using the young lives data to study child poverty in developing countries

Published on 1 May 2017

This article identifies some of the gaps in the existing literature pertaining to childhood development. It then introduces the Young Lives dataset, explaining the importance of such comparable data from longitudinal studies in different countries for this field of research, before exploring the contributions of each of the articles using this data in this journal's special edition.

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This article identifies some of the gaps in the existing literature pertaining to childhood development. It then introduces the Young Lives dataset, explaining the importance of such comparable data from longitudinal studies in different countries for this field of research, before exploring the contributions of each of the articles using this data in this journal's special edition.

    Authors

    Sonya Krutikova
    Sonya Krutikova

    Deputy Research Director

    Sonya Krutikova is a Professor of Economics at Manchester University and IFS Deputy Research Director.

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    Paul Glewwe

    Journal article details

    DOI
    10.1086/692352
    Publisher
    University of Chicago Press
    Issue
    Volume 65 ,Number 4, May 2017, pages 653-656

    Suggested citation

    Glewwe, P. and Krutikova, S. (2017), 'Introduction to symposium on using the young lives data to study child poverty in developing countries'65 ,Number 4, 653–656, https://doi.org/10.1086/692352

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