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
Deputy Research Director
Sonya Krutikova is a Professor of Economics at Manchester University and IFS Deputy Research Director.
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(2017), pp.653–656.
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