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Camfield, Laura 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0165-9857
(2011)
Outcomes of Orphanhood in Ethiopia: A Mixed Methods Study.
Social Indicators Research, 104 (1).
pp. 87-102.
ISSN 1573-0921
Abstract
The paper addresses the question of whether parental death always has a strongly negative effect on children’s outcomes using quantitative and qualitative data from Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia. It investigates the validity of potential mediating factors identified by other studies in Sub-Saharan Africa using data from the whole sample (n = 973) and explores these processes in-depth through the experiences of three orphans in one community in Addis Ababa. The paper concludes that the outcomes of orphans and non-orphans in poor communities are not significantly different, supporting the need to address vulnerability at a societal level. Nonetheless, specific groups, for example, older female children who have lost their mothers, may face particular risks that should be addressed with targeted interventions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development University of East Anglia > Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
| Depositing User: | Laura Camfield |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2011 08:28 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2022 14:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/24941 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11205-010-9728-y |
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