Health and well-being of young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Life course impacts

Carmichael, Fiona, Darko, Christian and Vasilakos, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3279-2885 (2020) Health and well-being of young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Life course impacts. Journal of Development Studies, 56 (5). pp. 964-983. ISSN 0022-0388

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Abstract

Using data from four waves of the Young Lives longitudinal survey, we follow the lives of 3,064 eight-year-old children over 12 years in four developing countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam) to explore the links between children’s lives and their health and wellbeing in early adulthood. We apply a novel combination of sequence analysis with clustering and difference-in-differences estimation techniques to identify links between health and wellbeing outcomes in early adulthood and six distinct clusters grouping similar life course pathways. The latter are characterised by family living conditions, economic status and experience of critical life events (including economic shocks). Our results indicate that there were significant differences in health and wellbeing between children in the most advantaged and less advantaged clusters. These wellbeing gaps all narrowed over time but only completely closed for one cluster. In contrast, only some of the initial health gaps narrowed. These results suggest that policy aimed at improving health and wellbeing outcomes in early adulthood needs to focus on supporting disadvantaged young children.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Early Title: Socioeconomic determinants of health and wellbeing of young people: A life course approach
Uncontrolled Keywords: adulthood,attainment,behavior,birth-weight,employment,labor-market,sequence-analysis,trajectories,transitions,work
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Responsible Business Regulation Group
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 25 Jun 2019 10:30
Last Modified: 14 Jun 2023 13:49
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/71538
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2019.1626835

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