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Sustainable Human Development Across the Life Course: Evidence from Longitudinal Research

Prerna Banati

Abstract

Sustainable Human Development Across the Lifecourse brings together impactful findings that respond to the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 commitment to ‘leave no one behind’. Drawing together international longitudinal studies researching child and adolescent wellbeing in over 40 countries, contributors explore a wide range and complexity of pressing global issues, with emphasis given to excluded and vulnerable populations and gender inequality. Importantly, the book sets out actionable strategies for policy makers and practitioners to help strengthen the global Sustainable Development Goals fram ... More

Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals, Longitudinal Research, Children and Adolescents

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2021 Print ISBN-13: 9781529204827
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2021 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781529204827.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Prerna Banati, editor
UNICEF's Office of Research, Innocenti

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Dedication

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes

Notes on Contributors

Foreword: Understanding and Enhancing Human Development Among Global Youth – On the Unique Value of Developmentally Oriented Longitudinal Research

Introduction: Measuring Sustainable Human Development Across the Life Course

Prerna Banati

1 Exploring the Potential for Gender Norm Change in Adolescent Girls: Evidence from ‘Real Choices, Real Lives’ Longitudinal, Qualitative Study Data

Jenny Rivett and Lilli Loveday

2 Unequal Educational Trajectories: The Case of Ethiopia

Ilze Plavgo

3 Early Life Transitions Increase the Risk for HIV Infection: Using Latent Class Growth Models to Assess the Effect of Key Life Events on HIV Incidence Among Adolescent Girls in Rural South Africa

Audrey Pettifor, Emily Agnew, Torsten B. Neilands, Jennifer Ahern, Stephen Tollman, Kathleen Kahn and Sheri A. Lippman

4 Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence from the Longitudinal Parenting Across Cultures Project

Jennifer E. Lansford, W. Andrew Rothenberg, Sombat Tapanya, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Liane Peña Alampay, Suha M. Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge, Sevtap Gurdal, Qin Liu, Qian Long, Patrick S. Malone, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Ann T. Skinner, Emma Sorbring and Laurence Steinberg

5 Achieving Gender Equality: Understanding Gender Equality and Health Among Vulnerable Adolescents in the Sustainable Development Goals Era

Leah R. Koenig*, Mengmeng Li* and Robert W. Blum

6 Capturing the Complexities of Adolescent Transitions Through a Mixed Methods Longitudinal Research Design

Sarah Baird, Nicola Jones, Bassam Abu Hamad, Maheen Sultan and Workneh Yadete

7 Child Well-being Across the Life Course: What Do We Know, What Should We Know?

Gary Pollock, Haridhan Goswami and Aleksandra Szymczyk

8 Mauritian Joint Child Health Project: A Multigenerational Family Study Emerging from a Prospective Birth Cohort Study: Initial Alcohol-related Outcomes in the Offspring Generation

Susan E. Luczak, Shameem Oomur, Kristina Jackson and Tashneem Mahoomed

Conclusion: The Future of Longitudinal Research

Prerna Banati

End Matter

Index