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.'
affiliation: 'Vasilakos, N (Corresponding Author), Univ East Anglia, Norwich Business
  Sch, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk, England.

  Carmichael, Fiona; Darko, Christian K., Univ Birmingham, Birmingham Business Sch,
  Birmingham, W Midlands, England.

  Vasilakos, Nicholas, Univ East Anglia, Norwich Business Sch, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk,
  England.'
author: Carmichael, Fiona and Darko, Christian K. and Vasilakos, Nicholas
author-email: n.vasilakos@uea.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Carmichael
  given: Fiona
- family: Darko
  given: Christian K.
- family: Vasilakos
  given: Nicholas
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/00220388.2019.1626835
earlyaccessdate: JUN 2019
eissn: 1743-9140
files: []
issn: 0022-0388
journal: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-MARKET; SEQUENCE-ANALYSIS; BIRTH-WEIGHT; ADULTHOOD; TRAJECTORIES;

  EMPLOYMENT; WORK; TRANSITIONS; ATTAINMENT; BEHAVIOR'
language: English
month: MAY 3
number: '5'
number-of-cited-references: '50'
orcid-numbers: 'Vasilakos, Nicholas/0000-0003-3279-2885

  Carmichael, Fiona/0000-0002-7932-2410

  Darko, Christian/0000-0002-1665-2594'
pages: 964-983
papis_id: ee234d2c07d1e1e6d86a2f39ff9c0c0c
ref: Carmichael2020healthwellbeing
times-cited: '3'
title: 'Health and Well-being of Young People in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam:
  Life Course Impacts'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000475278900001
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '8'
volume: '56'
web-of-science-categories: Development Studies; Economics
year: '2020'