---
title: "Young Lives: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 20 archived papers mentioned Young Lives in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in May 2024 (2)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/young-lives
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/young-lives.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 20 archived papers mentioned Young Lives in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in May 2024 (2). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Young Lives

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/7.md)

Household, health and living-standards surveys of low- and middle-income countries.

- data category: Developing-country household surveys
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Young Lives survey, Young Lives study, Young Lives data

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Developing-country household surveys datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/developing-country-household-surveys.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 20 archived papers mentioned Young Lives in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in May 2024 (2).
- Young Lives was mentioned in 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #165 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Health Economics and Policy (1).
- Most of them appeared in Economics & Human Biology (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Young Lives was mentioned in 26 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (10), higher education and research (9) and health economics and policy (7).
- 7 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Oxford (7), Group for the Analysis of Development (5) and Lancaster University (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Educational Development (6), Social Science & Medicine (2) and Economics & Human Biology (2).
- The most-cited of them is “Breaking the poverty cycle? Conditional cash transfers and higher education attainment” (International Journal of Educational Development, 2022), with 27 citations.

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 8 | 5 | 7 | 20 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Journal of Educational Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-development.md) | 6 |
| 2 | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [Economics & Human Biology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-human-biology.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 7 |
| 2 | Group for the Analysis of Development | 5 |
| 3 | [Lancaster University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lancaster-university.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [University of Pennsylvania](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pennsylvania.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 2 |
| 6 | University of Cape Town | 2 |
| 7 | [University of York](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-york.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [Australian National University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/australian-national-university.md) | 1 |
| 9 | Bahir Dar University | 1 |
| 10 | Bank of Spain | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 14 |
| 2 | Peru | 5 |
| 3 | United States | 4 |
| 4 | Australia | 2 |
| 5 | Spain | 2 |
| 6 | Italy | 2 |
| 7 | Vietnam | 2 |
| 8 | South Africa | 2 |
| 9 | Ethiopia | 1 |
| 10 | France | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Peru | 4 |
| 2 | Young Lives | 4 |
| 3 | Ethiopia | 3 |
| 4 | Vietnam | 3 |
| 5 | Young Lives study | 3 |
| 6 | [academic performance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/academic-performance.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [human capital](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/human-capital.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [low- and middle-income countries](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/low-and-middle-income-countries.md) | 3 |
| 9 | working memory | 3 |
| 10 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 27 | 0.5 | [Breaking the poverty cycle? Conditional cash transfers and higher education attainment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2022.102612) | [International Journal of Educational Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-development.md) | 2022-05-14 | Anouk Patel‐Campillo, Vania Bitia Salas García |
| 2 | 15 | 0.4 | [Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106480) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2023-12-15 | Alan Sánchez, Marta Favara, Margaret A. Sheridan et al. |
| 3 | 12 | 0.2 | [The relationship between access to pre-school education and the development of social-emotional competencies: Longitudinal evidence from Peru](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102482) | [International Journal of Educational Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-development.md) | 2021-09-05 | Briyit Arapa, Eduardo Sánchez, Alejandra Hurtado‐Mazeyra et al. |
| 4 | 12 | 0.2 | [Diagnosing the learning crisis: What can value-added analysis contribute?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102507) | [International Journal of Educational Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-development.md) | 2021-11-01 | Moses Oketch, Caine Rolleston, Jack Rossiter |
| 5 | 11 | 0.4 | [Long-term effects of early life rainfall shocks on foundational cognitive skills: Evidence from Peru](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101407) | [Economics & Human Biology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-human-biology.md) | 2024-06-04 | Nicolás Pazos, Marta Favara, Alan Sánchez et al. |

## Papers

*Papers mentioning Young Lives in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-13 | [SES and growth in stature during early adulthood in low- and middle-income countries](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2026.101655) | [Economics & Human Biology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-human-biology.md) | Alessandro Tarozzi | Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Barcelona School of Economics; European University Institute |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Young Lives. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/young-lives

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-young-lives,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Young Lives},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/young-lives}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).