Working Paper

Does Visual Acuity Have an Effect on Children’s Educational Achievement?

author(s) Cueto, S. - Escobal, J. - Leon, J. - Penny, M.
from UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
permalink open
themes
regions
  • South-Eastern Asia
  • Asia
  • World
  • Northern Europe
  • Europe
  • South America
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Americas
  • Southern Asia
  • Eastern Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
citation

Cueto, Santiago, Javier Escobal, Juan Leon, Mary Penny (2017) Does Visual Acuity Have an Effect on Children’s Educational Achievement? Young Lives Working Paper 172. Oxford: Young Lives

Publications and datasets provided via GARDIAN

Abstract

This working paper explores whether mild or moderate levels of visual impairment are associated with educational performance for 7 and 8-year-old children in Peru. Young Lives is an international study of childhood poverty, following the lives of 12,000 children in 4 countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam) over 15 years. Young Lives is funded by the UK Department for International Development

Open original