Global education agendas frequently draw on the construct of 'school readiness', indexing the developmental trajectories of children to the expectations of school systems. Through in-depth ethnographic research in a village in Bihar, India, this paper examines how normative discourses of 'school readiness' govern family strategies for early…

Educational access in developing countries has improved significantly in recent years, but less evidence is available on learning and learning progress in comparative perspective. This paper employs data from Young Lives to examine levels and trends in cognitive skill development and the links to enrolment in school across the four study countries…

Provided in this document are detailed abstracts of studies in the areas of human development, and marriage and family relations. Studies were completed in the Department of Child Development of the Faculty of Home Science, M. S. University of Baroda, India. The first section, on human development, describes studies of physical, motor, and mental…