economic conditions and it is frequently argued that reducing income inequalities will mitigate psychosocial risks of children … family income and contribute to later outcomes. To examine these issues, data were drawn from a birth cohort of New Zealand … children born in 1977 and followed to age 30. …

adult. For many of these children and young people, caring has been shown to have a detrimental effect on their lives. For …-aged children or to use qualitative methods with young people associated with caring projects. In contrast, little is known about … the extent and nature of caring undertaken by younger children. This paper reports findings from a random sample survey of …

Many studies have examined the effect of life events, education, and income on well-being. Conversely, research … derived from Bourdieu and Social Comparison Theory. Social comparison between adolescents and their parents is suggested to be …

smoking one cigarette per day during adolescence can lower students’ scores on mathematics tests by about 0.08 standard …

We conducted a randomized effectiveness trial to test the hypothesis that foster children of primary-school age who … were exposed to an individualized direct-instruction tutoring intervention delivered by their foster parents would … experience significantly greater pre-test to post-test gains in reading and math than would foster children in a wait …

into playing music, we take into account detailed information on the child and its parents, which may determine both the …