have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This … represents some of the first evidence of a causal effect of PE on youth obesity, and thus offers at least some support to the …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health … poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than … and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

Anhebung der Altersgrenze für Jugendliche auf 21 Jahre und ein Stufenmodell für Jugendliche nach britischem Vorbild. Die …

In this paper we will briefly review recent trends in employment outcomes for disadvantaged youth, focusing … education and employment outcomes, both among in-school youth who are at risk of dropping out and becoming disconnected as well … as out-of-school youth who have already done so; 2) Policies to increase earnings and incent more labor force …

This paper studies the migration response of the youth from new EU member states to disparate conditions in an enlarged … duration. We find that migration intentions are high among those not married and among males with children, but both categories …

We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little … attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities … mechanisms: parental role model directly influencing children behavior, intergenerational transmission of preferences, or network …