. This involves a method for embodying the ideal of children having priority on social resources into a particular set of …

that the presence of children has on the time devoted to elder care. We combine the approach of the Social Cognitive Theory …", i.e, the presence of children, while parents are engaged in elder care activities, increases by 11.63% the time devoted … per day when children are present during adult care activities. …

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 …

Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation …

and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts …) Vocabulary, (3) Mathematics, (4) Reading and (5) Comprehension. We find that while left-handed children have a significantly … poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than …

This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The … for fathers. The presence of a childcare worker per child reduces the time cost of children to a couple of parents by 5%. …

health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self-reported having poor … and depression symptoms. Moreover, we find that mothers’ health shocks have more negative consequences on younger children …

likely that children who migrate face different challenges in attaining high school credentials depending upon their age at … immigration. This paper examines the education outcomes of a cohort of immigrants who arrived in Canada as children. The 2006 … Census is used and it is found that there is in fact a distinct change in the chances that children will hold a high …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …