Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian children and their parents. We assess and disentangle the relative … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …

birth. Our work suggests that connecting youth personally with the experiences of teen parents is a promising avenue for …

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection …

provision of adequate diets for young children in the United States. An examination of the Health and Nutrition Examination … Survey reveals the following: 1. Average nutrient intakes of young children are well above recommended dietary standards …, with the exception of iron. 2. Average nutrient intakes for children in households of lower economic status are very …

In our opinion, the trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated accurately. We use five models to … estimate the BMI trends of non-Hispanic US-born black and white children and adolescents ages 2-19 born 1941-2006 on the basis …

Using the quasi-random assignment of 760,000 children in U.S. military families, we show that neighborhood attributes … across ages groups. Importantly, the same locations benefit children with equal potency across race or sex. Twenty years of … Army's quasi-random assignment reduces Black-white earnings gaps among the children of Army personnel by 23% …

Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort (NLSY79), exploiting the availability of repeated observations on young women (daughters) and of …