predominant assumption that behaviour and weight is a choice made by children, or their parents. Copyright Springer Science … measure parental resource constraints. The aim of this study is to examine the heterogeneous effects of children’s (or their … behaviour and parental socioeconomic background, a more complete but more complex picture arises. Our findings challenge the …

, we use a combination of lab, field, and survey evidence to study whether these two types of behaviour are indeed linked … behaviour in cashing the check and completing tasks on time. Our results lend support to the hypothesis that subjects who have a …

firms’ dynamic behaviour in factor markets. …

poverty to classify children and their households into four groups, analyse their movements in and out of poverty, and explore … more detail, looking at the interplay between the progress or decline of households and that of children within those … and 3 (2002–2009), these changes were not always beneficial to children and did not reach nearly 1 in 10 households …

The Early Development Instrument (EDI) is a population measure and an indicator of children’s developmental health … analyse the psychometric properties of EDI-Sweden. Data about 116 5-year-old children were collected at ten preschools in two …

Empirical analyses of the determinants of life satisfaction routinely include the number of children as one of the … socio demographic controls, without explicitly considering that, for a given household income, more children imply a lower … level of income per family member. The variable “number of children” then often attracts a negative or insignificant …

This paper examines multidimensional poverty among children in Afghanistan using the Alkire-Foster method. Several … previous studies have underlined the need to separate children from their adult nexus when studying poverty and treat them … and to be what children themselves value and have reason to value. The case of Afghanistan is particularly relevant as …