This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands …. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children's exposure to neighborhood poverty and affluence (e … children were more likely than native Dutch children to live in a poor neighborhood at any specific stage within childhood, but …

formation ; cognitive skills ; noncognitive skills ; technology of skill formation ; investment in children …

overall life satisfaction. Partnership formation, the school-to-work transition, and parenting younger children are all … older children start to set in, and life satisfaction begins to decline. …

As children reach adolescence, peer interactions become increasingly central to their development, whereas the direct … influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may continue to exert leverage by shaping their children's peer groups. We … study interactions of parenting style and peer effects in a model where children's skill accumulation depends on both …

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …

-being, and renewed focus on effective policy interventions to aid disadvantaged children, we study a cohort of children born in a …

administrative data on schooling and birth records from Chile and Norway, we establish that children who receive extra medical care …