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 …

This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National … characteristics from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). The sociability relationship varies across parents and children by …

disadvantage (socio-economic position) and contextual disadvantage (environmental context in which children grow up). The objective … neighbourhood careers of children once they have left the parental home.We use a quasi-experimental family design exploiting sibling …

There is a heated debate in the US, Canada and many European countries about introducing universally accessible child … analyze the introduction of universal child care in Norway, addressing the impact on children's long-run outcomes. Our precise … and robust difference-in-difference estimates show that child care had strong positive effects on children's educational …

large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the … most hard-hit cities completing 1.2 fewer years. Second, these children were about half inches (one centimeter) shorter and …