responses of both mothers and children in three key measures of behavior: orientation, positive contingency, and negative …Background: Home visiting programs constitute an important policy to support vulnerable families with young children … registration: 11 June 2015). Results: The intervention significantly improved the interactions between girls and their mothers …

providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are … supposed to provide a mid-day meal and also advise mothers on health and nutrition for their child. Our one-day caregiver … training covered basic health and nutrition facts with advice on how to communicate with mothers for behavior change at home …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for … between maternal employment and our measures for children's diet and physical activity. Our study also suggests that …

teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … her friends' mothers' choices when she was a teenager, and the interaction between the two.The empirical salience of this … distant she is (in terms of working hours) from the friends' mothers …

women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation …. To further explore this channel, we design a randomized survey experiment, in which 1500 Italian women aged 20 to 40 are … exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …

of mothers working full-time has steadily increased. We provide the first empirical evidence that the increase in mothers …-run influence of the family network on mothers' labour decisions up to seven years post birth. For identification, we exploit …

In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of … native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in …-over effects from immigrant children to native Dutch children. Immigrant children themselves experience negative language spill …

applies several anthropometric and other measures of fatness to approximately 14,000 children aged two to nine participating … in both waves in 16 regions of eight European countries. Peers are defined as same-sex children in the same school and … misperceptions of their own children's weight goes hand in hand with fatter peer groups, supporting the notion that in making such …

Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample … of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual …