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 …

enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff …-migrants, but fell among migrants, with the opposite pattern for working. For children (7 to 14), enrolment did not change among non … increased for both children and adolescents. We find evidence that healthcare utilization decreased for both children and …

In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular … has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or …

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 …

We conduct experiments eliciting risk preferences with over 1,400 children and adolescents aged 3-15 years old. We … significantly greater risk aversion than adolescent boys. This pattern is not observed among young children, suggesting that the … (specifically math ability) are positively associated with risk taking. Executive functions among children, and soft skills among …

We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children … instrumenting children's looks by their mother's, and do not work through teachers' differential treatment of better …-looking children, any relation between looks and a child's behavior, his/her victimization by bullies or self-confidence. Results from …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative …

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 …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

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 …