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This paper defines a category of ‘emancipation rights', encompassing both women's human rights and children's human rights. The paper argues that some of the emancipatory human rights challenges are the same for women and children: these concern the need to ‘see that category of people...
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This contribution seeks to investigate the elaboration of the right of the child to health in the Convention on the … Rights of the Child and the General Comments of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The purpose of this chapter is to …
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The justification of the child's right to know her origins and the fundamental interests underlying it have attracted a … balancing of the competing rights is contrasted with the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)'s focus on the child … understanding and ultimate reconciliation of the child's multiple identities - social and biological …
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million of them are under the age of 5 and about 73% of the child live in the village/ rural areas and 27% in urban areas …. However, one-third of these children spend their life below the international poverty line. The violation of child rights is a … basic rights. The government of Bangladesh with UNICEF has taken many steps to school for children and decrease child labor …
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...
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Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
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We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an ingroup or an out-group...
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We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase with age. -- social preferences ; children ; adolescents ;...
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