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Spanish. PRIDI created a new tool, the Engle Scale, for evaluating development in children aged 24 to 59 months in four … children develop and the adult-child interactions predominant within this environment - referred to in this study as the … maternal education. Gaps between the development of children in the top and low extremes in these factors matter. By 59 months …
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Recent trends in the labor force participation of women have brought much public attention to the issue of women opting out. This paper explores the decision of working women to exit the labor market at a time of major transition - the birth of a child - utilizing linked vital statistics,...
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children. The second step is to ask: What would have happened if these countries had transformed the architecture of their …
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We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of …
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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 …
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present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …
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In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … strongly influences the time spent by both spouses with their children in 2002, but not in 1988. Fathers were much more …
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This paper assesses the impact of social factors on the development of allergic diseases in early childhood. Epidemiological research has shown increasing allergy rates with improvements in social economic status (SES). However, we argue that the pattern of social influences on allergies is too...
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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 …
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We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement. Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …
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