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Children are more likely to develop and reach their full potential when they are protected from disease, provided … proper nutrition, and live in stimulating and safe environments. Unfortunately, many children are deprived of nurturing care … and favorable environment. In the Philippines, one-third of children under five years old were stunted based on 2015 …
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This study reports on the situational analysis conducted for Zamboanga del Norte as part of a larger study that aims to inform the development of strategies to improve early childhood care and development outcomes in KOICA-UNICEF intervention sites. A critical assessment of several underlying...
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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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divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …
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Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...
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began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …
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This paper provides novel evidence on differences in health outcomes of children in religious and non … does not affect children's height-for-age, but increases children's body mass index and subjective health. Father …'s religiosity has a stronger salutary effect than mother's religiosity. In fatherless families, children's health is more strongly …
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developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …
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It is well known, that the presences of children lower parental happiness. That is based on psychological and … economical reasons. The effect holds on for micro data of the GSOEP. The number of children affects an inverse u-shaped curve on … after generating terms of interaction for catching some effects of macroeconomic uncertainty. Children turn to be positive …
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