Background: The trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated very convincingly because of the absence …. Methods: We use five regression models to estimate the BMI trends of non-Hispanic US-born black and white children and … adolescents ages 2-19 between 1941 and 2004. Results: The increase in BMIZ values during the period considered was 1.3σ (95% CI: 1 …

This book provides novel and in-depth perspectives on evaluating environment and sustainability issues in developing …

We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of …

longitudinal, nationally representative research programme in Hungary that focused on children aged between birth and 18 years of …

Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps … go against the status quo - to remain in school longer or marry later, for example. This approach may inadvertently … trial led to a reduction in school dropout and early marriage. We see large improvements in girls' mental health but only in …

) this analysis provides an environment discussing sustainability in an appropriate inasmuch dynamic way. The paper makes … out to be a pure effort tax in the long run. (4) Strong resource sustainability is not possible, given cost reducing …

mitigate the identification problem posed by observational data, I design a survey experiment with poor households in India. I …' beliefs about the human capital production function and their preferences for inequality in children's outcomes, as well as … inequality concerns over children's final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the …

In this paper, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to investigate whether and how a German youth' s … choice of secondary school (Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium) varies with the timing and duration of poverty experienced in … surprisingly, persistently poor youth are less likely to choose higher educational trajectories. …

Even today, school segregation continues to be understood as legitimate in Germany. Charting the discourse of learning … disability provides insights into special education's development as a segregated, independent system of school types and the … resulting legitimacy that contributes to the maintenance of school segregation throughout educational systems in Germany. We …