The pregnancy project sought to expose the existence, and challenge the validity, of stereotypes about Hispanic women … report reviews the factors associated with teenage pregnancy and early childbearing and builds a framework to explore these … issues systematically, towards the design of effective policy interventions in LAC. Teen pregnancy and early childbearing …

representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … harm child development and children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed geocoded data that follows national … plant opened or closed in between the conceptions of different children in the same family. I find that children who were …

representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … harm child development and children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed geocoded data that follows national … plant opened or closed in between the conceptions of different children in the same family. I find that children who were …

Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal … Survey of Youth respondents over time, I compare siblings who were gestating before versus after a Toxic Release Inventory …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … characteristics, and girl children exhibit poorer nutritional status than boys. Results from a quantile decomposition procedure …

ages eight and 15 years for children in four low- and middle-income countries.We find associations between nutrition status … prevalence and gender gaps favoring males to invest more in preschool children …

beschrieben. Besonders eingegangen wird auf die Risikogruppen: Arbeitslose, Alleinerziehende, Ältere sowie Kinder und Jugendliche …. Auf diese Weise öffnet sich die lebensweltliche Dimension von Armut, denn Armut tangiert Gesundheit, Wohlbefinden, Bildung …