This article deals with children's right to participation through legal representatives in the Swedish child protection … system, with a specific focus on if and how children are given the possibility to influence decisions made about them in this … for children and what weight children's wishes and views should be given. It is shown that the Swedish system, although …

) in order to jointly generate tools and knowledge that enable the timely identification of children and adolescents who …

agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare … of children has been impacted by structural transformation. Our analysis depicts a society that has made great progress …

work, household chores, and school related activities of Guatemalan children between 2000 and 2011. The paper also exploits … conditional on having stayed in school for time t. Results suggest that working children are two to four times more likely to drop … out of school or to have never enrolled than the rest of the children in the sample. The findings also reveal the …