comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual … that the "optimal" amount of time that children and adolescents should spend physically active each day varies by the …

The incidence of adiposity in the early years of life has outgrown the prevalence rate in older children and … parental unemployment on children's weight before, during and after a recession. Child growth charts are used to quantify … children according to overweight for BMI, weight for age, and weight for height measures. For BMI, the probability of a child …

resources, and parents' working time when growing up. These findings imply that the adverse effects associated with parental …

attainment of parents. We then decompose the overall trend into a parental background effect, a general expansion effect and a … tertiary education can be explained by the fact that the gap in participation rates between women with lowly educated parents … and women with highly educated parents has narrowed. We then investigate the role of financial constraints in explaining …