responsibilities has long-term implications for child development. She examines why some parents and children thrive while others …"They Sure Don't Make It Easy for Parents": Low-Income Working Parents and Their Children -- "The Invisible Americans … child development. Building on years of research and over 1,500 interviews with new mothers, fathers, and their children …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …, indicating transmission through cultural factors. We find that, when both adoptive parents are overweight, the likelihood of an … adopted child being overweight is between 10% and 20% higher than when they are not. We also find that the cultural …

-age children, the gender of the child becomes as important to the analysis as the gender of the parent. With regard to household … and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … their parents' off-farm work decisions for three aggregated ethnic groups (majority Han, Muslim minorities, and non- Muslim …

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. …

investments by college and non-college educated parents and their children widened up precisely during this first period … growing gaps in time investments between college and non-college educated parents. Competition for university places in the UK …