hypothesis that young children of immigrants would be at lower obesity risk if they lived in neighborhoods where neighbors share … for Women, Infants and Children in Los Angeles County, we examined the relation between BMI z-scores in low …-income children aged 2–5 years (N = 250,029) and the concentration of neighborhood residents who spoke the same language as the …

markers of social stress exposure in children. Children age 4–14 from 87 neighborhoods were recruited through five urban … was obtained from saliva using commercially available kits and sTL was determined for 104 children using quantitative PCR …. Analysis was performed on 99 children who had complete data including sTL, social environmental stress, and additional …

of self-control and 2D:4D digit ratio. Children with low 2D:4D digit ratio are less likely to delay gratification. Low 2D … testosterone children are less likely to delay gratification. …

first and second leading causes of death and morbidity among young children in developing countries. The fact that a large … tested in a developing country context, and which focus on children as the primary target population. Overall, we find that …

We show that preschoolers exhibit the endowment effect as evidenced by experiments where children generally chose to … children’s innate psychobiological traits—emotional state, gender, handedness, and digit ratio. The trials were conducted with … 141 children across 6 kindergartens. We also found support that children, like adults, exhibit a preference for physical …

populations in the world. In 2000 over half of Ethiopian preschool children were stunted (height for age z-scores (HAZ) of -2 …

analysis of child growth data for approximately 99,000 children in 19 countries with some of the highest burdens of …