We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the … delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we show that longer leave increases adolescent well …-being, conscientiousness and emotional stability, and reduces school absenteeism. The effects are strongest for children of mothers who would …

the birth of a first child for both parents for cohorts of young adults after leaving the educational system. Using an …

, or divorce on children's school enrollment, for children aged from 7 to 22. We find children from two-parent families …-family types, the negative effect on children of parental divorce is higher than that of parental death, while the effect of … parental migration is the lowest. Comparing the effect of single-father and single-mother households, we find that children …

Responsibility is one of the key themes to emerge from the reforms to the youth justice system that have taken place … since 1998. Now, the child and his parents are responsible for the offending behaviour of the child. This article explores … the nature of child and parental responsibility in the youth justice system. In particular it analyses the type of …

Um Armut zu bekämpfen, muss die menschliche Entwicklung gestärkt werden. Allerdings werden heute 250 Millionen Kinder … Determinanten kindlicher Entwicklung auf der Ebene des Kindes, der Eltern, der Schule oder des Landes. Der erste Aufsatz stellt die … Robustheit der elterlichen Präferenzen als Hauptdeterminanten der Größenunterschiede zwischen Kinder... …

-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or …'s fatness effects in the youth obesity probability equations. The probability models show that if either of the parents of a 10 …In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular …

administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian children and their parents. We assess and disentangle the relative … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …