steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses …

The literature on pro-social behavior shows that older children are more generous than younger children; however, the … level of individual generosity is heterogeneous even between children of the same age. This paper investigates whether a … child’s popularity affects a child’s generosity. Our participants – 231 children, six to twelve years old – decide how many …

. Although children are impacted by domestic violence, attention to the unique needs of children as they relate to domestic … this focus group study that can inform the safety planning needs of children impacted by domestic violence. The themes … to which children should be involved in safety planning, parenting issues, tools and tips for safety planning with …

economic issues. The data is based on a questionnaire collected from 587 Portuguese children. The results show that children … understanding of economic issues. Nonetheless, children show interest on economic issues and on learning more about it. The … empirical results reveal that home (family) contextual variables (interaction between children and parents and parents' job) and …

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the reasons that lead marketers to give greater importance to children, how … to explain this increased potential that children have on the existing market and strategies that marketers and companies … issues regarding children as consumers, prescribers and future consumers, which motivate marketers to give children greater …

This paper presents a case of theory-driven evaluation of a development programme for vulnerable children in Romania …. The project targets those children who are in fact ‘invisible’ for governments and society. Finding them has been based on …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

Census data, collected in July 2009, from 27,672 children were used to compare the effectiveness, coverage and efficacy … of three household-based methods for targeting cash transfers to vulnerable children in eastern Zimbabwe: targeting the …-constrained households using dependency ratios. All three methods failed to identify large numbers of children with poor social and …

-old children, participating in a RCT on caries preventive strategies in the Netherlands were asked to provide information on … investing in preventive oral health actions for their children. Despite the fact that parents overall valued oral health for … children's teeth to maintain good oral health for their child. Additionally, they indicated that they were unwilling to visit …

We analyze the effects of a school-based program that offers children an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike … find that being in a prize period increases the riding behavior of participating children by sixteen percent, a large …