children in the climate change adaptation and mitigation policies? 2. What is the legal and institutional framework of child … research may serve as a tool for the political action of local representatives, children, parents, teachers, and for civil …

A substantial share of the world's children reside in disaster-prone areas and suffer from stunted growth. Child growth … and catch-up in children exposed to comparable earthquakes in utero. Our analysis leverages within cluster or mother … document modest adverse effects on children's height that are more pronounced when earthquakes are more unexpected and higher …

-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … tests, children of Hispanic origin were randomly assigned to take the tests either in Spanish or in English. Therefore, we … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …

Background: The trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated very convincingly because of the absence …. Methods: We use five regression models to estimate the BMI trends of non-Hispanic US-born black and white children and …

bodies responsible for safeguarding children, is the advent of social media, or online social networking. This research … explores the effect of children's digital social networking on their subjective wellbeing. We use a large representative sample … spent chatting on social websites on a number of outcomes which reflect how these children feel about different aspects of …

Great Recession, on children's mental well-being. The Australian experience of the Great Recession represents a unique case … draw on and link data from multiple sources, including a longitudinal cohort study of children, a consumer sentiment survey …

Using longitudinal data for children aged 10-15 years living in England in 2009-2014 we test the hypothesis that income … matters for children’s life satisfaction. The results suggest that children are more satisfied with life the more income their … family has. Income effects are larger the less income the family has and statistically significant for children from the age …

-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …