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Current search: 'Child Development'

  1. Social comparison effects on academic self-concepts - which peers matter most?

    Malte Jansen, Zsófia Boda, and Georg Lorenz

    1. Psychology
    2. Migration
    3. Education
    4. Child Development

  2. Quantity and quality of childcare and children’s educational outcomes

    Jo Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Kirstine Hansen, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Public Policy
    4. Caregiving

  3. Going universal. The impact of free school lunches on child body weight outcomes

    Angus Holford and Birgitta Rabe

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Public Policy
    4. Health

  4. Developing an integrated microsimulation model for the impact of fiscal policies on child health in Europe: the example of childhood obesity in Italy

    Davide Rasella, Lorenzo Richiardi, Nicolai Brachowicz, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Child Development
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Health
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Economic Policy

  5. Coping with school closures: changes in home-schooling during COVID-19

    Emilia Del Bono, Laura Fumagalli, Angus Holford, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Social Groups
    3. Time Use
    4. Education
    5. Child Development
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Health
    9. Life Course Analysis
    10. Social Stratification
    11. Covid 19

  6. Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings: evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden

    Sonia Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Economics
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  7. Three essays on human capital: investments, resilience, and spillovers -PhD thesis-

    Paulino Font-Gilabert

    1. Insurance
    2. Human Capital
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Households
    6. Economics
    7. Public Policy
    8. Childbearing: Fertility
    9. Health

  8. School closures and children’s emotional and behavioural difficulties

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  9. National context, parental socialization, and the varying relationship between religious belief and practice

    David Voas and Ingrid Storm

    1. Religion
    2. Child Development
    3. Societies
    4. Social Attitudes
    5. Sociology Of Households
    6. Social Psychology

  10. New evidence shows how school closures hit children’s mental health hard

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  11. Children will need further help with mental health despite return of schools, study warns

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  12. Stressed pupils 'are more likely to bully and fight': Teachers could face an increase in bad behaviour in class after effect of pandemic on children's mental health, study warns

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  13. Back to school: 'It's nice to see my friends'

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  14. Schools return in England: Boris Johnson hails first steps to freedom

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  15. School closures negatively affected children's mental health, research suggests

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  16. Taking cover: human capital accumulation in the presence of shocks and health insurance

    Paulino Font-Gilabert

    1. Insurance
    2. Area Effects
    3. Geography
    4. Education
    5. Child Development
    6. Households
    7. Poverty
    8. Health

  17. Money matters? Essays on human capital accumulation, occupational choice and worker productivity -PhD thesis-

    Joshua Fullard

    1. Human Capital
    2. Education
    3. Child Development
    4. Labour Market
    5. Labour Economics
    6. Wages And Earnings
    7. Higher Education

  18. Impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy

    Angus Holford and Birgitta Rabe

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Households
    4. Poverty
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Health

  19. Impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy

    Angus Holford and Birgitta Rabe

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Households
    4. Poverty
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Health

  20. Skill formation and the trouble with child non-cognitive skill measures

    Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler, and Ronni Pavan

    1. Human Capital
    2. Education
    3. Child Development

  21. Inequalities in home learning and schools’ provision of distance teaching during school closure of COVID-19 lockdown in the UK

    Sait Bayrakdar and Ayse Guveli

    1. Social Groups
    2. Time Use
    3. Lone Parents
    4. Young People
    5. Education
    6. Child Development
    7. Households
    8. Poverty
    9. Public Policy
    10. Ethnic Groups
    11. Health
    12. Social Stratification
    13. Covid 19

  22. Youth employment, academic performance and labour market outcomes: production functions and policy effects

    Angus Holford

    1. Human Capital
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Labour Market

  23. Maternal investments in children: the role of expected effort and returns

    Sonia Bhalotra, Adeline Delavande, Paulino Font-Gilabert, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Economics
    3. Childbearing: Fertility

  24. Going universal - the impact of free school lunches on child body weight outcomes

    Angus Holford and Birgitta Rabe

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Public Policy
    4. Health

  25. Measuring child socio-economic position in birth cohort research: the development of a novel standardized household income indicator

    Costanza Pizzi, Matteo Richiardi, Marie-Aline Charles, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Households
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Health
    5. Surveys
    6. Social Stratification

  26. An assessment of the national representativeness of new mothers and women of childbearing age in Understanding Society

    Paul Fisher

    1. Child Development
    2. Poverty
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Survey Methodology
    5. Research

  27. Enhancing data around early life in Understanding Society: scientific opportunities and considerations

    Michaela Benzeval

    1. Young People
    2. Child Development
    3. Households
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Survey Methodology
    6. Research
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Surveys
    9. Biology

  28. Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce poverty

    Tine Hufkens, Francesco Figari, Dieter Vandelannoote, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Labour Market
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Caregiving

  29. Ever failed, try again, succeed better: results from a randomized educational intervention on grit

    Sule Alan, Teodora Boneva, and Seda Ertac

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Economics

  30. Sibling spillover effects in school achievement

    Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Households

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