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Current search: 'Child Development'

  1. Maternal separation in childhood and hair cortisol concentrations in late adulthood

    Kristopher Bevan and Meena Kumari

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Child Development
    4. Family Formation And Dissolution
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Biology

  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. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: home schooling

    Michaela Benzeval, Magda Borkowska, Jonathan Burton, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Time Use
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Child Development
    6. Households
    7. Household Economics
    8. Health
    9. Covid 19

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. Sibling spillover effects in school achievement

    Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Households

  28. How did universal infant free school meals affect children's bodyweight?

    Angus Holford and Birgitta Rabe

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

  29. Essays on the economics of education and gender -PhD thesis-

    Ipek Mumcu

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Economics

  30. How do parents respond to OFSTED reports?

    Ellen Greaves, Iftikhar Hussain, Birgitta Rabe, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Households
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy

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