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Current search: 'Child Development'

  1. 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

  2. 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

  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. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Sibling spillover effects in school achievement

    Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Households

  9. 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

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

    Ipek Mumcu

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Economics

  11. 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

  12. Parental responses to information about school quality: evidence from linked survey and administrative data

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

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

  13. Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce child poverty: an adequate strategy?

    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

  14. Written evidence submitted by Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex (EYI0055) [House of Commons Science and Technology Committee: Evidence-based early years intervention]

    1. Young People
    2. Child Development
    3. Public Policy
    4. Life Course Analysis

  15. The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment

    Bernhard Schmidpeter

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households
    5. Unemployment
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Life Course Analysis

  16. Female employment and child inequality

    Susan Harkness

    1. Lone Parents
    2. Child Development
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households
    5. Poverty
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings

  17. Single motherhood and child development in the UK

    Susan Harkness and Mariña Fernandez Salgado

    1. Lone Parents
    2. Child Development

  18. Housing: an under-explored influence on children’s well-being and becoming

    Amy Clair

    1. Young People
    2. Child Development
    3. Well Being
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Housing Market

  19. Does postpartum depression predict emotional and cognitive difficulties in 11 year olds?

    Maria Elena Komodromou

    1. Psychology
    2. Child Development
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Sociology Of Households
    6. Social Psychology

  20. Genetic determinants of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration during pregnancy and type 1 diabetes in the child

    Maija E. Miettinen, Melissa Smart, Leena Kinnunen, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Science And Technology
    3. Child Development
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Health
    6. Biology
    7. Genetics

  21. The relationship between socioeconomic status, family income, and measures of muscular and cardiorespiratory fitness in Colombian schoolchildren

    Gavin R. H. Sandercock, Felipe Lobelo, Jorge E. Correa-Bautista, et al.

    1. Area Effects
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Health
    7. Sport
    8. Social Stratification
    9. Social Mobility

  22. Parental and child time investments and the cognitive development of adolescents

    Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Monfardini, and Cheti Nicoletti

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

  23. Transmission of risk preferences from mothers to daughters

    Sule Alan, Nazli Baydar, Teodora Boneva, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Child Development
    3. Economics
    4. Social Behaviour

  24. 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. Labour Market
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Social Policy

  25. Early maternal time investment and early child outcomes

    Emilia Del Bono, Marco Francesconi, Yvonne Kelly, et al.

    1. Time Use
    2. Child Development
    3. Social Psychology

  26. Public health issues in India and UK: child mortality and survival expectations -PhD thesis-

    Seetha Menon

    1. Older People
    2. Child Development
    3. Health

  27. Infant health and longevity: evidence from a historical intervention in Sweden

    Sonia Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, and Therese Nilsson

    1. Demography
    2. Child Development
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis

  28. Universal pre-school education: the case of public funding with private provision

    Jo Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Sandra McNally, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Economics

  29. Mitigating the gender gap in the willingness to compete: evidence from a randomized field experiment

    Sule Alan and Seda Ertac

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

  30. Maternal depression, parenting behaviors and child development: evidence from a randomized control trial

    Baranov Victoria, Sonia Bhalotra, and Joanna Maselko

    1. Psychology
    2. Social Development
    3. Child Development
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Well Being
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Social Psychology

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