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Sports and Child Development [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
The role of curricular activities for the formation of education, health and behavioural outcomes has been widely studied. Yet, the role of extra-curricular activities has received little attention. This study analyzes the effect of participation in sports clubs-one of the most popular extra-curricular activities among children.
Christina Felfe, Michael Lechner, Andreas Steinmayr   +2 more
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Breastfeeding and child development [PDF]

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021
We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children's development in the first seven years of life, for a sample of births of low-educated mothers.
Emla Fitzsimons, Marcos Vera-Hernandez
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Child care subsidies and child development [PDF]

Economics of Education Review, 2008
Abstract Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage parents to purchase high-quality child care.
Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin
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Decreased grey matter volumes in unaffected mothers of individuals with autism spectrum disorder reflect the broader autism endophenotype

Scientific Reports, 2021
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with an early onset and a strong genetic origin. Unaffected relatives may present similar but subthreshold characteristics of ASD.
Kyung-min An, Takashi Ikeda, Tetsu Hirosawa, Ken Yaoi, Yuko Yoshimura, Chiaki Hasegawa, Sanae Tanaka, Daisuke N. Saito, Mitsuru Kikuchi   +8 more
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Poverty and Child Development [PDF]

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 1968
SUMMARYThe effects of poverty on child development are looked at by reference to other social indices, such as the statistical returns of the Registrar General. These effects begin before birth with higher rates among the poor of still‐birth, abortion, prematurity, perinatal mortality and the risk of congenital malformations.
S, Yudkin, G, Yudkin
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A focus on child development [PDF]

Science, 2014
By September 2014, the United Nations (UN) Open Working Group will present its final report on the Sustainable Development Goals to the UN Secretary General and President of the General Assembly, who will finalize these goals by September 2015. Because these goals (the successors to the Millennium Development Goals) will guide global action through ...
Karlee L, Silver, Peter A, Singer
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Child Care Quality and Child Development [PDF]

, 2017
Development in early childhood predicts schooling and labor market outcomes in adulthood. In this paper we use a fixed effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor, and problem solving skills of infants and toddlers.
María Caridad Araujo, Marta Dormal, Norbert Schady   +2 more
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Avoidance of Hen's Egg Based on IgE Levels Should Be Avoided for Children With Hen's Egg Allergy

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021
Background: Although hen's egg (HE) allergy was thought to be usually resolved by late childhood, majority of HE allergy patients with a high level of egg white (HEW)-specific IgE could not acquire tolerance for HE by age 8 years.Objective: The aim is to
Yoshitsune Miyagi, Yoshitsune Miyagi, Kiwako Yamamoto-Hanada, Hiroya Ogita, Tomoyuki Kiguchi, Yusuke Inuzuka, Kenji Toyokuni, Koji Nishimura, Makoto Irahara, Fumi Ishikawa, Miori Sato, Mayako Saito-Abe, Yumiko Miyaji, Shigenori Kabashima, Tatsuki Fukuie, Ichiro Nomura, Yukihiro Ohya   +16 more
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Income and child development

Children and Youth Services Review, 2009
We examine how income is associated with the home environments and the cognitive and behavioral development of pre-school children using data from a birth cohort study of children born at the end of the 20th century. Lower-income 3-year-old children are more likely than wealthier children to live in homes with inadequate physical environments and to ...
Berger, Lawrence M., Paxson, Christina, Waldfogel, Jane   +2 more
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Paternal retrieval behavior regulated by brain estrogen synthetase (aromatase) in mouse sires that engage in communicative interactions with pairmates

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2015
Parental behaviors involve complex social recognition and memory processes and interactive behavior with children that can greatly facilitate healthy human family life.
Shirin eAkther, Zhiqi eHuang, Mingkun eLiang, Jing eZhong, Azam A Fakhrul, Teruko eYuhi, Olga eLopatina, Alla B. Salmina, Mie eMatsuo, Shigeru eYokoyama, Chiharu eHigashida, Takahiro eTsuji, Haruhiro eHigashida   +12 more
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