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Sports and Child Development [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra ...
Andreas Steinmayr +2 more
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Child Care Subsidies and Child Development [PDF]
Economics of Education Review, 2008 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 ...
Herbst, Chris M., Tekin, Erdal
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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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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 +2 more
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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. +2 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2021 Blackpool is one of the most deprived Local Authority (LA) areas in England; in April 2015 the Blackpool Better Start (BBS) Partnership was allocated £45 million over 10 years from the Big Lottery Fund (BLF) as one of five ‘A Better Start’ initiative ...
C. F. Mills +3 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2014 This study was designed to ascertain the relationship between visual attention for social information and oxytocin (OT) levels in Japanese preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Takashi X. Fujisawa +10 more
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Successful endoscopic surgical treatment of pleuroperitoneal communication in two infant cases
Surgical Case Reports, 2021 Background Pleuroperitoneal communication (PPC) is an uncommon, but potentially life-threatening complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD). If a fistula does not close with conservative treatment, surgical repair is required.
Teizaburo Mori +11 more
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