predominant assumption that behaviour and weight is a choice made by children, or their parents. Copyright Springer Science … measure parental resource constraints. The aim of this study is to examine the heterogeneous effects of children’s (or their … behaviour and parental socioeconomic background, a more complete but more complex picture arises. Our findings challenge the …

This paper examines multidimensional poverty among children in Afghanistan using the Alkire-Foster method. Several … previous studies have underlined the need to separate children from their adult nexus when studying poverty and treat them … and to be what children themselves value and have reason to value. The case of Afghanistan is particularly relevant as …

This study investigated how family context affect poverty disparities between young children of immigrants from the … Mainland China and children of local families whose parents were born in Hong Kong using 2006 bicensus data. 12,609 and 12 …,753 children of immigrant and local families were included in our data analyses. We find higher child poverty rates in immigrant …

poverty to classify children and their households into four groups, analyse their movements in and out of poverty, and explore … more detail, looking at the interplay between the progress or decline of households and that of children within those … and 3 (2002–2009), these changes were not always beneficial to children and did not reach nearly 1 in 10 households …

The Early Development Instrument (EDI) is a population measure and an indicator of children’s developmental health … analyse the psychometric properties of EDI-Sweden. Data about 116 5-year-old children were collected at ten preschools in two …

Empirical analyses of the determinants of life satisfaction routinely include the number of children as one of the … socio demographic controls, without explicitly considering that, for a given household income, more children imply a lower … level of income per family member. The variable “number of children” then often attracts a negative or insignificant …