KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Ten key measures comprise an index of child well-being used to rank states and supplemental data on education, health, and economic conditions for each state. Data from the 2003 KIDS COUNT Data Book...

This study explores the allocation of time, particularly to sleep, among children and adolescents in response to daily solar cycles. Utilizing a dataset of over 50,000 time-use diaries from two Australian cohorts spanning 16 years and employing an individual fixed effects estimator, we uncover a...

The purpose of this article is to identify to what extent there is a causal relationship between wealth and non-cognitive skills for children in Colombia. This article contributes to the existing literature of skills formation in three ways. First, methodological shortcomings of previous works...

European maternity legislation is more generous than that afforded pregnant workers in the United States and may, in part, may explain the higher US infant mortality rate. This coupled with older women and more non-married women having children has increased interest in the health effects of job...

We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three...

Development of social services in Bulgaria is predetermined by the policies of last decades of the last century and is characterized by a number of features arising from the difficult transition to a market economy and modern challenges of dynamic social and economic environment. Social services...

Mental health is clearly an integral part of health. It is part of an individual's capacity to lead a happy and fulfilling life. As a form of child maltreatment psychological abuse can have a significant impact upon the mental health. The current study examined the influencing role of...

Background: Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is a safe motherhood intervention encompassing conditional cash transfer scheme initiated under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) of India. Objective: A rapid appraisal was conducted to assess selected maternal and child health (MCH) practices among...

This Paper analyzes the budget for children in India. It include three broad areas namely percentage of Union Budget from 2000-01 to 2014-15, Sectorial Allocation and Statement related to Health, education, Protection and development. There is a significant improvement in all the sectors...

In recent years in Bulgaria the type of institutional care for children at risk is changing giving priority to family and close to family environment. The will to implement this process of all involved responsible agencies, institutions and nongovernmental organizations has found expression in a...