2021 US STATE TRENDS IN CHILD WELL-BEING
The pandemic has brought millions of children more face-to-face with challenges ranging from lost health insurance and bare pantries to the threat of homelessness due to eviction or foreclosure. [...]
Parental Buffering of Stress in the Time of COVID-19
Parents who engaged in higher levels of emotion coaching of children’s negative emotions and who maintained more stable home routines were more effectively able to buffer the effects of stress on [...]
For a better future for children and young people, we need to innovate
Children and young people need us to support them as the agents of change in their own lives. [Henrietta H. Fore – World Economic Forum, 11 January 2022.] READ MORE
Work-Life Balance Is More Important Than Compensation in 2022
In search of flexibility and autonomy, knowledge workers say the ability to be their own boss is a main driver for joining the freelance economy. [Paro News, 25 January 2022.] READ MORE
The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity
This study demonstrates the causal impact of a poverty reduction intervention on early childhood brain activity. [Sonya V. Troller-Renfreea et al. – PNAS, 1 February 2022.] READ MORE
Do Social Beliefs About Men’s Roles in the Family Matter?
Evidence on the relationship between fathers’ labor market outcomes and number of children. [Anna Baranowska-Rataj & Anna Matysiak – Feminist Economics, 20 January 2022.] READ MORE
India’s lessons from Chinese demography
It has a much younger workforce whose participation in the labour market is far lower than the level in China. [The Economic Times, 22 January 2022.] READ MORE
The Role of Childcare Challenges in the US Jobs Market Recovery During the COVID-19 Pandemic
How much of the overall decline in employment between the beginning of 2020 and 2021 can be explained by excess job loss among parents of young children, and mothers specifically? [Jason Furman, [...]
The pandemic generation
Child-development researchers are investigating whether the pandemic is shaping early brain development and behaviour. [Melinda Wenner Moyer – Nature, 13 January 2022.] READ MORE
China: High time to lower costs to boost births
Because of the declining birth rate, China may, sooner than expected, enter a period of an aged society with shrinking births, as well as negative population growth. [Qu Xiaobo – China [...]
