Research Digest

What help do parents actually give their children in the labor market? One key advantage is human capital, in the broadest sense. However, parents, when they can, also employ a wide array of [...]

It is well established that parenting influences child behavior at home, but less is known about the associations between parenting and teacher reports of child behavior at school, an environment [...]

Many industrialized societies have experienced increases in life expectancy and in the mean age at first birth. This has likely impacted the lifetime that parents share with their children; i.e., [...]

Providers and health systems may need to work with other parties to directly provide dementia caregiving support and address factors such as neighborhood affordability that particularly affect [...]

These findings suggest large and persistent variation in kin support for single mothers and thus question the assumption of its marginal role in Europe. [Bram Hogendoorn and Juho Härkönen – [...]

The impact on institutionalized children points up the urgency of the need to remove them from institutions and provide support for family and community care in their country. [Human Rights [...]

The analysis includes 2021 data and trends from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which examines health behaviors and experiences among US high school students. [Centers for Disease Control and [...]

Women in Work Index shows progress towards gender equality at work across the OECD has been exceedingly slow over the last 10 years, with a persistent gender pay gap of 14%, down only 2.5 [...]

The coronavirus pandemic has been associated with worsening mental health among people in the United States and around the world. Three years later, Americans have largely returned to normal [...]

The gender pay gap – the difference between the earnings of men and women – has barely closed in the United States in the past two decades. The slow pace at which the gender pay gap has narrowed [...]