Research Digest

A fundamental driver of household growth is population growth. The population residing in households grew by only 7.5% in the last decade, the slowest population growth since the 1930s. [Richard [...]

This pandemic has created an increased urgency to strengthen mental health systems in most countries. [Elsevier, 8 October 2021.] READ MORE

On key economic outcomes, single adults at prime working age increasingly lag behind those who are married or cohabiting. [Richard Fry and Kim Parker – Pew Research Center, 5 October 2021.] [...]

Socioeconomic gaps in child development open up early, with associated disparities in parental investments in children. Understanding the drivers of these disparities is key to designing [...]

The pandemic may represent the tip of a mental health iceberg – an iceberg we have ignored for far too long. This study examines child, adolescent and caregiver mental health. [UNICEF, October [...]

Kids from higher-income and better educated families spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others, but they also tend to receive higher quality care compared to children [...]

This paper considers the liberal case for explicitly ‘pronatalist’ policies to increase the birth rate in the UK. Should the UK join 28% of countries that have adopted explicitly pronatalist [...]

Study carried out in Israel, following the pandemic’s initial outbreak and during the resulting enforced quarantine, confining parents and children to their homes. [Keren Hanetz-Gamliel, Sigal [...]

This qualitative study provides insight into the role of parents’ self-interest in digital media use of children in different age groups. [Suzanne M. Geurts, Ina M. Koning, Helen Vossen & [...]

Early child development has been influenced directly and indirectly by the COVID- 19 pandemic, and these effects are exacerbated in contexts of poverty. [Helen O. Pitchik et al – Child [...]