Research Digest

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 [...]

The unprecedented circumstances brought by the pandemic have created a strong focus on flexible working and wellbeing in workplaces across the UK and sparked local and national debates on the [...]

Strong social-emotional skills have been found to impact children’s development and later success. [David Hansen, Kelsey McCoy – Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families [...]

Children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic. [Sean CL Deoni, Jennifer Beauchemin, [...]

Family responsibilities constrain women’s publication productivity according to the national context. [Di Di, Robert A. Thomson Jr. and Elaine Howard Ecklund – Socius, August 2021.]   [...]

Research led by Stanford education professor Jelena Obradović finds that too much parental involvement when children are focused on an activity can undermine behavioral development. [Krysten [...]

Evidence on the mass social experiment in working from home driven by the pandemic: better-than-expected experiences, new investments in physical and human capital, greatly diminished stigma [...]