Studies

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 [...]

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 [...]