Age matters

In Due Time: Why Maternal Age Matters

Mothers and newborns in Canada are supported by programs that address their needs from pre-conception to the perinatal period and beyond. Often, these programs target one or more at-risk groups of mothers: those with pre-existing health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension or mental health concerns; women with unhealthy pre-pregnancy weights; Aboriginal women; or women of an age outside th...

Age Matters: Class, Family Formation, and Inequality

Age of acquisition in sport: starting early matters.

Although the age at which a skill is learned (age of acquisition [AoA]) is one of the most studied predictors of success in domains ranging from language to music, very little work has focused on this factor in sports. In order to uncover how the age at which a skill is learned relates to how athletes cognitively represent that skill, we asked a group of skilled golfers who learned to play golf...

Age differences in emotion recognition: the task matters.

OBJECTIVES This study examined the impact of context information on emotion recognition from a life-span developmental perspective. The main prediction was that age-related deficits in emotion recognition will only be evident in context-poor tasks. METHODS A sample of 48 younger (M(age) = 23 years) and 35 older women (M(age) = 70 years) watched 48 film clips, each depicting a female target wh...

Heterogeneity matters : labour productivity differentiated by age and skills Muriel

The data analysis has been completed during the research stay of Malgorzata Wasmer at the Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique in Paris. We would like to thank Didier Blanchet for his hospitality. We would also like to thank Sébastien Roux and Anthony Briant for their fruitful remarks as our work was progressing and to Virginie Régnier for her assistance in the dataset c...