Children, social welfare, education

Do children from welfare families obtain less education?

In this study, we analyzed whether parents' receipt of welfare affects children's educational attainment in early adulthood, independent of its effect through changing family income. We used data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics with information on parents' welfare receipt over the first 15 years of childhood. Cross-sectional results show that greater exposure to welfare is significantly...

Social Welfare

generally. j j Social Welfare, like Social Medicine, will fix its own standards, have its own objectives and develop its own techniques *n achieving the objectives. It cannot follow the Western standards, objectives and techniques. Asia in general and India in particular have an outlook different from the outlook of European cultures. It is different but not inferior by any means. The general i...

Value of Children and the social production of welfare

BACKGROUND The paper describes the origins of the Value of Children (VOC) approach to the cross-cultural research on fertility behavior around the Pacific Rim, and critically discusses its shortcomings at this stage. OBJECTIVE The paper then demonstrates how the approach derives its theoretical coherence from the theory of social production functions, making reference to empirical evidence. RES...

Effectiveness of Mindfulness and Metacognition Education on Social Welfare and Life Expectancy of Nurses

Introduction: Nurses have a key role in providing health services, so promoting their social well-being and life expectancy is associated with improving in job performance. The present study was done with the aim of investigation the effectiveness of mindfulness and metacognition education on social welfare and life expectancy of nurses. Methods: in this quasi-experimental research with pretest...

Quadratic Social Welfare Functions