1. EPIUnit Instituto de Saúde Pública. Universidade do Porto. Porto. Portugal. 2. Departamento de Epidemiologia Clínica, Medicina Preditiva e Saúde Pública. Faculdade de Medicina. Universidade do Porto. Porto. Portugal.  Autor correspondente: Mariana Amorim. [email protected] Recebido: 18 de Julho de 2014 Aceite: 15 de Dezembro de 2014 | Copyright © Ordem dos Médicos 2015 Mariana AMOR...

Media use has changed considerably during the past five years and earlier research has produced contradictory results on how media use links to children’s psychosocial factors.This study charts the access to and use of several media technologies among 825 Norwegian schoolchildren between 10 and 12 years of age. The questionnaire contained items concerning children’s self-concept, parental monit...

In this paper we merge individual census data, individual patenting data, and individual IQ data from Finnish Defence Force to look at the probability of becoming an innovator and at the returns to invention. On the former, we find that: (i) it is strongly correlated with parental income; (ii) this correlation is greatly decreased when we control for parental education and child IQ. Turning to ...

Provides an overview of some of the findings of a recently completed study of school choice in 33 local schools which may be indicative of the effect of an increase in the marketisation of schools. Since it is unlikely that debate over parental choice can be settled by theoretical argument alone and it may also be too early to understand the full implications of the relevant recent government r...

We develop and estimate an equilibrium model of ability tracking. A school allocates students into tracks based on their ability and then chooses trackspecific inputs to test score production. Parents choose parental effort in response. We estimate the model using data from the ECLS-K. We use the estimated model to quantify the effects of allowing ability tracking, making proficiency standards ...

Recent legislation in the Netherlands requires that children should play a part in decision making regarding their own health care. So far, however, little attention has been given to the child’s participation in medical interviews. In order to get a grip on aspects of asymmetry and control in doctor–parent–child communication, the present study explores the turntaking patterns in this triad at...

In 2007, Germany enacted a radical new parental leave benefit scheme that grants parents 67 percent of their previous income, and includes two “daddy months.” In this paper, we use data from the German Microcensus for the period 1999 to 2009 to explore how this reform has changed fathers’ use of parental leave. We find strong overall increase in parental leave usage among men. Two groups of men...

Parental protection of eggs represents one of the most basic forms of parental care. Theory suggests that even such basic parental investment represents a trade-off between current offspring survival and future reproductive success. However, few studies have quantified the underlying costs and benefits of parental care for marked individuals across an entire lifetime. I marked and followed 370 ...

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I use the unanticipated reform in 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By using the German Mikrozensus 2010, I find that the reform significantly affected the timing of higher-order births in the first three years...