This paper aims to identify the indirect effects of preschool on intra-household variables related maternal labor supply, older sibling’s domestic, productive work, and demand for education siblings. We used Constitutional Amendment that makesmandatory attendance from 4 years old onwards as identification strategy, we this discontinuity perform an RDD fuzzy estimation. Results show child’s at i...

This study examined the link between sibling relationships and children's social adjustment by comparing twin siblings and siblings with different ages (singleton siblings}, and clarified the role of reciprocity in sibling relationships on children's social development. Mothers of 58 monozygotic twin pairs, 48 dizygotic twin pairs, and 86 singleton sibling pairs reported their children's siblin...

OBJECTIVE Examine general emotion expression and sibling-parent emotion communication among Latino and non-Latino white (NLW) siblings of children with intellectual disabilities (ID) and matched comparisons. METHODS 200 siblings (ages 8-15 years) completed the newly developed Sibling-Parent Emotion Communication Scale and existing measures of general emotion expression and psychosocial functi...

Psychosocial adjustment in siblings of children with autism whose families were using a home-based, applied behavior analysis (ABA) program was compared to that of siblings in families who were not using any intensive autism intervention. Data gathered from parents, siblings and teachers indicated that siblings in ABA families experienced neither significant drawbacks nor benefits in terms of t...

Abstract Research on siblings of children with developmental and physical disabilities has emphasized negative influences siblings’ mental health. Yet, such may be more prosocial compared without disabilities, due to care responsibilities their experiences brother’s or sister’s disability. We behavior between autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n = 47), ( 42), 44) using a multi-informant approach (i...

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia aggregates in families and accurate diagnoses are essential for genetic studies of schizophrenia. In this study, we investigated whether siblings of patients with schizophrenia can be identified as free of any psychotic disorder using only register information. We also analyzed the emergence of psychotic disorders among siblings of patients with schizophrenia during sev...

BACKGROUND Epidemiologic evidence indicates that risk of Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) in young adults is associated with correlates of delayed exposure to infection during childhood. In contrast, HL among children and older adults may be associated with earlier childhood infection. This study examines the associations of HL risk with having older or younger siblings. METHODS We conducted a case-co...