BACKGROUND Physical activity declines as children approach puberty. Research has focussed on psychosocial, environmental, and demographic determinants. This paper explores how family and socioeconomic factors are related to children's physical activity. METHODS Seventeen focus groups were conducted with 113, 10-11 year old children from 11 primary schools in Bristol, UK. Focus groups examined...

The Housing Choice Voucher program was created, in part, to help low income households reach a broader range of neighborhoods and schools. Rather than concentrating low income households in designated developments, vouchers allow families to choose their housing units and neighborhoods. In this project we explore whether low income households use the flexibility provided by vouchers to reach ne...

BACKGROUND In response to India's growing tobacco epidemic, strategies are needed to decrease tobacco use among Indian youth, particularly among those who are economically disadvantaged. The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a school-based life-skills tobacco control program for youth of low socio-economic status in Mumbai and the surrounding state of Maharashtra. We hy...

This paper investigates the relationship between changing community context and out-migration in one of today's poor countries, seeking to document the various mechanisms by which infrastructure affects the migratory behavior. We focus on the expansion of social and physical facilities and services near to rural people's homes, including transportation, new markets, employment, schools, health ...

Focus on smart specialization is a key element of regional development strategizing in Ukraine, which, for example, reflected the State Regional Development Strategy 2021-2027. But comparative analysis individual indicators economic EU, USA and China shows that itself not competitive advantage global scale. At same time, researchers note there gap between theory practice basis specialization. A...

The dietary patterns and extent of overweight in 307 urban school going children aged 7 to 15 years representing various socio-economic strata was evaluated at baseline of a 3 year longitudinal study. Dietary habits were recorded through interviewer-administered questionnaires. Height and weight were measured and 8.2% of the children were over-weight or obese. Children from higher socio-economi...

As the Chinese Communist Party prepares for the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the reform and opening policy, China’s state ideology is confronted with challenges from various schools of thought. One of them is the “New Left.” The New Left is characterised by an emphasis on the state power to redress the problems of injustice and other negative effects of privatisation, marketisation an...

The federal Pell Grant Program provides billions of dollars in subsidies to low-income college students to increase affordability and access to higher education. I estimate the economic incidence of these subsidies using regression discontinuity (RD) and regression kink (RK) designs. RK estimates suggest that schools capture Pell Grant aid through price discrimination, while RD estimates imply ...