As the movement to capitalize on unique affordances of video games for learning continues to grow, relatively little research in that area has examined how formal features, such as genre and game mechanics, draw and hold children's attention. This study examines which genres children prefer and the reasons why children prefer those genres by reporting on a video game uses and gratifications sur...

Despite the Communist government's campaign to narrow the sexual inequality in China since the 1949 Revolution, male dominance and son preference are still evident in many parts of the country. Using retrospective reports on infant and child mortality from the 1985 and 1987 In-Depth Fertility Surveys in Shaanxi, Liaoning and Guangdong provinces of China, the study examines the effects of this p...

Using data from the 2001 National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Survey, this paper studies the relationship between son preference and induced abortion in rural China during periods with different birth control policies. The paper finds that temporal trends and patterns of variation in induced abortion and sex ratio at birth are fundamentally consistent. Among women with only two chil...

BACKGROUND Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are increasingly used in studies in healthcare research but there is still little empirical evidence for the predictive value of these hypothetical situations in similar real life circumstances. The aim of this paper is to compare the stated preferences in a DCE and the accompanying questionnaire with the revealed preferences of young parents who ha...

This study compared acquisition and preference for two types of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems in three pre-schoolers with autism. Acquisition of requesting behaviour using a picture-exchange system vs a voice-output communication aide (VOCA) was compared in an alternating treatments design. Following acquisition, both ACC systems were simultaneously available and the ...

This paper analyzes child labor in a fully dynamic model with credit constraints. It considers the long-run and short-run effects of an array of policies like lump-sum subsidy, enrollment subsidy, improvement in primary education and variations in loan market parameters. It is shown that some policies that reduce child labor in the long run may lead to an increase in child labor in the short ru...

South Korea was among the first countries to report both an abnormally high sex ratio at birth (SRB) and its subsequent normalization. We examine the role of son preference in driving fertility intentions during a period of declining SRB and consider the contribution of individual characteristics and broader social context to explaining changes in intentions. We employ data from the National Su...

OBJECTIVES To study the influence of population policy and boy preference on the sibling structure, that is, in which order and combinations boys and girls are born into families. DESIGN A population-based survey with a representative sample of new mothers in 2008-2009 in rural China. SETTING Two provinces (Anhui and Shaanxi) where authorisation for a second child was usually given if the f...