Parents make many decisions that involve a tradeoff between the amount of time and material resources they provide to their children. In this paper I examine to what degree additional family income can compensate for a decrease in parent-child time in terms of child outcomes. I use within-family variation in the amount of parental time and family income that children receive. Parents generally ...

Three hundred and five traditional college students and 159 baby boomers (40–55 years old) in China participated in the study with Kogan’s Attitude toward Old People [Kogan (1961) Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 62(1), 44–54] being used. Results from ANOVA showed overall, baby boomers held more positive attitudes toward older people than college students. There was a significant inte...

Feeding practices refer generally to meet nutritional and immunological needs of the baby at different stages of child growth. A study of feeding practices was carried out on a sample of 100 infants in the age group of 5 months to 2 years. The results have revealed that factors like income level and caste of the family, had direct bearing on these practices. Caste was found to have direct impac...

The total fertility rate in South Korea has consistently declined from its 2.1 replacement level in 1983 to its current level of 1.23 in 2012. From 2005 to 2010, the government implemented its first pronatalist set of policies to encourage people to have more children. Currently, fertility grants are provided at a provincial level, widely varying in their amounts and qualifications. These prona...

This paper uses variation induced by mass layoffs and firm closings to explore the intergenerational effects of family income shocks. Previous studies have argued that mass layoffs and firm closings can be thought of as exogenous employment shocks. Using a Canadian panel of administrative data that follows over 100,000 father-child pairs from 1978 to 1999, and includes detailed information abou...

The authors examine cohort trends in childhood income volatility among U.S. children born between 1970 and 1990. In contrast to previous studies that focused mainly on period trends, the adopt a cohort-life-course perspective measure children’s exposure from birth age 17, which provides more adequate account of economic environment during early life stages. Using data Panel Study Income Dynamic...

Data from the 1971 to 1972 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were used to estimate myopia prevalence rates for persons in the United States between the ages of 12 and 54 years. When persons were classified by the refractive status of their right eye, 25% were myopic. Significantly lower prevalence rates were found for male subjects than for female subjects and for blacks than for...

Background: One of the most important duties of a family physician is primary health care. The family doctor plan is one of the developmental measures to provide easy and low-cost access for patients to health care centers. The family doctor and her team are fully responsible for the health of the individuals and families covered. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess the satisfaction o...