In this paper we examine gender differences in the inter-generational persistence of child labor within the context of intra-household resource allocation. We begin by building an intra-household allocation model where fathers and mothers may affect the education investment and the child labor participation of their sons and daughters differently due to differences in the children's human capit...

Ulrich C, Quilici DR, Schlauch KA, Buxton IL. The human uterine smooth muscle S-nitrosoproteome fingerprint in pregnancy, labor, and preterm labor. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 305: C803–C816, 2013. First published August 15, 2013; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00198.2013.—Molecular mechanisms involved in uterine quiescence during gestation and those responsible for induction of labor at term are incomplete...

childtrends.org “Soft skills” are centrally important for human capital development and workforce success. A growing evidence base shows that these qualities rival academic or technical skills in their ability to predict employment and earnings, among other outcomes (Kautz, Heckman, Diris, ter Weel, & Borghans, 2014). As the workplace has modernized around the world, the demand for such skills ...

The goal of this study is to compare the efficacy of natural vaginal progesterone with that of oral nifedipine in treatment of threatened preterm labor.150 women, with singleton pregnancy and threatened preterm labor between 28 to 36 weeks of gestation, were randomly grouped into two, 75 in each group. Group 1: pregnant females who used natural progesterone 200mg twice daily inserted vaginally ...

Placental oxidative stress is a feature of human labor. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) play a key role in cellular stress. We hypothesized that placental expression of the small HSP 27 would be altered during labor and expression would vary in different regions of the placenta. Six women in labor who delivered vaginally and 6 women not in labor, who were delivered by Cesarean section, were recruite...