BACKGROUND The association between socioeconomic position and diet in early childhood has mainly been addressed based on maternal education and household income. We aimed to assess the influence of a variety of social factors from different socio-ecological levels (parents, household and child-care) on multi-time point dietary patterns identified from 2 to 5 y. METHOD This study included 974 ...

The goal of this paper is to address whether and how the changing family sizes of cohorts born before and after the demographic transition are associated with increasing schooling in Brazil. Multivariate analyses of nationally representative data demonstrate that, although a higher proportion of adolescents born after the demographic transition live in smaller families, they also suffer a great...

We considered the role of orthography and task-related processing mechanisms in the activation of morphologically related complex words during bilingual word processing. So far, it has only been shown that such morphologically related words (i.e., morphological family members) are activated through the semantic and morphological overlap they share with the target word. In this study, we investi...

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Recent theories of the origins of modern growth stress an improvement in human capital through reduced fertility and more intensive investment in the nurturing and education of children. But it is hard to directly test the proposition that reducing family sizes improves the "quality" of children in the modern world. What tests have been done have produced few positive signs of an association. U...