This paper relaxes the single factor model of educational mobility and analyzes heterogeneous effects of family background on children’s education in rural China, with a focus on market reform and non-farm occupations. We use data on three generations in rural China spanning preand post-reform periods. Evidence from a battery of econometric approaches shows that the influence of family backgrou...

OBJECTIVES To determine what children know about preventing dog bites and to identify parental desires for dog bite prevention education. STUDY DESIGN This cross-sectional study sampled 5- to 15-year-olds and their parents/guardians presenting to a pediatric emergency department with nonurgent complaints or dog bites. The parent/guardian-child pairs completed surveys and knowledge-based simul...

Talking about sexuality has never been easy in most Namibians cultures and it seems that most parents feel uncomfortable and embarrassed to talk openly with their children about sexuality. They do not participate in the sexuality education of their children, because they believe they are unable to provide quality and adequate sexuality information due to their lack of knowledge about human sexu...

BACKGROUND Selecting appropriate controls for studies of genetic variation in case series is important. The two major candidates involve the use of blood donors or a random sample of the population. METHODS We compare and contrast the two different populations of controls for studies of genetic variation using data from parents enrolled in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (...

In the present study, 56 chronic alcoholics were compared with 56 controls with no excessive drinking habits, all of them male. The drinking habits of their parents were studied, as were parental rearing, dyadic relations with the spouses, attachment to significant people, and the education they gave to their own children. It was noted that the alcoholics' parents had heavier drinking habits an...

We provide a new explanation for the narrowing and reversal of the gender education gap. We assume that parents maximize the full income of their children and that males have an additional income, independently of education. This additional income biases preferences towards sons and implies that females have relative advantage in producing income through education. When the returns to human cap...

Aim The aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of a prospectively conducted interactive 5-day education programme based on Düsseldorf model on glycated haemoglobin (A1C), and total daily dose of insulin in type 1 diabetes patients. Methods A total of 67 type 1 diabetes patients was analysed; mean age of 11±0.68 years, 43 females and 24 males. The programme was led by a trained team of diabe...

Parental involvement in the education of handicapped children has been mandated with the passage of P.L. 94-142, The Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Recent research, however, has indicated that often parents are not active decision-makers in the development of the individualized education program or IEP (Gilliam, 1979; Goldstein, Strickland, Turnbull, & Curry, 1980). The purpose of ...

1117 Sleep Education Program for Preschool Families—Wilson et al. INTRODUCTION Children require adequate sleep duration for optimal health, growth, and development,1 and meta-analytic data confirm the adverse effect of insufficient sleep on cognition and behavior.2 Preschoolers, generally age 3 to 5 y, are often reported to have insufficient sleep duration,3,4 which in turn is associated with l...

Parental school involvement and satisfaction are unstudied in families raising a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To fill this gap, the current study utilized a national sample of families (N  =  8,978) from the 2007 Parent and Family Involvement in Education survey ( U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2006-2007 ). Parents of children with ASDs ...