Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of wellbeing? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead effects. We conclude that there...

The amount of pain that had been experienced by 1000 women during vaginal delivery of a live child was determined by interview within 48 hours of delivery. Patients had been offered a choice of analgesia, and 536 had received epidural analgesia: pain relief was greatest in this group, just over half having had a painless labour. The duration of pain was also reduced by a third in this group eve...

Preterm birth is the most important single determinant of adverse infant outcome, in terms of both survival and quality of life. Although preterm birth is defined as being before 37 completed weeks, most mortality and morbidity is experienced by babies born before 34 weeks. Prevention and treatment of preterm labour is important, not as an end in itself, but as a means of reducing adverse event...

New regulations to improve the quality of early childhood education and care came into force in Australia in 2012. Using a simultaneous, structural model of labour supply and child care demand we predict the effects on the labour supply of partnered women, on demand for child care and on household finances for two-parent households in Australia. Using estimated cost impacts of this new National...

Abstract ‘Governments should advertise more about children rights as well make regular check-ups on homes and workplaces to ensure are not doing child labour or unfairly paid.’ (Latin America/Caribbean).

Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso’s BRIGHT Project Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT substantiall...

Until recently, child protection focus has mostly been on individual protection problems, such as child trafficking, child labour and sexual abuse. The focus on different issues has contributed greatly to the protection of children and much has been learnt about what makes good child protection work. However, this approach has not been without its costs. Many children face multiple protection p...

This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on children’s enrolment and gender, are considered. Results show that boys’ enrolment increases in all four scenarios, whereas girls’ enrolment incre...

Abstract Child labour is a global issue which creates need for evidence-based interventions such as cash and in-kind transfers. However, there limited evidence about the effect of transfers on child labour, impeding policy development. We address this gap by examining impacts an unconditional transfer, nation-wide subsidised rice program, schooling using longitudinal household survey data from ...

Case Reprts Cae 1. R.T. was born on July 29, 1947, of healthy parents. On July 18, 1947, antenatalexaminationshowed that the foetal heart was slow andiregular. Amurmurwas audible and it was thought to be a ' funic souffle.' The irregular pulse was interpreted as evidence of foetal dises, and on July 26, 1947, the membranes werepunctured to induce labour. The child was born three days later afte...