Children and Youth in Crisis : Protecting and Promoting Human Development in Times of Economic Shocks.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- PART I Introduction and Framing -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Objective of This Volume -- Structure -- Summary -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 A Conceptual Framework -- Overview -- Shocks, Crises, Business Cycles, Recessions, Depressions, and Busts -- The Economics of Human Capital -- Human Development and a Bioecological Model -- Shocks, Transmission Mechanisms, and the Dynamics of Human Development -- Policy Implications of an Integrated Approach -- Notes -- References -- PART II The Empirical Evidence of the Impact of Economic Crises on Children and Youth -- Chapter 3 Aggregate Economic Shocks in Utero and during Early Childhood -- Early Childhood Development: An Introduction -- Shocks, Health, and Nutrition during Early Childhood -- Economic Crises and Early Childhood Cognitive and Socioemotional Development -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Aggregate Economic Shocks during Middle Childhood -- Middle Childhood Development: An Introduction -- Economic Crisis and Schooling during Middle Childhood -- The Long-Term Impacts of Economic Crisis on Cognitive and Socioemotional Developmental Outcomes -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Aggregate Economic Shocks during Adolescence: Transitions, Mental Health, and Behaviors -- Adolescent Development: An Introduction -- Economic Crisis and School-to-Work Transition -- Economic Crisis and Adolescent Mental Health -- Economic Crisis and Risky Adolescent Behavior -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- PART III Policy -- Chapter 6 Policies to Protect and Promote Young People's Development during Crisis -- Introduction to Policies during Economic Crisis -- Moving beyond Traditional Safety Net Programs -- Early Childhood -- Middle Childhood -- Adolescence -- Conclusions -- Notes.

References -- Appendix A The Theory of Human Capital Investment Decisions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix B Measurement and Identification of Aggregate Shocks: Problems of Comparability between Studies -- Note -- References -- Glossary -- Boxes -- 2.1 Short List of Resilience Factors, with Implicated Human Adaptive Systems -- 3.1 Prenatal Health and Development -- 3.2 Biological and Environmental Transactions in Children's Development -- 4.1 Parenting in a Cultural Context and the Family Stress Model -- 4.2 Economic Crisis and Child Labor -- 6.1 Jefes y Jefas de Hogar Desempleados: Argentina's Response to the 2001-02 Financial Crisis -- 6.2 Social Resilience and Human Development -- Figures -- 2.1 A Bioecological Model of Human Development -- 2.2 The Developmental Course of Human Brain Development by Months, Years, and Decades -- 2.3 Distinction between Resilience and Risk Reduction and Protection -- 6.1 A Developmental Approach to Policy during Economic Crisis -- A.1 Private Marginal Benefits and Private Marginal Costs of Human Capital Investments, with Higher and Lower Marginal Benefits -- A.2 Private Marginal Benefits and Private Marginal Costs of Human Capital Investments, with Higher and Lower Marginal Costs -- Tables -- 2.1 Global Incidence of Shocks, Selected Years, 1946-2010 -- 2.2 Stage-Salient Human Developmental Tasks, by Age -- 5.1 Long-Term Effect on Employment of Entering the Labor Market during Poor Economic Conditions in Six Countries: Argentina (1980-2010), Brazil (1978-2002), Chile (1957-2005), Germany (1975-2001), Norway (1993-2000), and the United Kingdom (1981-97) -- 5.1a Less-Educated and Highly Educated Males and Females in High-Income Countries -- 5.1b All Males and Females and Less-Educated and Highly Educated Males and Females in Middle-Income Countries.

5.2 Estimated Duration of Adverse Effects on Employment of Entering the Labor Market during Poor Economic Conditions for Argentina and the United Kingdom -- 6.1 Transmission Mechanisms (Mediators) by Life Stage and System Level -- 6.2 Negative Outcomes by Life Stage: Time of Exposure and Time of Outcome Measured.

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