Innocenti Research Briefs Children’s Involvement in Housework: Is there a case of gender stereotyping? Evidence from the International Survey of Children's Well-Being AUTHOR(S) Zlata Bruckauf; Gwyther Rees Published: 2017 Innocenti Research Briefs Evidence from national studies in developed and developing countries suggests that girls spend more time on housework. The most common explanation relates to behaviour modelling as a mechanism of gender role reproduction: children form habits based on parental models. This brief shows that participation in household chores is an essential part of children’s lives. There is a common pattern of a gender gap between boys’ and girls’ daily participation in housework across a diverse range of socio-economic and cultural contexts in 12 high-income countries. The persistence of this gap points to gender stereotyping – a form of gender role reproduction within a family that potentially can reinforce inequalities over the life-course. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 3 | Thematic area: Child well-being, Child Work and Labour | Tags: child well-being, gender equality, household surveys, households, learning, socialization of children × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Zlata Bruckauf; Gwyther Rees 2017 Children’s Involvement in Housework: Is there a case of gender stereotyping? Evidence from the International Survey of Children's Well-Being . , pp. 3.
Innocenti Working Papers Inequalities in Adolescent Health and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study AUTHOR(S) Yekaterina Chzhen; Zlata Bruckauf; Kwok Ng; Daria Pavlova; Torbjorn Torsheim; Margarida Gaspar de Matos Published: 2016 Innocenti Working Papers International studies of inequalities in adolescent health tend to focus on the socio-economic gradient in average outcomes rather than their dispersion within countries. Although understanding the extent to which differences in health are related to socio-economic disadvantage is important, focusing exclusively on socio-economic status risks neglecting differences in the distribution of health outcomes within and between countries. To fill this research gap, this study analyses variation in the extent of inequality in the lower half of the distribution in five indicators of adolescent health and well-being – health symptoms, physical activity, healthy eating, unhealthy eating, and life satisfaction – across EU and/or OECD countries that took part in the latest cycle of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 44 | Thematic area: Adolescents, Health, Industrialized Countries, Social Policies | Tags: adolescent health, household surveys, inequality, physical development × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Yekaterina Chzhen; Zlata Bruckauf; Kwok Ng; Daria Pavlova; Torbjorn Torsheim; Margarida Gaspar de Matos 2016 Inequalities in Adolescent Health and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study. , pp. 44.
Innocenti Working Papers Poverty and Children’s Cognitive Trajectories: Evidence from the United Kingdom Millennium Cohort Study AUTHOR(S) Zlata Bruckauf; Yekaterina Chzhen Published: 2016 Innocenti Working Papers Existing evidence is inconclusive on whether a socio-economic gradient in children’s cognitive ability widens, narrows or remains stable over time and there is little research on the extent of ‘cognitive mobility’ of children who had a poor start in life compared to their peers. Using data from five sweeps of the United Kingdom (UK) Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) at the ages of 9 months, 3 years, 5 years, 7 years and 11 years, this paper explores the cognitive ability trajectory of children in the bottom decile of the distribution at a given age, and the factors that drive or hinder their progress relative to their peers. The paper analyses children’s risks of moving in and out of the bottom decile of the cognitive ability distribution. The findings indicate a relatively high level of cognitive mobility between ages 3 and 11, especially in the pre-school period (between ages 3 and 5), with children from income-poor households more likely to get ‘trapped’ in the bottom of the age-specific cognitive ability distribution. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 32 | Thematic area: Health, Industrialized Countries, Social Policies | Tags: cognitive development, household surveys, poverty, social surveys × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Zlata Bruckauf; Yekaterina Chzhen 2016 Poverty and Children’s Cognitive Trajectories: Evidence from the United Kingdom Millennium Cohort Study. , pp. 32.
Innocenti Working Papers Child Poverty Dynamics and Income Mobility in Europe AUTHOR(S) Yekaterina Chzhen; Emilia Toczydlowska; Sudhanshu Handa Published: 2016 Innocenti Working Papers While a long-standing literature analyses cross-country variation in the incidence of child poverty in rich countries in a single year, less is known about children’s individual movements into and out of low household income over a period of time. Using longitudinal data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), the present study addresses this gap by analysing both income mobility and child poverty dynamics in the EU during the recent economic crisis. It finds that income growth among children has been generally pro-poor but not sufficiently so to put a brake on the increasing income inequality. There is substantial heterogeneity among the EU-SILC countries in the rates of child poverty entry and exit. Scandinavian countries tend to combine lower exit and entry rates, while Southern and Eastern European countries tend to have higher rates of both poverty exit and entry. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 34 | Thematic area: Child Poverty | Tags: child poverty, household surveys, income distribution × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Yekaterina Chzhen; Emilia Toczydlowska; Sudhanshu Handa 2016 Child Poverty Dynamics and Income Mobility in Europe. , pp. 34.
Innocenti Working Papers Child Deprivation, Multidimensional Poverty and Monetary Poverty in Europe AUTHOR(S) Chris De Neubourg; Yekaterina Chzhen; Gill Main; Bruno Martorano; Leonardo Menchini; Jonathan Bradshaw Published: 2012 Innocenti Working Papers The paper focuses on child deprivation in Europe and studies the degree to which it is experienced by children in 29 countries using a child specific deprivation scale. The paper discusses the construction of a child deprivation scale and estimates a European Child Deprivation Index for the 29 countries using 14 specific child related variables made available by the child module of the EU-SILC 2009 survey. The 29 countries are ranked according to the degree of child deprivation: the results show considerable differences between the countries. The (non-)overlap between child deprivation and child monetary poverty is considerable but limited. In general the results indicate where policy interventions can produce improvements. (REVISED VERSION) + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 48 | Thematic area: Social Policies | Tags: child well-being, household surveys, income, poverty × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Chris De Neubourg; Yekaterina Chzhen; Gill Main; Bruno Martorano; Leonardo Menchini; Jonathan Bradshaw 2012 Child Deprivation, Multidimensional Poverty and Monetary Poverty in Europe. , pp. 48.