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 Euro

This research was conducted by the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, as part of the Report Card series which is designed to monitor and compare the performance of economically advanced countries in securing the rights of their children. The Report card

The latest of the UNICEF Office of Research Report Card series, aimed at focusing on the well-being of children in industrialized countries. Report Card 10 considers two views of child poverty in the world’s advanced economies: a measure of absolute depri

The report argues that children deserve the best possible start, that early experience can cast a long shadow, and that children are not to be held responsible for the circumstances into which they are born. In this sense the metric used- the degree of bo

A great change is coming over childhood in the world's richest countries. Today's rising generation is the first in which a majority are spending a large part of early childhood in some form of out-of-home child care. At the same time, neuroscientific res