tailieunhanh - Religion and Child Health

This report continues the story from the project’s first publication, Growing Up in North America: Child Well-Being in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and presents an overview of the health and safety of children in North America. It is based on the ecological indicator model that was developed for the Children in North America Project. The project’s first publication provided an overview of the status of children within and across the three countries in North America and gave critical baseline information from which policymakers, politicians, and children’s advocates can make good decisions—to ensure that our children and youth have the quality of life and the. | DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 5215 Religion and Child Health Barry R. Chiswick Donka M. Mirtcheva September 2010 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor Religion and Child Health Barry R. Chiswick University of Illinois at Chicago and IZA Donka M. Mirtcheva The College of New Jersey Discussion Paper No. 5215 September 2010 IZA . Box 7240 53072 Bonn Germany Phone 49-228-3894-0 Fax 49-228-3894-180 E-mail iza@ Any opinions expressed here are those of the author s and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. The Institute for the Study of Labor IZA in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network workshops and conferences data service project support research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in i original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics ii development of policy concepts and iii dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. IZA Discussion Paper No. 5215 September 2010 ABSTRACT Religion and Child Health This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19 as reported in the Child Development Supplements CDS to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics PSID . The primary focus is on the effect of religion on the reported overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion .