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  • January 2024
  • Article

Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Theresa Molina, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
Can investing in children who faced adverse events in early childhood help them catch up? We answer this question using two orthogonal sources of variation – resource availability at birth (local rainfall) and cash incentives for school enrollment – to identify the... View Details
Keywords: Children; Outcome or Result; Welfare; Early Childhood Education; Weather
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  • 28 Feb 2014
  • News

Mumbai Restaurateur Raises Money to Feed Street Children

Keywords: philanthropy; poverty; India; street children; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 1980
  • Book

Divided Children

By: Michael A. Wheeler
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  • 2014
  • Article

Children Develop a Veil of Fairness

By: Alex Shaw, Natalia Montinari, Marco Piovesan, Kristina Olson, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton
Previous research suggests that children develop an increasing concern with fairness over the course of development. Research with adults suggests that the concern with fairness has at least two distinct components: a desire to be fair and a desire to signal to others... View Details
Keywords: Inequity Aversion; Social Signaling; Social Cognitive Development; Communication Intention and Meaning; Fairness; Age; Reputation; Growth and Development; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 21 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Children Develop a Veil of Fairness

Keywords: by A. Shaw, N. Montinari, M. Piovesan, K.R. Olson, F. Gino & M.I. Norton
  • January 2015
  • Article

Costly Third-party Punishment in Young Children

By: Katherine McAuliffe, Jillian J. Jordan and Felix Warneken
Human adults engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair behavior, but the developmental origins of this behavior are unknown. Here we investigate costly third-partypunishment in 5- and 6-year-old children. Participants were asked to accept (enact) or reject... View Details
Keywords: Third-party Punishment; Inequity Aversion; Social Cognition; Cooperation; Fairness; Behavior
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  • 25 May 2016
  • News

Backing Harvard’s Work for Children

Robert Tichio (MBA 2005) and Maya Tichio When some of Robert Tichio’s (MBA 2005) HBS friends seem surprised to hear that he recently made a gift to support Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child, he simply explains that he believes in the center’s approach... View Details
  • 14 Jul 2016
  • News

Teaching Children to Care

  • December 2006 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

Disney Consumer Products: Marketing Nutrition to Children

By: David E. Bell and Laura Winig
In an effort to capture market share in the children's foods category, Disney Consumer Products (DCP) debuted a broad line of "better for you" foods, ranging from fresh fruits and vegetables to frozen meals, through a partnership with Kroger supermarkets. In answer to... View Details
Keywords: Age; Nutrition; Brands and Branding; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; Social Issues; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Educating children through inquiry-based learning

Kim Frock (MBA 1987) cofounded the Alternative School for Math and Science (ASMS) in Corning, New York, to provide an academically challenging, inquiry-based learning environment for children in grades 6 through 8. The independent school... View Details
  • July 1989
  • Article

Immunizing Children Against the Negative Effects of Reward

By: B. A. Hennessey, T. M. Amabile and M. Martinage
Two studies were conducted to examine the effect of intrinsic motivation training on children's subsequent motivational orientation and creativity in an expected reward situation. Past research has demonstrated the overjustification effect: Children who work on an... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Training; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Teaching
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  • 26 Sep 2017
  • Video

Blavatnik Fellow Works to Restore Hearing in Children

  • 20 May 2015
  • News

Study: Working Moms Benefit Children

  • 1999
  • Article

Functional MRI in Children with Epilepsy

By: S. Y. Bookheimer, M. Dapretto and Uma R. Karmarkar
Keywords: Health Disorders; Health
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  • March 1997 (Revised July 1998)
  • Case

SOS-Kinderdorf International: Caring for Orphaned Children

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
SOS-Kinderdorf, founded in 1949, has grown rapidly into one of the largest orphanages in the world with children's villages, kindergartens, schools, youth facilities, and other complementary programs in 130 countries. This case describes the evolution of the... View Details
Keywords: Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Mission and Purpose; Problems and Challenges; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; India; Norway; United States
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Advocating for all children with autism

Alison Tepper Singer (MBA 1993) was pursuing a successful career in broadcast journalism when her daughter Jodie was diagnosed with autism. Singer decided to do more than advocate for her own child. In 2005, she became CEO of Autism Speaks, a science and advocacy... View Details
  • 1992
  • Chapter

The Motivation for Creativity in Children

By: T. M. Amabile and B. A. Hennessey
Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Age
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  • 15 Jul 2020
  • News

Pandemic disproportionately affects scientists with young children

  • 19 May 2017
  • News

How to Psych Children Up to Perform

  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Providing education and opportunities to children in Pakistan

Seema Aziz (OPM 39, 2010), cofounder of Bareeze, a global luxury textile and clothing brand based in Pakistan, started the CARE Foundation to provide education and opportunities for children in rural Pakistan. In this video conducted... View Details