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Children's Well-Being: The Research & Policy Challenges

A list of abstracts accepted for the conference is now available. The abstracts are arranged in alphabetical order by first author.

First Author	Title of paper	Institution	Country
Achoba, Isaac et al.	Realizing more equitable social development in Kenya: experiences from community social budgeting process and social intelligence reporting	UNICEF Kenya country office	Kenya
Ancheta, Ana	An Inclusive Proposal of indicators to compare Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) systems within different European Welfare Regimes	University of Valencia	Spain
Andresen, Sabine	Freedom and care. Empirical and theoretical aspects of children’s well-being	Bielefeld University	Germany
Andresen, Sabine et al	Precarious childhood: How children experience poverty	Bielefeld University	Germany
Attar-Schwarz, Shalhevet	Adolescents' reports on staff abuse in residential care for children at-risk	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
Awartani, Marwan	Elham Palestine: An inclusive national partnership for policy change	Universal Education Foundation	Palestine
Backe-Hansen, Elisabeth	Child well-being in severely disadvantaged families	Norwegian Social Research	Norway
Baltatescu, Sergiu et al.	Adolescent well-being subjective indicators of relationships in a Romanian and Spanish adolescent sample	University of Oradea	Romania
Baltatescu, Sergiu et al.	Developing child well-being indicators at county level in Romania	University of Oradea	Romania
Barragan, Paola	Happiness and Education. A research study on value-based education	Oxford University	UK
Begum, Salma	Child labour legislation and the status of child labour in India	Maharanis Science College for women	India
Belazzoug, Soumia et al.	Exploring the well-being of Algerian schooled children using the Draw and Write techniques	University of Oran	Algeria
Betz, Tanja	“Children as…”: How children are represented in (inter)national reporting systems	Goethe-University	Germany
Bilinski, Hope et al.	The impact of psychosocial well-being on the health behaviours of rural children	University of Saskatchewan	Canada
Bird, Philippa	International comparisons of socioeconomic gradients in child health and wellbeing: methodological issues	University of York	UK
Blumberg, Stephen et al.	The CSHCN Screener: Key findings, methods issues, and its relationship with well-being	National Center for Health Statistics	USA
Borgeraas, Elling et al.	Assessing the cost of children and understanding welfare adaptations in changing Economies: Comparing Norway and China	National Institute for Consumer Research	Norway
Bosnjak, Branislava	Virginity, early marriage and well-being of Roma girls – The children´s rights perspective	Bielefeld University	Germany
Brady, Bernadine	Youth mentoring and the well-being of young people: Evidence from an Irish mixed methods evaluation	National University of Ireland	Ireland
Brooks, Anne-Marie et al	A strategic approach to data and research – implications for Children’s Services Committees in Ireland	Department of Health and Children	Ireland
Canali, Cinzia et al	Combining qualitative and quantitative methods for assessing the well-being of children in need	Fondazione Emanuela Zancan	Italy
Cargill, Dwayne et al.	Child Participation: A model for Child Advocacy	Office of the Children’s Advocate	Jamaica
Carrasco, Silvia	Conflicting views and indicators of students participation in school mediation through in Catalonia	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain
Casas, Ferran et al.	Subjective indicators of adolescents’ well-being. Comparing some results among four Latin-languages-speaking countries	University of Girona	Spain
Casas, Ferran et al.	Self-categorisation as a udiovisual media consumers and personal well-being among Spanish adolescents	University of Girona	Spain
Casas, Ferran et al.	From observations to indicators: A computer package to support the management of social risk in childhood and adolescence	University of Girona	Spain
Casas, Ferran et al.	Multi-national study of children’s subjective well-being and daily activities: the Spanish and Brazilian testing	University of Girona	Spain
Cassidy, Tony	Young Carers: What they can teach us about resilience	University of Ulster	Northern Ireland
C.G. Lakshmipathi et al.	Girl child in contemporary India	Central Institute of Home Science	India
Chase, Richard	Indicators of child, family, and system well-being associated with school readiness	Wilder Research	USA
Clair, Amy	Investigating the relationship between parent and child subjective well-being in Great Britain	University of York	UK
Cuesta, Laura et al	Do child maintenance policies improve children’s economic well-being in both developing and developed countries? The case of Colombia and the US	University of Wisconsin	USA
Cusworth, Linda	Young people’s emotional well-being: the impact of parental employment patterns and other factors	University of York	UK
D’Addato, Agata et al.	Bridging research, policy & practice: the role of EU civil society network	Eurochild	Belgium
Daly, Anne et al.	Investigating the robustness of small area level measures of risk of social exclusion for Australian children	University of Canberra	Australia
de Ayala, Constance et al	France setting up a new process for collecting data in children in care system: a challenge at local and national level	ONED	France
de Neubourg, Elise et al.	The effects of malnutrition and post traumatic stress disorder on the learning capacity of children	Maastricht University	Netherlands
Dewan, Renu	Female children of migrant labour: A socio-psychological study of Ranchi District in Jharkhand, India	Ranchi University	India
de Wilde, Erik Jan et al	Youth well-being and youth suicide: Two sides of the same coin?	Netherlands Youth Institute	Netherland
Dinisman, Tamar	First year after care: How are they doing and what contributes to their life satisfaction? A longitudinal research	The Hebrew University	Israel
Engilbertsdottir, Solrun et al.	Can multidimensional poverty capture child vulnerability?	UNICEF Policy and Practice Group	USA
Exenberger, Silvia et al.	Children’s well-being after tsunami: A study in Tamil Nadu/India	University of Innsbruck	Austria
Expósito, Eva et al.	Adults’ perceptions of child well-being. Developing and validating a helpful measuring instrument	University of Madrid	Spain
Fernandes, Liliana et al	A review essay on the measurement of child well-being	Portuguese Catholic University	Portugal
Fernandez, Elizabeth	Growing up in foster care: Children’s perceptions of their wellbeing	University of New South Wales	Australia
Fluke, John et al.	Child disciplinary practices: Analyses from households in the third round of the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys	American Humane Association	USA
Fontainha, Elsa	Children and families: Time management and perception of stress	Technical University of Lisbon	Portugal
Forkan, Cormac	Building evidence for practice on how to support adolescents through a comparative tracking of their perceived social support outcomes	National University of Ireland	Ireland
Frønes, Ivar	Well-being, risk an marginalization	University of Oslo	Norway
Ganne, Claire	Child’s well-being after leaving a center for infants and single mothers	Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense	France
Gilbert, Habaasa	Analysis of the major causes of high infant mortaility rate in Uganda	Makerere University	Uganda
Gilman, Rich et al	The “contagion” of subjective well-being: How happiness spreads across adolescents’ social network	University of Cincinnati	USA
Giusti-Dora et al.	Building indicators for Child Friendly Cities and Communities and assessing local progress in child well-being through a participatory approach	UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre	Italy
Godfrey, Erin et al.	Cross-national comparisons of Child Friendly Schools: An analysis of student-reported survey data from South Africa, Nicaragua and the Philippines	New York University	USA
Goerge, Robert et al.	Using administrative data to create indices of child and family needs	University of Chicago	USA
Goswami, Haridhan	Children’s subjective well-being: Personality and demographic correlates	Children's Society	UK
Gross-Manos, Daphna	Brands consumption, children's well-being and experience of social exclusion	Child Indicator Research Journal
Güner, Pinar	Well-being of the third generation Turkish immigrant youth in Germany	University of Bielefeld	Germany
Hajar, Siti et al.	Children’s views on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The case of children in state care, Malaysia.	University Malaya	Malaysia
Hall, Katharine	Growing up in the panel: Towards longitudinal measurement of child poverty dynamics	University of Cape Town	South Africa
Hampden-Thompson, Gillian et al.	Educational outcome indicators of young people in England by family structure	University of York	UK
Hernandez, Donald	Changing disparities in child well-being across income groups in the U.S.: 1985-2008	City University of New York	USA
Hart, Debbie	The association between parental life satisfaction and older children’s self esteem	University of Essex	UK
Hobbs, Tim et al	Making child well-being data work hard: what is possible?	Social Research Unit, Dartington	UK
Hoelscher, Petra	The effectiveness of social protection measures to reduce child poverty and vulnerability in Namibia	UNICEF	Namibia
Hood, Rick	Outcomes, indicators and professional work in integrated children’s services	Royal Holloway University of London	UK
Huby, Meg	Child poverty in six CEE/CIS countries	University of York	UK
Hudson, John et al	Beyond Indices? The potential of fuzzy set ideal type analysis for comparative analysis of children’s well being	University of York	UK
Huerta, Maria	Early maternal employment and child development in five OECD countries	OECD Social Policy Division	France
Hunner-Kreisel, Christine	“Having to ‘keep silent’” – Familial childhood in the context of migration and the question of well-being from a capabilities perspective	University of Bielefeld	Germany
Husary, Dina et al.	Health status of Palestinian’s children, comparative study 2000 – 2010	UNICEF/Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Isaacs, Serena et al	A qualitative inquiry investigating the influence of community violence and adolescents’ sense of hope on perceptions of well-being in a high violence community in Cape Town	University of the Western Cape	South Africa
Jayasekaran, Subajini et al.	Monitoring violations against children during armed conflicts	Child protection and child rights consultants
Kahan-Strawczynski et al.	Well-being among immigrant youth in Israel	Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute	Israel
Kellett, Mary	How was it for me? Reviewing the impact of Every Child Matters in the UK through the lens of the child	The Open University	UK
Kellock, Anne	Children's perspectives of well-being in English and New Zealand primary schools	Sheffield Hallam University	UK
Khadka, Suman	Child Wellbeing in developing countries – limitations of the United Nations-Child Rights Convention (UN-CRC) Framework while developing children’s social policies	Monash University	Australia
Kim, Yeunhee	A study on the mental health of North Korean refugee youth in South Korea	Daegu University	Korea
Kipperberg, Elise	Listen to me and respect me for who I am	University of Stavanger	Norway
Kutsar, Dagmar et al.	A child with two homes: richer or poorer?	University of Tartu	Estonia
Lau, Maggie et al	The extent of family and school social capital promoting positive subjective well-being among children in Shenzhen, China	The Hong Kong Institute of Education	Hong Kong
Lawler, Michael et al.	Inter-agency data sharing and protection: Measuring child well-being in the United States	University of South Dakota	USA
Lee, Bong Joo	The relationship between children’s development and socioeconomic factors in Korea	Seoul National University	Korea
Li, Junlei	Lost in translation – Unintended psychosocial consequences stemming from the intended use of child indicators	University of Pittsburgh	USA
López, Verónica et al.	Peer agression in Chile: The influence of classroom and school level factors on children´s well-being	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso	Chile
Maika, Amelia et al	A snapshot of health and early childhood development in Indonesia: Baseline results	Gadjah Mada University	Indonesia
Main, Gill	Developing a child-centric measure of child poverty	University of York	UK
Martín-Pastor, Elena et al	Assessment of reading comprehension of immigrant students and those from socio-cultural disadvantaged situations	University of Salamanca	Spain
Matheson, Lauranne	Investments in Children’s Health: Are community-based health services reaching those most at risk? A Spatial Analysis	Public Health Agency of Canada	Canada
McCroskey, Jacquelyn et al.	Changing track and tracking change: Data lessons learned from systems change strategies in Los Angeles county, 1984-2009	University of Southern California	USA
McDonell, Jim et al	Path models of neighborhood effects on child injuries	Clemson University	USA
McKay, Stephen	The dynamics of shared care in the UK	University of Birmingham	UK
Menchini, Leonardo	Poverty and inequality among children in economically advanced countries: the Innocenti Report Card series	UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre	Italy
Mensah, Fiona et al.	Including multiple domains in analysis of health inequalities: Latent class analysis of physical, cognitive and socio-emotional development in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children	Murdoch Childrens Research Institute/ Royal Children’s Hospital/ University of Melbourne	Australia
Minoiu, Camelia et al.	Child Health and Conflict in Cote d’Ivoire	IMF Institute	USA
Mitchell, Eva	Tax-benefit approach to well-being of single-parent families in the CEE countries	Czech Academy of Sciences	Czech Republic
Mohaupt, Sarah	Intergenerational links of parental socio-economic resources and children's health outcomes at different stages of their life-course - evidence from Indonesia	London School of Economics	UK
Mølholt, Anne-Kirstine et al.	Evaluating "Best Preventive Practice"– The development and wellbeing of vulnerable children assigned a preventive practice by municipalities	The Danish National Centre for Social Research	Denmark
Montserrat, Carme et al.	What are the factors influencing the inequality between children and children in care? The differences among their intergenerational transitions	University of Girona	Spain
Moore, Kristin et al	Measures of positive outcomes: An interim report	Child Trends	USA
Moore, Kristin et al	The robustness of Indices of Child Well-being	Child Trends	USA
Munro, Emily et al.	Safeguarding children from harm: the availability and comparability of data to facilitate cross-national comparisons	Loughborough University	UK
Murphey, David et al	Mobility and children’s well-being	Child Trends	USA
Murphy, Tara et al	How are our kids today? Exploring the lives of children and families living in a disadvantaged community in Ireland	Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative	Ireland
Müthing-Kathrin et al	Children’s well-being in Germany – Results of the “LBS-Kinderbarometer Deutschland”	Institute for Social Research of PROSOZ Herten GmbH	Germany
Nadeem, Sanober et al	Development and inter-rater reliability of the "Care for Development (CDA)-appraisal tool": Assessment and monitoring of child development during first three years	Aga Khan University	Pakistan
Nairn, Agnes et al.	Materialism, Inequality and Wellbeing in Childhood: Using International Ethnography to Understand the Dynamics	EMLyon Business School	UK
Nash, Poppy	The YeSS! Project. Supporting vulnerable learners in their transition to secondary school: a randomised controlled trial	University of York	UK
Navarro, Dolors et al.	Social participation of adolescents in the context of secondary education: Its relationship with personal well-being	Quality of Life Research Institute	University of Girona
Ndugwa, Robert et al.	Kenya’s health sector budgetary allocations: how aligned is it to child health national priorities?	UNICEF Kenya country office	Kenya
Nevill, Camilla	Feelings count: Measuring children’s subjective well-being for charities and funders	New Philanthropy Capital	UK
Newton, Julie et al.	Understanding wellbeing amongst young people: engaging young people through ‘contemporary science debate’	Cardiff University	UK
Oh, Yeongrok et al	Reliability and validity study for SS-PSCK	Chungbuk National University	Korea
O'Hare, William et al	Measures of Child Well-Being from a Decentralized Statistical System: The Case of the United States	The Annie E. Casey Foundation	USA
Olk, Thomas et al.	Normative assumptions of child indicators	Martin-Luther-University	Germany
Phillips, Ron	OECD and education in Canada: Misinformation	Nipissing University	Canada
Pople, Larissa	A study of the links between life events and children’s subjective well-being	Children’s Society/University of York	UK
Pullum, Thomas	Using survey data to target programs for highly vulnerable children in Ethiopia	University of Texas at Austin	USA
Rasulova, Saltanat	What affects child agency and well-being in Kyrgyzstan?	University of Oxford	UK
Redmond, Gerry	The relationship between policymakers' choices of outcome indicators for children and policies to reduce inequality between children: The case of Australia since the 1980s	University of NSW	Australia
Rees, Gwyther	Measuring children’s subjective well-being: comparison of different measurement instruments and approaches	Children's Society/University of York	UK
Richardson, Dominic	Spending on children in the OECD and well-being outcomes: A question of how much or how?	OECD Social Policy Division	France
Roelen, Keetie et al	Measuring child well-being using mixed methods – an Ethiopian example	Institute of Development Studies	UK
Roelen, Keetie et al	Monitoring child well being in the European Union: measuring cumulative disadvantage	Institute of Development Studies	UK
Roestenburg, Wim	Children and crime – Guidelines for the development of an Index of Youth Crime Indicators	University of Johannesburg	South Africa
Rogers, Jo et al.	Development of indicators of loss parental care with child and parent participation	Center of Development of innovative Social Services	Russia
Ruiz-Casares, Mónica et al.	Failure to supervise and injuries in the Canadian child welfare system	McGill University	Canada
Sarriera, Jorge et al.	Associations between world assumptions and well-being in Brazilian adolescents	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Brazil
Sarriera, Jorge et al.	Relations between social support and personal well-being in adolescence	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Brazil
Sarriera, Jorge et al.	Brazilian adolescents’ says on their well-being and quality of life	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Brazil
Savahl, Shazly et al.	An investigation into the impact of hope on children and adolescents’ perceptions of well-being within high violence communities in Cape Town	University of the Western Cape	South Africa
Shaw, Ian	Technology and professional practice: Reflections on the integrated children’s system	University of York	UK
Shimada, Yoko et al.	Challenges in analysis of the children’s health risks caused by indoor air pollution in developing countries using and processing data on child well-being	Setsunan University	Japan
Shimoni, Edna et al	Background and outcomes of a cohort of children in care in Israel	Israel Bureau of Statistics	Israel
Shimoni, Edna et al.	Multi-national study of children’s subjective well-being and daily activities	Israel Bureau of Statistics	Israel
Skinner, Christine	What do indicators measuring the ‘Home Learning Environment’ tell us about child development in the early-years?	University of York	UK
Smith, Ruth	The introduction of early education provision for two year old children in England	National Centre for Social Research	UK
Smith, Susan et al.	Indicating success in public child welfare: Child outcomes, system performance and the CFSR process	Casey Family Programs	USA
Sohn, Byoungduk	Multifaceted risk and preventive factors associated with childhood emotional disorders	Chongshin University	Korea
Stephenson, Paul	Measuring child well-being across cultures: Results from International Adaptations of the Development Asset Profile tool	World Vision Intl	USA
Stolberg, Carolyn et al.	Intervention or Prevention? – National child well-being strategies in Germany and Great Britain instancing health behaviour in early childhood	Georg-August Universität	Germany
Stubbs, Glendra	Indigenous children’s well-being: Inter-generational trauma	Link-Up (NSW) Aboriginal Corporation	Australia
Sulimani-Aidan, Yafit	Child maltreatment: The role of the community socio-economic characteristics and ethnicity in Israel	Bar Ilan University	Israel
Tannenbaum, Michal	Language policy dilemmas and children's well-being	Tel Aviv University	Israel
Terefe, Amsalu	The contribution of children’s parliament in ensuring the rights and well-being of children in Konso, Ethiopia	Norwegian University of Science & Technology	Norway
Thoilliez, Bianca et al.	Perceptions of future teachers and education professionals about five key dimensions of child well-being	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain
Thompson, Patricia	Discipline, guidance and punishment	Massey University	New Zealand
Tiliouine, Habib et al.	Subjective well-being of secondary school students in Algeria: A survey research	University of Oran	Algeria
Tommasi, Beatrice et al.	Italian validation of three American scales aimed at measuring children’s well-being	University of Florence	Italy
Tong, Xiaojun	How the Child Indicators work in Mainland China?	China Youth University for Political Sciences	China
Toussaint, Jonathan	How do I look? Body image and the concern of Australian children: Some implications for policy and practice	Interrelate	Australia
Turpel-Lafond, Mary et al.	Treat us like we matter: The role of youth in measuring and telling their stories about health and well-being	Office of the Representative for Children and Youth	Canada
Uyan, Pinar et al.	Developing Child Well-Being Indicators for Istanbul-Turkey	Istanbul Bilgi University Political Science	Turkey
Viikeri, Eveliina et al	Developing data collection methods to study subjective hopsital experiences of pre-school-aged children	University of Turku	Finland
von Bredow, Maria	A report on child well-being in Spain. The development of a comprehensive index and its results	UNICEF	Spain
Weigensberg, Elizabeth et al	Education and employment of youth in Chicago: Using linked administrative data to assess indicators and outcomes of educational achievement and economic well-being	University of Chicago	USA
Wulczyn, Fred	Permanency in a social structural context	University of Chicago	USA
Yoshihara, Reiko et al.	Measuring child poverty and vulnerabilities: Experience and lessons learnt from Sentinel Site Early Warning Monitoring System in six pacific island countries	UNICEF Pacific	Fiji