Human development is influenced by, but not entirely determined by, our parents and our genes. Children may have very different personalities, and different strengths and weaknesses, than the ...

Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the ...

Aranya Sawhney Malik, MA Development Studies student blogs about the importance of studying international development.

The refrain of parents is “I love all my children equally.” But not all kids get treated equally. Experts explain the impact of preferential treatment in a family.

Research by experts at the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oxford published in the European Journal of Pediatrics shows that early interventions to support the development of children ...

Researchers identified genes that could explain why some assisted reproductive technologies, like IVF, carry a higher risk of growth and metabolic issues in offspring.