The Cost of Rights or the Right Cost? The Impact of Global Economic and Human Rights Policies on Child Well-Being

“这个奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案资助的”（公法111-5）促进儿童权利的新国际法有效吗？在什么条件下？自1989年以来，世界上几乎每个国家都批准了《儿童权利公约》，使其成为有史以来批准最广泛的条约。因此，世界正式承诺促进儿童权利。该项目评估了这一正式承诺对儿童生活的影响，并确定了与国际法一起改善儿童福祉的一系列因素。国际儿童权利条约可能只是装点门面，目的是让国家看起来很好，但很容易逃避。如果这是真的，其他因素也可能是必要的，以鼓励民族国家履行条约义务。也许促进儿童权利的国家法律，或在国内设立儿童权利利益集团也是必不可少的。全球经济趋势在哪里？最近，国际金融机构推动社会服务私有化，要求家庭付费使用这些服务。这可能使父母不愿意送孩子上学或让孩子接受治疗。直到最近，全球经济政策还在促进资本不受边界或监管阻碍的全球流动。这也可能影响儿童的福祉，尽管是间接的。该项目将查明促进或阻碍国际法执行的许多因素，为了回答提出的问题，研究人员收集了关于国际和国家儿童权利政策以及国际和国家经济政策和特点的数据，并将其编码。他们还汇编了世界上大多数国家长期以来儿童福祉若干方面的衡量标准。这些方面包括儿童生存（例如，健康和死亡率）;儿童发展（例如，入学率）;儿童不论种族、信仰、性别等享有平等机会;以及儿童的融入？的最佳利益纳入决策。研究人员将这些数据用于汇总的时间序列分析，以确定国际法最有效的情况。为这一项目建立的综合数据集将公开提供，以便其他研究人员能够回答有关儿童权利的问题。

"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" (Public Law 111-5)Are new international laws promoting the rights of children effective? Under what conditions? Since 1989, nearly every country in the world has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, making it the most widely ratified treaty ever. The world has thus made a formal commitment to promote children's rights. This project assesses the impact of this formal commitment on the lives of children and identify the range of factors that work with international law to improve children's well-being. International child-rights treaties may only be window dressing, designed to make countries look good but easily evaded. If this is true, other factors may also be necessary to encourage nation-states to live up to treaty obligations. Perhaps national laws promoting child rights, or the presence of child-rights interest groups within countries, are also essential. Where do global economic trends fit in? In the recent past, international financial institutions promoted the privatization of social services, requiring families to pay fees to use those services. This may have discouraged parents from sending children to school and or getting the children medical treatments. Global economic policies were also, until very recently, promoting the global flow of capital unhindered by borders or regulation. This could also affect child well-being, although more indirectly. This project will identify the many factors that facilitate or impede the implementation of international law.To answer the questions posed, the researchers gather and code data on international and national child rights policies and international and national economic policies and characteristics. They also compile measures of several dimensions of child well-being over time for most countries in the world. These dimensions include child survival (e.g., health and mortality); child development (e.g., educational enrollments); equal opportunity for children regardless of race, creed, gender, etc.; and the integration of children?s best interests into policymaking. The researchers use these data in pooled time-series analyses to determine the circumstances under which international law is most effective. The comprehensive dataset constructed for this project will be made publicly available so that other researchers can answer related questions concerning child rights.