Resources on child well-being

• Assisting Care Leavers: Time for Action (Jun 2022)
• Strengthening Early Childhood Education and Care in Ireland: Review on Sector Quality (Dec 2021)
• Schooling During a Pandemic: The Experience and Outcomes of Schoolchildren During the First Round of COVID-19 Lockdowns (Oct 2021)
• Beyond Academic Learning: First Results from the Survey on Social and Emotional Skills (Sep 2021)
• Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies (Jul 2021)
• Starting Strong VI: Supporting Meaningful Interactions in Early Childhood Education and Care (June 2021)
• Adapting Curriculum to Bridge Equity Gaps: Towards an Inclusive Curriculum (May 2021)
• 21st-Century Readers: Developing Literacy Skills in a Digital World (May 2021)
• The State of School Education: One Year into the COVID Pandemic (Apr 2021)
• Curriculum Overload: A Way Forward (Nov 2020)
• What Students Learn Matters: Towards a 21st Century Curriculum (Nov 2020)
• Education in the Digital Age: Healthy and Happy Children (Oct 2020)
• PISA 2018 Results (Volume VI): Are Students ready to Thrive in an Interconnected World? (Oct 2020)
• PISA 2018 Results (Volume V): Effective Policies, Successful Schools (Sep 2020)
• Quality Early Childhood Education and Care for Children Under Age 3: Results from the Starting Strong Survey 2018 (Jul 2020)
• PISA 2018 Results (Volume IV): Are Students Smart about Money? (May 2020)
• Early Learning and Child Well-being. A study of five-year-olds in England, Estonia and the United States (Mar 2020)
• PISA 2018 Results (Volume I): What Students Know and Can Do (Dec 2019)
• PISA 2018 Results (Volume II): Where All Students Can Succeed (Dec 2019)
• PISA 2018 Results (Volume III): What School Life Means for Students’ Lives (Dec 2019)
• Changing the Odds for Vulnerable Children: Building Opportunities and Resilience (Spanish translation) (Nov 2019)
• Ending Child Labour, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Global Supply Chains (Nov 2019)
• Making Physical Education Dynamic and Inclusive for 2030 (Oct 2019)
• Providing Quality Early Childhood Education and Care: Results from the Starting Strong Survey 2018 (Oct 2019)
• Educating 21st Century Children: Emotional Well-Being in the Digital Age (Oct 2019)
• Good Practice for Good Jobs in Early Childhood Education and Care (Jun 2019)
• The Road to Integration: Education and Migration (Jun 2019)
• Developing Minds in the Digital Age: Towards a Science of Learning for 21st Century Education (Apr 2019)
• Helping our Youngest to Learn and Grow: Policies for Early Learning (Mar 2019)
• Engaging Young Children : Lessons from Research About Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care (Mar 2018)
• Catching Up? Intergenerational Mobility and Children of Immigrants (Dec 2017)
• Educational Opportunity for All: Overcoming Inequality throughout the Life Course (Dec 2017)
• Starting Strong V: Transitions from Early Childhood Education and Care to Primary Education (Jun 2017)
• Starting Strong 2017: Key OECD Indicators on Early Childhood Education and Care (Jun 2017)
• How is Life for Children?, in How's Life? 2015: Measuring Well-being (Oct 2015)
• Starting Strong IV: Monitoring Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care (Oct 2015)
• Skills for Social Progress: The Power of Social and Emotional Skills (Mar 2015)
• Doing Better for Children (Sep 2009)

OECD Briefs and Policy Briefs

• The economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage (Fr) (Nov 2022)
• Improving Early Equity: From Evidence to Action (Oct 2022)
• Starting unequal: How’s life for disadvantaged children? (Fr) (Jul 2022)
• Play, create and learn: What matters most for five-year-olds (Nov 2021)
• Career readiness in the pandemic: A summary of project findings (Nov 2021)
• Experiencing the workplace: The importance and benefits for teenagers (Nov 2021)
• Career readiness in the pandemic: Insights from new international research for secondary schools (Nov 2021)
• Career conversations: Why it is important for students to talk about their futures in work with teachers, family and friends (Oct 2021)
• Using Digital Technologies for Early Education during COVID-19 (Oct 2021)
• Indicators of teenage career readiness: Guidance for policy makers (Oct 2021)
• Getting a job: How schools can help students in the competition for employment after education (Aug 2021)

• Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies (Français) (Jul 2021)
• Caring, sharing, daring: Social-emotional development at age five (Jun 2021)
• The future at five: Gendered Aspirations of five-year-olds (Mar 2021)
• Securing the recovery, ambition, and resilience for the well-being of children in the post-COVID-19 decade (Jan 2021)
• What is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigrants and their children? (Oct 2020)
• Combatting COVID-19's effect on children (Aug 2020)
• Is Childcare Affordable? (Jun 2020)
• Growing Up Online Addressing the Needs of Children in the Digital Environment (Feb 2020)
• Treating All Children Equally? Why Policies Should Adapt to Evolving Family Realities (Nov 2019)
• How Can We Help Stop Child Labour? (Feb 2019)
• Early Learning Matters (Nov 2018)
• Child Well-Being and the Sustainable Development Goals (Oct 2018)
• Children and Young People’s Mental Health in the Digital Age: Shaping the Future (Oct 2018)
• Poor Children in Rich Countries: Why We Need Policy Action (Oct 2018)

OECD Policy Papers and Working Papers

• A snapshot of equity and inclusion in OECD education systems: Findings from the Strength through Diversity Policy Survey (Dec 2022)
• The economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage in European OECD countries (Nov 2022)
• Starting unequal: How’s life for disadvantaged children? (Jul 2022)
• Cyberbullying: An overview of research and policy in OECD countries (Mar 2022)
• The social and economic rationale of inclusive education: An overview of the outcomes in education for diverse groups of students (Jan 2022)
• Indicators of teenage career readiness: An analysis of longitudinal data from eight countries (Oct 2021)
• A strong start for every Indigenous child (Jul 2021)
• Looking beyond COVID-19: Strengthening family support services across the OECD (Mar 2021)
• Children in the Digital Environment: Revised Typology of Risks (Jan 2021)
• Delivering Evidence Based Services for All Vulnerable Families (Jul 2020)
• Protecting children online: An overview of recent developments in legal frameworks and policies (Jun 2020)
• Why parenting matters for children in the 21st century: An evidence-based framework for understanding parenting and its impact on child development (Jun 2020)
• Treating all children equally? Why policies should adapt to evolving family realities (Mar 2020)
• Child Labour: Causes, Consequences and Policies to Tackle It (Nov 2019)
• Impacts of technology use on children: Exploring literature on the brain, cognition and well-being (Feb 2019)
• Child Well-Being and the Sustainable Development Goals (Oct 2018)
• New Technologies and 21st Century Children: Recent Trends and Outcomes (Sep 2018)
• The Power and Promise of Early Learning (Nov 2018)
• Tackling Child Poverty in Canada (Nov 2018)
• Tackling Child Poverty in Korea (Nov 2018)
• Child Poverty in the OECD: Trends, Determinants and Policies to Tackle it (Oct 2018)
• Physical Health and Well-being in Children and Youth: Review of the Literature (Feb 2018)
• Emotional Well-being of Children and Adolescents: Recent Trends and Relevant Factors (Feb 2018)
• An Evaluation of International Surveys of Children (Aug 2014)

Related OECD paper series

• OECD Education Working Papers
• OECD Education Policy Perspectives
• OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

OECD Legal Instruments

• OECD Recommendation on Children in the Digital Environment (May 2021)

OECD Guides and Infographics

• Pressure and Perfectionism in 21st Century Children
• Education in the Digital Age: Healthy Children, Healthy Futures
• Education in the Digital Age: The Importance of Play
• Children’s Relationships in the Digital Age
• 21st Century Children: Emotional Well-Being

OECD Surveys and Data Collections

• OECD International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study (IELS)
• OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
• OECD Starting Strong Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS Starting Strong)
• OECD Study on Social and Emotional Skills (SSES)
• OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)

OECD Data and Indicators

• OECD Child Well-being Data Portal
• OECD Education at a Glance
• OECD Education Database
• OECD Family Database
• OECD Income and Wealth Distribution Databases
• OECD PISA Database
• OECD Social Expenditure Database

OECD Seminars and Webinars

• Ask an expert: What pressures do children feel in the 21st century and what can we do about it? (22 October 2021)
• Getting a job: How schools can help students develop recruitment skills (29 September 2021)
• Ask an expert: How can we encourage an active and ethical digital generation? (1 September 2021)
• Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies (1 July 2021)
• How can we support meaningful interactions in early childhood education and care? (28 June 2021)
• Thinking about the future: How teenage attitudes towards careers are connected to employment in later life (18 June 2021)
• Ask an expert: How can we help children develop their digital skills? (16 June 2021)
• Sharing, caring, daring: Social-emotional development at age five (14 June 2021)
• Education: One Year into the COVID Pandemic (7 June 2021)
• Ask an expert: Why play is so important for child learning and development (18 May 2021)
• Ask an expert: Understanding digital risks for 21st century children (31 March 2021)
• Ask an expert: Understanding childhood in the 21st Century (12 November 2020)

See here for more on our OECD Education Webinar series.

OECD Events and Workshops

• High-level launch of the OECD Recommendation on Children in the Digital Environment (Nov 2021)
• OECD Conference: Disrupted futures: International lessons on how schools can best equip students for their working lives (Oct 2021)
• OECD Policy Workshop on Enhancing Child Well-being: From Ends to Means? (Jan 2019)
• UNICEF IRC/OECD/European Commission, 3rd Child Well-being Expert Consultation (Nov 2015)
• UNICEF IRC/OECD/The Learning for Well-being Consortium/European Commission, 2nd Child Well-being Expert Consultation (Nov 2011)
• UNICEF IRC/OECD/European Commission, 1st Child Well-being Expert Consultation (May 2009)

• African Child Policy Forum
• Alliance for Childhood European Network Group
• Bernard Van Leer Foundation
• Canadian Early Development Instrument (EDI)
• Canadian British Columbia Early Development Instrument (EDI)
• Child Trends
• Eurochild
• European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC)
• Global Coalition to End Child Poverty
• Harvard University Center on the Developing Child
• Inspiring Children's Futures
• Justice for Children
• Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation
• King Baudouin Foundation
• Learning for Well-being Foundation
• UNECE Task Force on Statistics on Children, Adolescents, and Youth
• UNICEF
• UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
• UNICEF in Europe and Central Asia
• Young Lives

• Australia: Australian Early Development Census (AEDC)
• Australia: Children's Headline Indicators
• Australia: Australia’s Children
• Canada: School Closures and Covid-19: Interactive Tool
• Costa Rica/Unicef: Child-Related SDG Progress Assessment for Costa Rica
• Finland: National Child Strategy
• France: Insee Première n° 1841: En 2020, 12 % des enfants dont les parents sont séparés vivent en résidence alternée (In 2020, 12% of children whose parents were separated lived in joint residence)
• Ireland: State of the Nation’s Children
• Ireland: Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures: The National Policy Framework for Children and Young People
• Latvia: Children in Latvia
• New Zealand: Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy
• United Kingdom: Children's Well-being Measures
• United States: America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being

• 21st Century Skills Mapping Study (21CS MAP)
• Children’s Worlds: International Survey of Children’s Well-Being (ISCWeb)
• European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD)
• Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children World Health Organization Collaborative Cross-National Survey (HBSC)
• International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS)
• International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICLS)
• Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)
• Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)