games, focus groups with parents and children, a survey with parents, and behavioural experiments on advergames and in … parents play an important role in mediating their children’s online behaviour, parents are often not fully aware of the risks … children are exposed to increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques online which are often outside the purview of existing …

ofincreasing the employment of parents. We find that at its maximum,increasing paid work could roughly double the reduction in … childpoverty achieved by tax and benefit policies alone - a combined decreaseof 1.85 million children in poverty. However, a more …

Helen Bowman reports on interviews with 100 families in two low-income cityneighbourhoods, one in Sheffield and one in … children, but most families valued theirlocal community.[...] …

four low-income areas in England. Through successiverounds of interviews we are trying to understand how area conditions … parallel study is tracking 12 low-income areas across Englandand Wales from the 1991 Census to 2006.[...] …

sessions covering measurement of income poverty and deprivation, wideraspects of social exclusion and overall approaches to …

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health anddevelopment outcomes of children. One … investigated therelationship between income and the psychological wellbeing of the family.By reducing stress and conflict, more … income helps to foster an environmentmore conducive to healthy child development. In this paper, we exploitchanges in child …

In this paper we explore the association between family income and children’s cognitive ability (IQ and school … characteristics and home environments of low income children in accounting for different outcomes. Using rich cohort data from the UK … we find that poor children are disadvantaged at age 7 to 9 across the full spectrum of outcomes, the gradient being …

There is a growing literature that shows that higher family income is associatedwith better health for children …. Wealthier parents may have more advantagedchildren because they have more income to buy health care or because parentalwealth is … associated with beneficial behaviours or because parental health isassociated with both income and children’s health. The policy …