the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs … significantly, disadvantaged American children living in much more challenging circumstances, and the role of public policy not as …

Using microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study, we assess 'time crunch' for families with children in Canada, Germany … well-being of parents and children. We present cross-country comparisons of 'total available adult hours' under different … families, we nonetheless find significant numbers of lower-income families in which parents work very long hours in the paid …

employed. While income is a vital input to well-being, it is probably not the best measure, particularly of children's well … income exists. The principal goal of this paper is to begin to fill this gap. We compare children cross-nationally in terms …, children at the bottom of the Canadian income distribution are more likely to be better off than children at the bottom of the …