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 …

the relationship between the incomes of parents and future earnings of their children. We focus on two different measures …This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …

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 …

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 …