This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

the CPS, we describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to …

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 …

The earnings of mothers make up an important, but difficult to quantify, component of parental expenditures on children …. This paper compares the long-term earnings of women with children, women without children, and men. The study conducts …

family gap in pay - the differential in hourly wages between women with children and women without children. We present … that there is a good deal of variation across our sample countries in the effects of children on women's employment. We … also find large differences in the effects of children on women's hourly wages even after controlling for differences …

This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low-income … data also point to divergence across the two countries. In the UK, low-income families affected by the reforms are spending … more money on items related to children and are more likely to own a car and a phone, while in the US, families affected by …