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 …

market outcomes of the children whose parents were affected by them, perhaps because benefits are hard to measure or confined … adults, particularly for disadvantaged children; however the gains may be less pronounced when high quality subsidized child …

Using data on nine countries from the Luxembourg Income Study database, we estimate trajectories in gross and … having children; partnering at age 24 and having one child at age 27; partnering at age 24 and having two children, at ages … 25 and 27; and partnering at age 24, having two children at ages 25 and 27, and then living without a partner from ages …

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 …