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 …