determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently … and while the sign of the income gradient is in the same direction across respondents, systematic differences in …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … understate the income of poor households, as conjectured in past work by one of the authors. Underreporting in the survey data … making it seem that welfare programs are less targeted to both the very poorest and middle income households than they are …

turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …

importance of demographic factors as asource of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution tototal income risk …

) household income dynamics. This is largelybecause of the difficulties created by the fact that on top of the humancapital issues … proposesa framework for modelling household income dynamics. it emphasisesthe role of household formation and dissolution, and …, income and poverty dynamics.We illustrate this framework with an application to poverty rates amongyoung women in the US. We …

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 … psychological functioning. We also find some some aspects of the environment of higher income households hinder child development …

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 …

turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …

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 …