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 …

hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …

understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through … to either a polio outbreak, or to introduction of the vaccine against the disease, had long-term impacts on adult income … association between parental loss during childhood and lower adult income, educational attainment, and worse health. This analysis …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program …

substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects …

particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … estimates of the effect of parental education will be biased upwards. Moreover, it is very common for parental income data to be … grouped, in which case income is measured with error and the coefficient on income will be biased towards zero and there are …

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