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 …

In this paper we examine the concept of "vulnerability" (Townsend 1994) within thecontext of income mobility of the … have the greatest impact on consumption, incomparison to shocks to the income stream. Quantile-specific estimates … income stream. The estimates are foundto be robust to household composition and year-specific shocks.[...] …

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

. This paper contributes to this knowledge by examining the income mobility experienced by older people living in Britain and …. The comparative perspective yields insights about the different income experience of older people in the two markedly … different welfare regimes. Results show that old-age income mobility is more pronounced in Britain than in Germany, and that in …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamicsbenefits from taking a life cycle perspective. A … experiencing rising, falling, orother income trajectories. Using ten waves of the British Household PanelSurvey, we analyse the … income trajectories of people at different stages in theirlives in order to build a picture of income dynamics over the whole …

The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A povertylevel of 60 percent of median equivalised income … Survey, on which government estimatesof Households Below Average Income are based. There was a smallreduction in poverty …

Helen Bowman reports on interviews with 100 families in two low-income cityneighbourhoods, one in Sheffield and one in …