We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …

’s employment on children’s wellbeing (which proxy traditional gender attitudes). Drawing on a large, representative and … non-mothers who work and mothers who do not work are more likely to agree that pre-school children suffer if mothers work …

-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …

decreasing recently in Japan. In Japan and Taiwan even in households cohabiting with children, the poverty rates and income … configurations differ depending on the marital status of the children. Poverty rates are higher in case of cohabiting with unmarried …We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are …

of mothers' work participation on families' relative income position and poverty risk. Results are compared across seven …

It is widely held that people who work have no difficulty in avoiding poverty and guaranteeing their family a decent … people, sometimes even working full time. But, previous studies have failed to consider the extent of poverty among the … active and inactive poor people. Estimating Gini indices and poverty gaps for those groups gives a different idea of the …