We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … waves of the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The findings show that family … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …

In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is … concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not …. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care usage on mother-child interaction are examined. The analysis is based on data …

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child … childhood developmental outcomes, and only maternal smoking and drinking during pregnancy have some effects on child height. Not … surprisingly, family child-rearing environment has sizeable negative and positive effects on behavioral problems index and math …