Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System, we found that children whose mothers were temporary migrants, living … elsewhere, or dead had higher odds of moving than children whose mothers were coresident. Older children and children living in … richer households faced lower odds of mobility. For children whose mothers were coresident, there was no effect of maternal …

consequences of marital disruption for the health insurance coverage of men, women, and children. We address this shortfall by … examining patterns of coverage surrounding marital disruption for men, women, and children, further subset by educational level … larger. One surprising result is that dependent coverage for children also declines after marital dissolution, even though …

Parental spending on children is often presumed to be one of the main ways that parents invest in children and a main … reason why children from wealthier households are advantaged. Yet, although research has tracked changes in the other main … parental investment in children. Parental spending increased, as did inequality of investment. We also investigate shifts in …

indicative of a cohort effect. Our results are largely robust to the inclusion of a control for the presence of children and for … subsets of couples with and without children. We provide three potential explanations for why the specialization gap narrows … children easier for same-sex couples from more recent birth cohorts, could result in more specialization in such couples …

poverty to classify children and their households into four groups, analyse their movements in and out of poverty, and explore … more detail, looking at the interplay between the progress or decline of households and that of children within those … and 3 (2002–2009), these changes were not always beneficial to children and did not reach nearly 1 in 10 households …

The Early Development Instrument (EDI) is a population measure and an indicator of children’s developmental health … analyse the psychometric properties of EDI-Sweden. Data about 116 5-year-old children were collected at ten preschools in two …

Empirical analyses of the determinants of life satisfaction routinely include the number of children as one of the … socio demographic controls, without explicitly considering that, for a given household income, more children imply a lower … level of income per family member. The variable “number of children” then often attracts a negative or insignificant …

This paper examines multidimensional poverty among children in Afghanistan using the Alkire-Foster method. Several … previous studies have underlined the need to separate children from their adult nexus when studying poverty and treat them … and to be what children themselves value and have reason to value. The case of Afghanistan is particularly relevant as …

This study investigated how family context affect poverty disparities between young children of immigrants from the … Mainland China and children of local families whose parents were born in Hong Kong using 2006 bicensus data. 12,609 and 12 …,753 children of immigrant and local families were included in our data analyses. We find higher child poverty rates in immigrant …