expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most … commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury items for children. Children of lone parents have lower budget shares for … suggesting that children mimic their parent's expenditure patterns. …

child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently …

the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …

the US, with the slope of the gradient being larger for older than younger children. In this paper we explore the child … analysis is based on a sample of over 13,000 children (and their parents) drawn from the Health Survey for England. In … hypothesis that the NHS has a protective effect on the health of children in England. …

household income only being a significant predictor of death from cancer. Moreover, we find that children born in a location … from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records … up to 2005. We estimate a number of duration of life models that control for unobserved household heterogeneity. Our …

educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …

We study the extent of horizontal inequity in children's mental healthcare use in Australia, where universal insurance … find that conditional on need, children from lower income families are significantly less likely to receive services from … clinical psychologists than children from higher income households. However, we see little evidence of income inequities in …