alleviate child poverty concerns and financial constraints to having children. …In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500 …+ program which provides cash transfers to families with two or more children, and low-income, one-child families. Using a …

quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed …This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita …

Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide … number of well-being sub-indicators. -- Child well-being ; multidimensional index ; principal component ; child poverty …

We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two … channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and … decreases the likelihood of the child choosing the father's field of study or finding employment in the father's plant. Children …

How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by …. The effects are prevalent primarily among children to high-income mothers. Impacts are driven by a combination of a …

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. …

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 …

We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children …). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at … application on the French Household Budget Survey. -- Consumer demand ; collective model ; Rothbarth method ; cost of children …

We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i ….e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and … variation. The identification of the children's share requires the observation of adult-specific goods as in the traditional …