I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school. Moreover, I use … enrolment rates. Instrumental variable estimates show that the effect of household income on children's school enrolment is much …

children from low socioeconomic background are more likely to suffer from "objectively measured" health problems - except for … obesity. There is some evidence, however, that high income children are better able to cope with the adverse consequences of …

Our paper contributes to the literature studying how household conditions can influence children's development …, focusing on the type of family model where children grow up, defined on the basis of parental employment status and relative …-breadwinner" arrangement. How do different family models influence the development of children's skills? We use data from the Millennium Cohort …

conditions of immigrant children in comparison to native born German children must take into account the heterogeneity of … children in Germany has been marked by increasing problems: in 1997 the population share of children living in households … receiving welfare payments was about twice as high as the respective share for the entire population. Poverty head count rates …

We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British … Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty … persistence is greater, and poverty exit rates in particular are lower. In both countries poverty is particularly persistent among …

This paper compares child poverty dynamics cross-nationally using panel data from seven nations: the USA, Britain …, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Russia. As well as using standard relative poverty definitions the paper examines flows … into and out of the poorest fifth of the children's income distribution. We find significant (but not total) uniformity in …

significantly slowed the growth trajectory of exposed children from herding households. This negative effect is still observable … experienced head are better able to protect their children from the negative consequences of the 2009/10 winter shock. There are …

developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation … providers. -- Obesity ; human capital ; children ; child development ; Germany ; gender …

distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, understanding how different … estimate the causal effect of sibship size on the geographic distance between older parents and adult children by using a large … developed countries, our findings suggest that the trend towards smaller families will not necessarily result in adult children …