This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population …

In this paper, we study the effects of extra-school activities on children's non-cognitive development, using data from … the Millennium Cohort Study (UK) and focusing on children aged 7-11 years old. We classify the time spent out of school … data.Results show the beneficial effects on children's behaviour of sports, school-related activities, time with parents …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies …

degree of crowding in the household. The evidence suggests that family size affected the health of children through its … of children, as the quality-quantity trade-off would suggest. We use microdata from a unique survey from 1930s Britain to … analyze the relationship between the standardized heights of children and the number of children in the family. Our results …

In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from …

Immigrant children in the US tend to perform worse in reading, mathematics, and science compared to native children … linked to age at arrival, and that migrant children arrive at different ages from different countries of origin. In … particular, I instrument English proficiency by comparing children from English-speaking countries to children from non …