adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter …

Income Dynamics (PSID). We find that children raised by step, adoptive or foster mothers obtain significantly less education …In this paper we compare the educational attainment of birth and non-birth children of women in the Panel Study of … on average than do the birth children of the same women. Controlling for the women's fixed effects, the non …

We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National … children living with step mothers are significantly less likely to have routine doctor and dentist visits, or to have a place … for usual medical care, or for sick care. If children living with step mothers have regular contact with their birth …

of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by family type, holding constant household size, age composition and …

attainment of taller individuals. We then turn to the NLSY79 Children and Young Adult Survey to better understand what specific …

This paper reexamines differences found between income gradients in American and English children's health, in results … the same time period, the income gradient in children's health increases with age by the same amount in the two countries … are larger in the English sample than in the American sample, and that income plays a larger role in buffering children …

Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age is an important first step in … uncovering the mechanisms that connect economic and health status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children …

Examination Survey, we find that children's health is positively related to household income. The relationship between household … income and children's health status becomes more pronounced as children grow older. A large component of the relationship … between income and children's health can be explained by the arrival and impact of chronic health conditions in childhood …

suggest that further gains in child support payments will rest with our ability to collect child support for children born to … unwed parents. These children are the fastest growing group of children in the US, and they are the least likely to receive …