-income families with children in the United States, with 1.04 million children currently receiving SSI benefits and 6 percent of … children in a household with some SSI income. In this paper we use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation … (SIPP) to investigate the impact that child SSI enrollment has on household outcomes such as poverty, household earnings …

-specific effects for occupation. We conclude that important information about the links between parental incomes and children exists …

. Analyses of a large-scale longitudinal dataset in the U.S., and a much smaller dataset of Chinese parents and children, show …

, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While no single … family earnings. The result was a rise in total family income and a decline in poverty. The gains from the 1996 reforms were …

dynamic model of consumption and labor supply. We emphasize two key results. First, a psychology-based theory of poverty traps … of financial stress. On the other hand, naifs dis-save, fall into a poverty trap, and incur high welfare losses. Second …

This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there …

panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and …In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular … we examine how and to what extent the safety net is providing protection to at-risk children. We find compelling evidence …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992-2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families …