About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants with a rural hukou that severely restricts their children …'s access to urban schools. As a result, 69 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use two regression … are more likely to separate from children to take advantage of new opportunities in cities. Those workers earn much more …

How did industrialization in the nineteenth century affect the well-being of children among American working class … working in the industries examined did not, it appears, compensate their children for the reduced future earnings implied by …

We document how an anti-poverty program improves economic and subjective wellbeing, and self-sufficiency. Familias en …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …

Food Stamp spending, during the Great Recession. In this paper we examine the relationship between poverty, the social … the Great Recession. We do so using an alternative measure of poverty that incorporates taxes and in-kind transfers. We … disadvantaged. In the post-welfare reform world, TANF did not respond in the Great Recession and extreme poverty is more cyclical …

national sample of mostly unwed parents and their children-a group at high risk of living in poverty. We account for the … working, the mother's hours of work, and the father's hours of work. These results suggest that children's health problems may …