The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children … experimentally designed, five-year home visiting program in Ireland targeting disadvantaged families - Preparing for Life (PFL). We …

Evidence for the short-term impact of early intervention on childhood health is weak and inconsistent. Using rigorous … programme on child health. The treatment provides mentoring visits from pregnancy until school entry to improve child outcomes … through positively affecting parenting. In a context where socioeconomic inequalities in health have yet to emerge, modest …

century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health … at time of birth reduces the probability of being disabled as an adult by between .03 and .05 percentage points. We find …

This paper examines multidimensional poverty for three waves of a cohort of Irish children ranging from ages 9 to 17 …. Poverty is measured over the dimensions of health, education and family resources and both unidimensional and multidimensional … is higher for children whose mothers have lower levels of education, with net movements into rather than out of poverty. …

This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …

This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational …

In this article I measure the child quantity-quality relationship in 1911 Ireland. My analysis shows that sibship size …

on children's education by exploiting the United Nations sanctions imposed on Iran in 2006. Using the variation in the … sanctions decreased children's total years of schooling by 0.1 years and the probability of attending college by 4.8 percentage … children who were exposed longer to the sanctions. The results imply that sanctions have a larger effect on the income of …