Introduction / Phillip B. Levine and David J. Zimmerman -- Issues in implementation / Phillip B. Levine and David J. Zimmerman -- Early childhood interventions -- Child development / Greg J. Duncan, Jens Ludwig and Katherine A. Magnuson -- Child care / Patricia M. Anderson -- Child health / Lara...

A substantial number of American children experience poverty: about 17 percent of those under the age of eighteen meet the government’s definition, and the proportion is even greater within minority groups. Childhood poverty can have lifelong effects, resulting in poor educational, labor...

Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review, we discuss the evidence documenting these patterns,...

Expanding childcare is often considered as a suitable way to enhance employment opportunities of mothers with young children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare...