Die Neuauflage des Titels zu der von Elke Günther in BA 5/05 als "bewundernswert aspektreich" bezeichneten Untersuchung über Kinderarmut stützt sich auf die Daten einer Lebenslageanalyse von Kindern in Erfurt und Köln zwischen Januar 2000 und Dezember 2002. D.h., die empirischen Daten wurden...

Despite efforts to integrate refugee children into host country education systems, their low school attachment remains a major policy challenge. Teachers play a key role in keeping students attached to school, yet classroom diversity poses difficulties for teachers who are not always adequately...

Building on prior evidence that mothers often have a stronger preference for spending on children than fathers do, we use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of a communication training program for mothers on child health in Uganda. The hypothesis is that the training will enable...

Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...