Children (under 15 years of age) growing up in poor and/or nutritionally deprived households also live with a number of … poverty used in this paper. These enrich our understanding but do not directly deal with children growing up in absolute … number of children and the household size in very-poor, poor, non-poor low income and non-poor high income households from …

birth rates. The analyses investigate the effects for families with under-3 year-old children, with 3-6 year-old children … effects of publicly-subsidised child care on families. The study conducts an ex-post analysis of publicly-subsidised child … care on the following outcomes: female labor force participation, families' financial stability and social involvement and …

earnings as the main source of income among low income families with children. Second, changes in the fertility behavior and …-birth until later ages when earnings are higher. Although more children do find themselves in single parent families, this change … real and relative earnings of young adults under the age of 35. Despite the fact that most young children live in …

fundamental tool in providing financial assistance to poor working families. Even today, however, thirty-two million children live … in families that cannot support basic living expenses, and sixteen million of those live in extreme poverty. This Article … working families. The Article concludes that the elimination of outdated citizenship or residency requirements would reduce …

substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families. …Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family … disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower achievement scores, and fewer high-school completions …

substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families …Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family … disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower achievement scores, and fewer high-school completions …

Child poverty is high on the government's agenda. In order to reduce the rate of low-income among children, one has to … either reduce the number of children flowing into low-income, or increase the number flowing out. But what is behind such … asks to what extent this movement of children is determined by (1) changes in family status of the parents of children, or …

Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child …

find that families placed in shelters in their neighborhoods of origin remain there considerably longer than those assigned … to distant shelters. Locally-placed families also access more public benefits and are more apt to work. A fixed effects … model assessing multi-spell families confirms these main results. Complementary instrumental variable and regression …

currently receiving or applying for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) to enroll in training or register to work … would be unlikely to earn enough to adequately provide for themselves and their children. Many of these women are not likely … to find employment that offers health insurance coverage for themselves or their children. Employment is thus not an …