show that if government spending is a substitute for parental spending and parent time with the child is weakly … complementary to spending on the child, then children's human capital decreases as they become left-behind by migrant parents. This … unintended consequence of separating children from parents due to endogenous migration effects, thereby reducing child human …

This paper considers the case for universal child allowances in Ghana. It follows findings from an earlier study of 14 … middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances …. The paper describes the demographic profiles that will influence the impact of a universal child allowance: 67 per cent of …

two measures and their estimates of child poverty around the 2021 temporary changes to the Child Tax Credit (CTC). We … measures suffer from important drawbacks. We also conclude that widely publicized claims that child poverty fell by 25 percent …

occasion, we conducted large-scale online surveys of mothers whose firstborn child was aged 4 to 10 years. The results revealed …

Impacts of child benefits and earned incomes on child wellbeing are identified for Russia. To predict earnings, a … predict the probability of receipt. Child benefits are found not to be spent differently from earned incomes or to influence … child health differentially. Benefits do not observably crowd out private transfers to households containing children …

period is more beneficial to child development than an expansion of an already long leave period. Our empirical analysis … ; child development …

In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts to move economically …-related subsidies raise work levels among this group, little is known about the impact of subsidy receipt on child wellbeing. In this … paper, we identify the causal effect of child care subsidies on child development by exploiting geographic variation in the …