socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on … children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well …'s occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their …

among children. To flesh out our analyses of poverty reduction based on microdata, we shift vantage points and take a brief … reduction (due to redistribution, based on the LIS microdata). After assessing poverty and poverty reduction among all children …, we consider two crucial risk factors that, within countries, shape children’s likelihood of being poor: family structure …

The article addresses the proper balance between (a) preventing harm to children participating in reality TV and … preventing injury to privacy, and (b) the freedom of expression of the participating children, the commercial freedom of speech … is generally believed that TV channels often exploit the desire of children and of their parents to become famous by …