The aim of this paper is to assess the associations between income poverty, family instability and cognitive development in early childhood.
20 April 2011
17 December 2010
7 June 2023
This paper explores the role of individual experiences and school characteristics in determining changes in disengagement between the age of 14 and 16.
1 June 2010
All the main UK political parties claim to have put the needs of families at the heart of their campaigns. The Conservative Party has also pledged to end the couple penalty for all couples in the tax credit system. How does the reality - as measured by specific pledges in their manifestos - match up to the rhetoric?
29 April 2010
This note compares three policies that have been recently suggested which would change the way that families with children are treated by the tax and benefit system.
11 January 2010
Previous analysis suggests that some children in households with low income do not have commensurately low living standards. This report aims to document the extent to which this is true.
7 May 2009
New research shows that raising the level of mothers’ education pays large intergenerational returns with kids benefiting, for example, from extra parental investment in their education.
22 November 2007
There is a striking increase in inequality in children's home environments over the last 50 years (McLanahan, 2004). These are measured as differences in age of mothers of young children (below 5), maternal employment, single motherhood, divorce during the first 10 years of marriage, father's involvement, and family income, for mothers with different levels of education. This trend is cause for great concern because the home environment is probably the best candidate for explaining inequality in child development.
19 September 2007
18 April 2006
In the previous edition, we argued that governments might care about child poverty for reasons of equity and efficiency, and we introduced the concept of an equivalence scale as a way to help compare well-being across different sorts of households.
1 April 2003
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