In this paper we explore the association between family income and children’s cognitive ability (IQ and school … characteristics and home environments of low income children in accounting for different outcomes. Using rich cohort data from the UK … we find that poor children are disadvantaged at age 7 to 9 across the full spectrum of outcomes, the gradient being …

preserving the profitability of the educational investmentand offering deferred and income-contingent payments. Using income … investment is likely to be affected by higher privatecontributions. We then evaluate the effect of income-contingent and deferred … paymentmechanisms on lifetime net income and its capacity to account for graduates’ abilityto pay, considering numerous ways of …

students. It isnot clear, however, that these differences in attendance are caused by income itselfrather than by parental … needed as families potentially differ in unobservable waysthat are correlated with both income and attendance. In this paper … we use families withseveral children to correct for unobserved time-invariant family fixed effects. Ourresults suggest …

incomes and giving benefits in cash andkind to households redistributes income from rich to poor. The first attempt to do … in kind are treated as income.[...] …

-life balancepolicies benefit lower-income groups. This paper reports findings from a study, basedon in-depth interviews with 42 … economically active parents from a low-incomeneighbourhood. Participants supported the idea of work-life balance, but many foundit …

fact that age variation in thereforms favoured low-income families over higher-income ones and familieswith children age …-being of children in lowincomefamilies. We examine changes in expenditure patterns and ownership ofdurable goods for low- and … higher-income families between the pre-reformperiod (1995-1998) and the post-reform period (2000-2003), using data fromthe …

. This paper contributes to this knowledge by examining the income mobility experienced by older people living in Britain and …. The comparative perspective yields insights about the different income experience of older people in the two markedly … different welfare regimes. Results show that old-age income mobility is more pronounced in Britain than in Germany, and that in …

. Subjective assessments of financial well-being at time t, for individuals with a given income level, are compared according to … the income trajectory of the individual over the previous one to nine years. Descriptive statistics are followed by … scaling of satisfaction.The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …

There is a growing literature that shows that higher family income is associatedwith better health for children …. Wealthier parents may have more advantagedchildren because they have more income to buy health care or because parentalwealth is … associated with beneficial behaviours or because parental health isassociated with both income and children’s health. The policy …