, the latter notably through the successful “Bolsa Familia” programme. Among public services, improved access to education … interventions such as expanding early-childhood education, by reducing grade-repetition and through more tailored support for those … incentives for teachers. Performance of public services devoted to health and transports has been mixed. Public health services …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches … increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …

combined to capture aspects of child well-being: material well-being, health, education, behaviour and risks, housing and …

This chapter focuses on neighborhood effects in housing markets. Households in effect choose neighborhood effects, or … priced by housing markets and be capitalized into housing values and rents. The chapter focuses on models that are … dimensionality. The chapter examines neighborhood choice, with endogenous and contextual neighborhood effects, and housing demand …

. It is shown that the impediments for education created by social factors are similar to a market imperfection, and … publicly provided education may lead to a Pareto improvement. Policies affecting the share of skilled release a dynamic …

part through education. In addition to the customary externality source associated with a change in average fertility rate …) Investments in education of high- and low-ability parents must be subsidized; (ii) direct child subsidies to one or both parent … types can be negative; i.e., they can be taxes; (iii) net subsidies to children (direct child subsidies plus education …