This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden … using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much …

show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …

falling family size contributed significantly to improving child health between 1886 and 1938. Between 1906 and 1938 these …

their mothers may be less mature, have fewer financial resources when the child is young, and may partner with fathers of … ages. Our evidence suggests that the causal effect of being a child of a teen mother is much smaller than that implied by … negative selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes …

focuses upon comparisons between East and West Germany, by family structure, and citizenship status. Child poverty rates have … the incidence of child poverty and its dynamics between East and West Germany …