care. However, this conceals wide variation: 63 percent of such children reside in families with no child care expenses and …

children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … characteristics, and girl children exhibit poorer nutritional status than boys. Results from a quantile decomposition procedure …

Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6 …, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with … maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …

As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health … infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality—with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality.Our OLS results yield … refugees put on the health care services in Turkey, as well as the government's response, to understand our findings on …

This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride … household strategies aimed at mitigating negative income shocks in contemporary Turkey …

Turkey hosts the highest number of refugees in the world. The arrival of Syrian refugees has significantly changed the … relative abundance of different skill groups in Turkey and the labor market conditions. This paper examines how this massive … refugee influx affects native working-age children's school enrollment and employment outcomes using a difference …

This study examines disparities in health and nutrition among native and Syrian-refugee children in Turkey. With a view … mortality between refugee children born in Turkey and native children. However, refugee infants born in Turkey have lower … particular, the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS). The TDHS is one of few data sets providing representative data on …