The Belgian government's Children First initiative has been funding a pilot project to set up local 'consultation platforms' on child poverty. The platforms engage a wide range of local actors - from e.g. anti-poverty associations to child daycare centres, schools, sports clubs and student...

This paper is the first to provide, in the European context, credible causal estimates for the impact on educational achievement of a means-tested programme that subsidises school lunches. We use administrative data from the city of Barcelona for the whole universe of applications to the...

This paper investigates how a change in marital status can influence labour market-related child penalties, by comparing married couples and those whose marriage is dissolved after the birth of their first child. We take advantage of the rich administrative data from New Zealand and show that...