This paper uses the severe economic crisis in Turkey in 2008 as a quasi-experiment to evaluate the impact of worsening … are mainly observed in children born to mothers with low socioeconomic status, suggesting that credit constraints may be a … significant factor in the impact of economic crises on birth outcomes in Turkey. Our study also demonstrates that mothers residing …

. And with a relatively young population, the poverty situation concerns largely children who are at the critical stages of … their physical, mental, and social development. This report provides a comprehensive profile of children who are living in … that in 2009, 13.4 million or over a third of all children aged below 18 are living below the poverty line. Both the …