vice products (alcohol, cigarettes and gambling). Having a working mother increases child expenditure on food products and … toys. A higher parental budget share, on any given commodity, is generally associated with an increased child budget share …

vice products (alcohol, cigarettes and gambling). Having a working mother increases child expenditure on food products and … toys. A higher parental budget share, on any given commodity, is generally associated with an increased child budget share …

In an influential study Case et al. (2002) documented a positive relationship between family income and child health in … the US, with the slope of the gradient being larger for older than younger children. In this paper we explore the child … accordance with Case et al. (2002), we find consistent and robust evidence of a significant family income gradient in child …

Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health … the probability of a child being left-handed is not related to the socioeconomic characteristics of the family, such as …

A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic … child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether … these differences are systematically related to observable child and parent characteristics, and examine the implications of …