Does household income affect children's outcomes? A systematic review of the evidence

K Cooper, K Stewart - Child Indicators Research, 2021 - Springer
There is abundant evidence that children in low income households do less well than their
peers on a range of developmental outcomes. However, there is continuing uncertainty …

Health and inequality

O O'Donnell, E Van Doorslaer, T Van Ourti - Handbook of income …, 2015 - Elsevier
We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing
the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality …

[HTML][HTML] The infant health effects of starting universal child benefits in pregnancy: evidence from England and Wales

M Reader - Journal of Health Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Child benefits are typically paid from birth. This paper asks whether starting universal child
benefits in pregnancy leads to improvements in infant health. Leveraging administrative birth …

Does money affect children's outcomes? An update

K Cooper, K Stewart - 2017 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
This report provides an update to Does Money Affect Children's Outcomes?: A Systematic
Review, published in October 2013. Using systematic search approaches, we review the …

Money transfer and birth weight: evidence from the Alaska permanent fund dividend

W Chung, H Ha, B Kim - Economic Inquiry, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The positive relationship between income and health is well established. However, the
direction of causality remains unclear: do economic resources influence health, or vice …

Does maternal employment affect child nutrition status? New evidence from Egypt

AS Rashad, MF Sharaf - Oxford Development Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Even though maternal employment can increase family income, several studies suggest that
it could have adverse consequences on children's health. In this study, we use a nationally …

Chinese yellow dust and Korean infant health

DT Altindag, D Baek, N Mocan - Social Science & Medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Naturally-occurring Yellow Dust outbreaks, which are produced by winds flowing to
Korea from China and Mongolia, create air pollution. Although there is a seasonal pattern of …

Maternal Employment and Child Malnutrition in Ecuador

J Andrade, J Gil - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: This paper estimates the causal impact of maternal employment on childhood
malnutrition status in Ecuador to understand the trade-off between the time mothers devote …

Intergenerational health effects of Medicaid

H Noghanibehambari - Economics & Human Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the effects of the introduction of Medicaid during the 1960s on next
generations' birth outcomes. A federal mandate that all states must widen the coverage to all …

Family income and mothers' parenting quality: Within-family associations from infancy to late childhood

CMP Lombardi - Children and Youth Services Review, 2021 - Elsevier
The goal of this study was to assess how changes in income were associated with changes
in mothers' parenting quality from infancy through late childhood. There is limited existing …