The new children’s allowances1 (“child benefit”) program in the United Kingdom recently completed its 3-year phase-in period, begun in 1977. The new program is the first major reform of family support since the introduction of children’s allowances in 1946. It merges two kinds of allowances that previously benefited families with childrenthe taxable social security cash payments made to all fam...

abstract aim and background: studying the role of background causes and biomarkers on early onset cardiovascular diseases' incidence as one important issue is need for prevention of these diseases. the purpose of this study was to identify the role of background factors and biomarkers for early onset cardiovascular diseases' incidence. methods and materials: in a descriptive study with cross-se...

Background: A wide array of Socioeconomic Status (SES) indicators show differential effects for the members of diverse social groups. Researchers know a little about the ethnic variation and the effects of family income on delay discounting which is the predictor of risk behaviors. Objectives: This study examined the effect of family income and its differences on delayed gratification between ...

Using data from the 2010 China Family Panel Study and countyand industry-level statistics, we estimate cross-classified multilevel models to examine the determinants of the income gap among Chinese workers. Results show that both regional and industrial differences are important sources of income inequality in China. Taken together, they account for about one fifth of the total variation in ind...

BACKGROUND The associations between socioeconomic status and community-acquired pneumonia outcomes in adults have been studied although studies did not always document a relationship.The aim of this multicenter observational study was to determine the association between socioeconomic status and community-acquired pneumonia outcomes in the elderly, in the context of a public health system provi...

INTRODUCTION Asthma is one of the leading causes of school absenteeism. Previous studies have shown that school absenteeism is related to family income of individual students. However, there is little research examining whether school absenteeism is related to school-level concentration of low-income students, independent of family income. The objective of this study was to examine whether the ...

We examine the impact of recent state-level Medicaid policy changes that expanded eligibility for family planning services to higher-income women and to Medicaid clients whose benefits would expire otherwise. We show that the income-based policy change reduced overall births to non-teens by about 2% and to teens by over 4%; estimates suggest a decline of 9% among newly eligible women. The reduc...

We consider 3 questions regarding the effects of economic deprivation on child development. First, how are developmental outcomes in childhood affected by poverty and such poverty correlates as single parenthood, ethnicity, and maternal education? Second, what are the developmental consequences of the duration and timing of family economic deprivation? And, third, what is the comparative influe...