Understanding child-related costs is crucial given their impact on fertility and labour supply decisions. We quantify and compare the cost of children in Europe by analysing the effect of child births on parents’ self-reported ability to make ends meet. This study is based on EU-SILC longitudinal data for 30 European countries from 2004 to 2015, enabling comparisons between country groups of different welfare regimes.
Using a nationally representative longitudinal data, this study investigated differences in the levels of obesity among foreign-born people from English Speaking and non-English Speaking countries relative to native-born Australians, and how those differences changed with duration of residence and age at arrival . This study also explored whether the association between nativity, duration of residence (DoR) and obesity is mediated by English language proficiency, socioeconomic factors and health...
