Career prospects are also affected in the long-run since they heavily depend on soft and hard skills learned in childhood or adolescence. How family poverty affect child outcome? Two main channels play a role (Figure 1, (Duncan and Magnuson, 2013(3]))- Having low income first limits households’ ability to purchase or produce important “inputs” for healthy child development, such as good quality housing, healthy food, or good quality care and education services for children below school-age (Box 1).