interest. One way to examine differences between societies in this respect is to study the extent and severity of income … poverty between countries and over time. While poverty can be thought of in many different ways, examining income poverty has … a long tradition. This chapter (Draft of Chapter 10 in Handbook on Income Distribution, edited by A.B. Atkinson and F …

ways; (c) within countries, family demography and parents' labor market engagement are the main factors that shape children …We draw on LIS' various resources to sketch a portrait of child poverty in upper-income countries. We first summarize … poverty levels. Our empirical sections focus on child poverty in 13 upper-income countries. We begin with a descriptive …