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Paxson, Christina H.; Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2007

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Children's health opportunities and project evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades program

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Beyond the income effect : impacts of conditional cash transfer programs on private investments in human capital

Cruz, Marcio; Ziegelhofer, Zacharias - 2014

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Labour income, social transfers and child poverty

Bradbury, Bruce; Jäntti, Markus; Lindahl, Lena - 2017 - Version: July 2017

This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the...

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Contribution of child maintenance on lone mothers' income in five welfare states

Hakovirta, Mia; Jokela, Merita - 2018

covers data from five countries: Finland, Germany, Spain, UK and the USA. Our results show that in all countries except the … transfers. Child maintenance contributes significantly to the income of lone mothers, particularly in Spain, followed by the USA … reveals that in the USA the lone mothers in lowest income quintile do not seem to benefit as much from child maintenance …

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Deep and extreme child poverty in rich and poor nations : lessons from Atkinson for the fight against child poverty

Cai, Yixia; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2019 - (Version: September 4th, 2019)

The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in two clusters: Anglo–Saxon high-income countries and upper middleincome countries. We also investigate the influence of different components of household income and other...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117874

Growing up in North America : child well-being in Canada, the United States, and México

Children in North America Project - 2006

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The changing association between marriage, work, and child poverty in the US : 1974 - 2010

Baker, Regina S. - 2015

Marriage and work have long been central to debates regarding poverty and the family. Although ample research demonstrate their negative association with child poverty, both marriage and work have undergone major transformations over recent decades. Consequently, it is plausible that their...

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Growing up in North America : the economic well-being of children in Canada, the United States, and Mexico

Scott, Katherine (contributor) - 2008

Globalization is changing the landscape of childhood. As part of such change, North America is also becoming more economically, socially, and culturally integrated. It is against this backdrop of economic, social, and cultural transformation that the Children in North America Project is...

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The United States' record-low child poverty rate in international and historical perspective

Parolin, Zachary; Filauro, Stefano - 2023

In 2021, the federal government of the United States (US) expanded a set of income transfers that led to strong reductions in child poverty. This research note uses micro-data from more than 50 countries, and US data spanning more than 50 years, to place the 2021 child poverty rate in historical...

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