. A review of the literature demonstrates that such an analysis needs to explicitly recognize that gender, poverty and … income of their own, relative poverty rates are lower. The comparative analyses, combined with a review of the literature … their own - thus reinforcing the potential for poverty reduction. Moreover, institutional contexts that are generally …

amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by … maternal education, but only when both the educational gradient of single motherhood and the child poverty gap by single …

This paper draws on the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) microdata to paint a portrait of child poverty across a diverse … group of countries, as of 2004-2006. We will first synthesize past LIS-based research on child poverty, focusing on studies … that aim to explain cross-national variation in child poverty rates. Our empirical sections will focus on child poverty in …