locations over a one-dimensional interval. Parents decide whether or not to educate their children. The model therefore combines …

and overall income available to households within thedisplaced area. This information is used to produce a …

In this paper we examine the concept of "vulnerability" (Townsend 1994) within thecontext of income mobility of the … have the greatest impact on consumption, incomparison to shocks to the income stream. Quantile-specific estimates … income stream. The estimates are foundto be robust to household composition and year-specific shocks.[...] …

ofincreasing the employment of parents. We find that at its maximum,increasing paid work could roughly double the reduction in … childpoverty achieved by tax and benefit policies alone - a combined decreaseof 1.85 million children in poverty. However, a more …

neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three times the nationalaverage; Income Support claims twice as high; health and …

Gateway, London’s major growth area.Nearly half the families are lone parents and half are from an ethnic minoritybackground … havevery little control, and parents are upset by difficult housing andenvironmental conditions that they feel powerless to …

fact that age variation in thereforms favoured low-income families over higher-income ones and familieswith children age …-being of children in lowincomefamilies. We examine changes in expenditure patterns and ownership ofdurable goods for low- and … higher-income families between the pre-reformperiod (1995-1998) and the post-reform period (2000-2003), using data fromthe …

drew heavily on Sherraden’sasset-based welfare theory, and was to provide matched savings accounts forlow-income families … in the City. This paper presents the “income to assets”policy shift process and a research summary on the participants to …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamicsbenefits from taking a life cycle perspective. A … life events, such as partnership formation, having children, orretirement; this in turn affects their probability of … experiencing rising, falling, orother income trajectories. Using ten waves of the British Household PanelSurvey, we analyse the …

The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A povertylevel of 60 percent of median equivalised income … Survey, on which government estimatesof Households Below Average Income are based. There was a smallreduction in poverty … to changes in benefits and tax credits which increased for some,particularly for families on low earnings with children …