, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Russia. As well as using standard relative poverty definitions the paper examines flows …This paper compares child poverty dynamics cross-nationally using panel data from seven nations: the USA, Britain … patterns of income mobility and poverty dynamics across the seven countries. The key exception is Russia, where the economic …

Understanding child-related costs is crucial given their impact on fertility and labour supply decisions. We quantify … due to the birth of a child (direct costs), which are largest in high-income regions. Immediate labour income losses of … mothers (indirect costs) are less important in explaining the decrease. These income losses are closely related to the …

children who now live independently. After controlling for unobserved household characteristics, no positive effect of children …'s actual household income on parents' satisfaction can be found. However, children's health and education have a positive …