This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle …. Overall, the cross-national variation in the disposable income of disadvantaged children is comprised equally of variation in …

Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain …, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in … providing income support to families with children. In this paper we provide an in-depth assessment of the income support to …

scenarios of children's benefits. We find that between 2010/11 and 2015/16 both the relative and absolute child poverty rates … children's benefits would sustain their real value and would reduce child poverty rates substantially. … happened to child poverty in the UK in the periods 2010/11-2015/16 and 2015/16-2020/21 under a range of different indexation …

among children. To flesh out our analyses of poverty reduction based on microdata, we shift vantage points and take a brief … reduction (due to redistribution, based on the LIS microdata). After assessing poverty and poverty reduction among all children …This paper assesses child poverty in 24 high- and middle-income countries, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study …

of its deep child poverty situation, and South Africa's assistance benefit system performs better in lifting children out …The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in … different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and …

children falling into poverty. Latinx and Black children experienced the largest increases in poverty (7.1 percent and 5 … extend these enhancements to 2022. The adverse impact was immediate. The January 2022 monthly child poverty rate increased by ….9 percent, respectively). As poverty data continues to flood in from the U.S. Census Bureau and others, the evidence is …