This paper investigates the real living standards and poverty status of United States children in the 1990's compared … to the children in 17 other nations, including Europe, Scandinavia, Canada and Australia. We find that American low …-income children have lower real spendable income than do comparable children in almost every other nation studied. In contrast, high …

This paper estimates the redistributive effects of welfare state expenditures on children and disparities in the … economic well-being of children in ten nations and relates the two. Data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and … to construct measures of the differences in the relative standard of living among children at various points in the …

structure and in the structure of their labor markets during the past two decades, their child poverty rates vary dramatically … changes that have affected children in all advanced economies. The authors find that differences in public policies account … for a significant portion of the variation in poverty rates and find that the differences reflect differing social and …

a low poverty rate. We compare the effectiveness of United States antipoverty policies to that of similar polices … learned about antipoverty policy by American voters and policymakers. The United States has one of the highest poverty rates … of all the countries participating in the LIS, whether poverty is measured using an absolute or a relative standard for …

Using regional incomes as the reference group, disposable income poverty rates are computed for the two most recent … regions. We find that the countries we examine have patterns of regional poverty that help us better understand the national …