The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the …

them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? …The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children …, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal …

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg … the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty … child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. …

quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed …This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita …

long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is examined. The rich countries differ … significantly in the extent to which parental economic status is related to the labour market success of children in adulthood. The …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such …

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the caring preferences of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 …); Blundell et al. (2005)]. This paper seeks to determine whether children of a certain age are decision-makers. We focus on the …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century … deficiencies. We use these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904. Applying Bowley's poverty line we find that … close to Rowntree's estimate of primary poverty for York 1899 and in the range that Bowley found in Northern towns in 1912 …