children and childless families. Families with children, regardless of having one or two parent, had very high rates of poverty …The aim is to assess the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance. We will examine the … incidence of poverty among the recipients in relation to the general poverty profile. To answer these questions, the adequacy …

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 …

of gender equality, the U.S. ranks above average in paid working time among dual-earner couples with no children, but …

developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …

Past literature on the family gap - the difference in outcomes for mothers and women without children - discusses …

children in large families more likely to be in poverty than children in smaller families? Aggregate and survey microdata from … Western countries. The analysis finds, not surprisingly, that children in large families are more likely to be in poverty than … allowances to larger families, the probability of children being in poverty does not increase with family size once parents …

This paper presents stylized facts about the effect of children on household disposable income and its components (the …-national differences in the impact of children on household disposable income are substantial and systematic. Speaking generally, we find … that cross-national differences in the impact of children on disposable income are determined largely by the differences in …