Heuveline, Patrick; Weinshenker, Matthew - 2006
Children experience a higher poverty rate in the U.S. than in most comparable nations a poverty gap traceable to … married couple and other households with children (gradient effects). Distributional effects contribute to the U.S. poverty … data, we find that child poverty rates are higher in the U.S. than in 13 out of 14 other high-income nations. The poverty …