makes to the reduction of child poverty. The countries compared are Canada, UK, USA, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and … maintenance makes in reducing overall child poverty is minimal but it can reduce child poverty among non-widowed lone mother … reducing child poverty. This article uses the Luxembourg Income Study datasets from circa 2004 to analyse the contribution …

-income poverty rates and greater disposable income poverty rates than do children in native-born families by a factor of about 2 to 1 … (EU-SILC) allow estimates of the extent to which immigrant and nonimmigrant children are poor across a wide range of rich … nations. These data also allow estimates of the effects of social transfers that reduce poverty amongst all families with …

Children of single mothers face higher rates of poverty than children in two-parent households in practically every … poverty and, as a result, little consensus on the best way to address poverty among these children. Explanations include both … poverty. Further, while the effects of family allowance spending are similar for children in both single mother and two parent …

reductions in child poverty. This research note uses micro-data from more than 50 countries, and US data spanning more than 50 … years, to place the 2021 child poverty rate in historical and international perspective. We demonstrate that whether using … the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), relative poverty measures, or an absolute poverty measure, the US child poverty …

There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …

support for care both inside and outside of the home. We examine differences between women who are mothers of children and … children are very young; and 4) the earner-carer strategy, focused on helping men and women balance care and work through … other women on three outcomes labor force participation rates, wage rates, and poverty rates, analyzing the effects of …

poverty with a multi-level analysis across 18 affluent democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all …. By far, the U.S. has the highest rate of poverty among single mothers. The analyses show that single mother poverty is a … countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single mother poverty than for poverty among the overall population …

Recent analysis has suggested that poverty rates, and their variation across rich countries, is driven much less by the … prevalence of certain risks than by the poverty penaltyattached to the risks. Focusing on single motherhood as a poverty risk, it … condition on the major mechanisms through which poverty risks are heightened: the risk of non-employment, and of having only a …