amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by … maternal education, but only when both the educational gradient of single motherhood and the child poverty gap by single …

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 …

This article introduces fiscal impoverishment as a novel framework for comparative poverty research. We invert standard … analyses of welfare state policy and household poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but poverty creation and … finance the public sector serve to push households (further) into poverty. We estimate that across rich democracies on average …

among children. To flesh out our analyses of poverty reduction based on microdata, we shift vantage points and take a brief … reduction (due to redistribution, based on the LIS microdata). After assessing poverty and poverty reduction among all children …This paper assesses child poverty in 24 high- and middle-income countries, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study …

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

2000), and Wave #5 data was unavailable for some countries. More Wave #5 data is available, and some data for Wave #6 … size of the middle class in the early 2000s. In addition, my earlier work focused only on aggregate tax and spending by … that provide income to older households. Third, there are policies that assist families with children (child or family …

-government poverty rates climb by three to four percentage points once we account for households’ medical expenses. We find that …