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 …

This paper aims to better understand the income factors that influenced child poverty rates across a group of four … diverse middle-income countries in 2010. We use data from LIS to analyze child poverty using harmonized measures of income in …, protected children from higher rates of child poverty? For this question, we disaggregated incomes to identify tax and transfer …

The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in … different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and … poverty reduction. Overall, middle-income nations have witnessed continuous reductions in their extreme child poverty rates …

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 … market activity affect child poverty generally in the expected way. Taking advantage of the longitudinal data at the country …

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 …

state taking child poverty as case of study. I use the LIS Database and cross-nationally compare six countries: Brazil … assess in each country to what extent taxes and government transfers reduce the child poverty generated by the market. I use …: Wave VIII (2010), Wave XIX (2013) and Wave X (2016). I cross-nationally compare the relative child poverty at 40%, 50%, and …

nations. These data also allow estimates of the effects of social transfers that reduce poverty amongst all families with …-income poverty rates and greater disposable income poverty rates than do children in native-born families by a factor of about 2 to 1 … migrant families in France and Sweden are in poverty; however, after transfers, these rates are more than halved in these …

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 …

Marriage and work have long been central to debates regarding poverty and the family. Although ample research … demonstrate their negative association with child poverty, both marriage and work have undergone major transformations over recent … decades. Consequently, it is plausible that their association with child poverty may have also changed. Using ten waves of U …