Most welfare states design their tax/benefit system to combat income poverty. Some countries are more effective in … poverty alleviation than others. What can explain these variations in outcomes and effectiveness? And has the redistributive … transfers and income taxes in alleviating poverty. We focus on 49 LIS-countries for the period 1967-2016. We compare relative …

affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …

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 …

lives of children and families and how governments respond to economic crises. We calculate child poverty rates before and …, and less unionization. While prior studies have examined within-country and cross-country variation in child poverty …, we quantify the impact that market, social policy transfers, and taxes had on child poverty. Last, within countries, we …

of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …