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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …