Review of <i>Child Well-Being, Child Poverty and Child Policy in Modern Nations</i> by Koen Vleminckx and Timothy M. Smeeding and <i>The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialized Countries</i> by Bruce Bradbury, Stephen P. Jenkins, and John Micklewright Copyright 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

type="main" <p>We build on cross-national research to examine the relationships underlying estimates of relative intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain using harmonized longitudinal data and focusing on men. We examine several pathways by which parental status is related...</p>

While much of the evidence suggests that there was an increase in inequality in the United States during the 1980s, the reasons are less evident. Using the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey data, the authors find that the inequality of consumption-expenditures, as well as the inequality of other...

There are concerns that the unprecedented economic boom which Ireland experienced in the second half of the 1990s has raised only some living standards and has widened income gaps. This paper analyzes Ireland's income distribution in comparative perspective, to understand how Ireland's...