of the distribution. Analysis of the incidence of low birthweight and short birthlength using measures from the poverty …

This paper examines multidimensional poverty for three waves of a cohort of Irish children ranging from ages 9 to 17 … is higher for children whose mothers have lower levels of education, with net movements into rather than out of poverty. …. Poverty is measured over the dimensions of health, education and family resources and both unidimensional and multidimensional …

. Such taxes have been criticised on the basis of their regressivity and potentially adverse impact upon poverty. This paper … analyses the effect of such taxes on a range of poverty measures and also examines the effect of a revenueneutral tax subsidy … neutral with respect to poverty. …