This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries. In order … to make our survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty …, and that this impact is not wholly explained by other factors that are themselves correlated with childhood poverty. At …

This paper compares child poverty dynamics cross-nationally using panel data from seven nations: the USA, Britain …, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Russia. As well as using standard relative poverty definitions the paper examines flows … patterns of income mobility and poverty dynamics across the seven countries. The key exception is Russia, where the economic …