This study assesses the role of social spending in relation to child poverty in European welfare states. Using macro … are targeted. We separately estimate the effect of pension benefits on child poverty, as the prevalence of … substantially reduce child poverty. Increased targeting also leads to lower poverty rates, but the effect sizes are more modest by …

We assess the impact of redistributive policy on child poverty across 29 European welfare states, using EU SILC 2005 … children. Pensions are generally neglected in analyses on child poverty, but are relevant through the presence of two …

children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a …

child poverty, and (iii) we test how sensitive this impact is to hypotheses about the way resources are shared in the … child poverty in countries where MGH is most prevalent …

average child. Using the county-level introduction of U.S. family planning programs between 1964 and 1973, we find that …