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The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted...
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children. We use a dynamic multinomial logit panel data model with random effects, explaining the reliance of each individual …
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having children; partnering at age 24 and having one child at age 27; partnering at age 24 and having two children, at ages … 25 and 27; and partnering at age 24, having two children at ages 25 and 27, and then living without a partner from ages …
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The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries - the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335564
In an age when there is considerable focus on the needs and rights of children, it is perhaps a little surprising that … parental income still mostly determines the standard of living that children enjoy. This has important implications, not just … in terms of overall levels of welfare for children, but also in terms of equity between children. This paper looks at the …
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This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …
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This paper provides an early analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not apply to the very different post-reform environment. We use data from the 1997 National Survey of...
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We examine the impact of high school graduation on the probability individuals from welfare backgrounds use welfare themselves. Our data consists of administrative educational records for grade 12 students in a Canadian province linked with their own and their parents' welfare records. We...
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