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Children in Large Families: Disadvantaged or Just Different?
Redmond, Gerry - 2000
children in small families. However, the analysis also finds that in those countries which give higher per-child family … allowances to larger families, the probability of children being in poverty does not increase with family size once parents …
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Neuer Kinderzuschlag, Wohngeldreform, höhere Hartz-IV-Regelsätze: Insbesondere für Familien deutliche Einkommenssteigerungen
Meister, Wolfgang - In: ifo Schnelldienst 62 (2009) 16, pp. 19-31
der einzelnen Maßnahmen auf das verfügbare Haushaltseinkommen für ausgewählte Familientypen in Abhängigkeit vom …
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The changing cost of childcare
Farquharson, Christine; Olorenshaw, Harrie - 2022
Early education and childcare can have a critical impact both on helping children to develop and in supporting parents (especially mothers) to work. But childcare can also have a significant impact on the disposable income - and, hence, living standards - of families with very young children....
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Child support and educational outcomes: Evidence from the British household panel survey
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2008
There is some evidence to support the view that Child Support (CS), despite low compliance rates and a strong interaction with the welfare system, has played a positive role in reducing child poverty among non-intact families. However, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on...
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The British household panel survey and its income data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2010
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...
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Can I just check...? Effects of edit check questions on measurement error and survey estimates
Lugtig, Peter; Jäckle, Annette - 2011
Household income is difficult to measure, since it requires collecting information about all potential income sources for each member of a household. We assess the effects of two types of edit check questions on measurement error and survey estimates: within-wave edit checks use responses to...
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The effects on stature of poverty, family size and birth order: British children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - 2008
quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … in Britain. Our results provide strong support both for negative birth order effects and negative family size effects on … positively influences the heights of children but, even after accounting for this, the number of children in the family still has …
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The structure of income in elderly households and relative poverty rates in Japan from the viewpoint of international comparisons
Murozumi, Masako; Shikata, Masato - 2008
We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone, couples only, living with their married children, living...
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Fertility and family income on the move: An international comparison over 20 Years
Dickmann, Nicola - 2003
different sources of family income try to clarify the reasons behind the observed developments over time. Furthermore, the often … family members. The paper ends with a brief discussion of the political implications of the findings. …
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Tax Privileges for Families in an International Comparison
Meister, Wolfgang; Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 1, pp. 42-45
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