the employment of single parents, thereby reducing their poverty more than among two-parent households. Family allowances …

lives of children and families and how governments respond to economic crises. We calculate child poverty rates before and … examine how children’s family structure affected their chances of living in poverty. We find large variations in child poverty … changes in child poverty. Within countries, we find that children in married families have the lowest risk of poverty, except …

Expanding childcare is often considered as a suitable way to enhance employment opportunities of mothers with young … children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a … set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare slots and mothers' employment. For a variety of European welfare …