Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain … providing income support to families with children. In this paper we provide an in-depth assessment of the income support to … families with children in Spain. We distinguish between three different forms of income support: (1) benefits aimed to ease the …

in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often … meagre or not available at all. The paper examines the effect of family transfers (used broadly to include contributory … family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain …

Ghanaian households contain children, and those households contain 82 per cent of the total population, spreading the impact of … children. …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … from state social protection systems compared to other agegroups. The results show that children are disproportionately …-simulations are used to examine how a universal approach that allocates transfers to all children aged 0-17 can be adapted to optimise …

Using the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD and Family Resources Survey, we investigate what would have … scenarios of children's benefits. We find that between 2010/11 and 2015/16 both the relative and absolute child poverty rates … would have been lower if children's benefits were uprated by RPI or if the government had introduced the Child Tax Credit …

We investigate the impact of the Romanian and Czech family policy systems on the income distribution and poverty risk … of families with children. We focus on separating out the effects of the policy design itself, size of the benefits and …

fundamental tool in providing financial assistance to poor working families. Even today, however, thirty-two million children live …

children. Pensions are generally neglected in analyses on child poverty, but are relevant through the presence of two …, partially offsetting, forces. Increased pension spending weakens the relative income position of children, but pensions also … substantially contribute to the household income of children from multigenerational households. This ambiguous result signals a …