This paper examines multidimensional poverty for three waves of a cohort of Irish children ranging from ages 9 to 17 …. Poverty is measured over the dimensions of health, education and family resources and both unidimensional and multidimensional … multidimensional poverty is also analysed. The greatest degree of mobility is observed with respect to family resources. Mobility also …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …

measurement of multidimensional poverty based on the CWI and health status. Third, stochastic dominance approaches are used to …This paper generates multidimensional poverty profiles for women and children over a ten-year period from 1993 to 2003 …. We also find that the CWI and residence in a rural area respectively contribute more to multidimensional poverty than …

We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi-dimensional … approaches, first-order dominance (FOD) and Alkire-Foster (AF). Between 1991/92 and 2010, remarkably similar area rankings emerge … in the middle. The methodologies also complement each other by providing upper and lower bounds on underlying welfare …

and economic inequality.The incarceration of a caregiver can hamstring a child’s development and leave already struggling … families financially strapped. As the parent-child bond is critical to a child’s development, the severance of that bond by the … into poverty or be at risk of homelessness. Additional strain is placed upon these families via the costs of prison phone …

growth has been accompanied by improvements in multidimensional child welfare using a first-order dominance approach applied … growth in the 2000s along with a reduction in rural consumption poverty. This paper evaluates the extent to which recent … do not indicate broad-based welfare advancement at the national, urban, or rural levels, they do suggest progress within …

, employment, earnings, and poverty. [This article comments on articles in a welfare symposium in this issue of the Eastern …The papers included in this [welfare] symposium provide excellent examples of this growing body of research. The most … important issues addressed by these papers are whether the effects of welfare reform are similar in urban and rural areas and …

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal …