investments in children contribute to a levelled playing field and promote social mobility. However, gaps in learning outcomes … between children of rich and poor parents remain as high in Nordic countries as elsewhere in Europe. One explanation for this … paradox is that the equalizing impacts of public investments are undone by parental investments in children of rich and poor …

(EU-SILC) allow estimates of the extent to which immigrant and nonimmigrant children are poor across a wide range of rich … children. For all of the fourteen countries in the combined sample, children in migrant families have greater market …-income poverty rates and greater disposable income poverty rates than do children in native-born families by a factor of about 2 to 1 …

Recent years have witnessed widespread acknowledgement in both academic and policy circles that children deserve a … special focus in poverty measurement. It is now generally accepted that children have different basic needs from adults and … deprivation indicators at domain level in four EU Member States (Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom). Overall …