We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British … Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty … persistence is greater, and poverty exit rates in particular are lower. In both countries poverty is particularly persistent among …

In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses … measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new … insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction. …

predicted to induce increased school enrollment for children whose families wish to optimally invest in their children’s future … under-enroll their children. …

alleviate child poverty concerns and financial constraints to having children. …In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500 …+ program which provides cash transfers to families with two or more children, and low-income, one-child families. Using a …

papers, and two policy notes on Out of School Children (OOSC) in the Philippines. These PIDS papers examined the magnitude of … years, largely the waves of the Annual Poverty Indicator Surveys from 2008 to 2013, as well as from administrative data from … the reasons why these children are out of school, and what makes children at risk of dropping out of school; and, discuss …