focus mainly on the role of cash benefit packages, or on government expenditure, disregarding the actual costs families face … evaluations and aims at contributing to existing studies by: (1) empirically assessing the needs and costs of children across … compare the essential out-of-pocket costs of children between 6 and 18 years old with the simulated cash benefit packages. The …

In this paper, we estimate consumption in the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey for … a subset of countries that account for around 85% of the aggregate final consumption expenditure of households in the … questions on consumption asked to households participating in the survey and information on consumption collected in the …