Children of single mothers face higher rates of poverty than children in two-parent households in practically every … not significantly related to poverty, but welfare generosity, namely family allowances, significantly reduce the odds of … poverty. Further, while the effects of family allowance spending are similar for children in both single mother and two parent …

the income packages of lone mothers, 2) the proportion of lone mothers receiving child maintenance and the level of child … UK, labour income is an important source of income for lone mothers and less than 40 percent of income comes from social … transfers. Child maintenance contributes significantly to the income of lone mothers, particularly in Spain, followed by the USA …

decisions, and use the behavioral estimates to derive the policy parameters that would have minimized poverty among lone mothers …Lone mothers are overrepresented among the poor in many European countries, with detrimental consequences for them and … their children. Even in Norway, which is known for its successful economic and welfare development, lone mothers were at …

(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers ́labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform …

, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in … support also reduces poverty intensity and incidence, although not to a large extent. …

In this study, we examined to what extent family policies differently affect poverty among single-parent households and …, family policies reduced poverty to a greater extent among single-parent households. Paid leave more effectively facilitated … the employment of single parents, thereby reducing their poverty more than among two-parent households. Family allowances …

unpacks the patterns of the cash and in-kind components of the monthly family benefit packages that US low-income single … mothers accessed during and after the Great Recession. We used the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation and an … innovative analytic procedure involving family benefit package plots, group-based trajectory modeling, and logistic regression …