This article analyzes the incidence of social spending and taxation by income quintile for seven Latin American countries, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Absolute levels of social spending in Latin America are fairly flat across income quintiles, a pattern similar to that in the...

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Infanticide News in the London Times: 1822–1871 -- 1 Personal Tragedies, Public Narratives: 1822–1833 -- 2 A Press Campaign and the 1834 New Poor Law --...