Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain …, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in … providing income support to families with children. In this paper we provide an in-depth assessment of the income support to …

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 …

children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a … findings suggest that to achieve significant poverty reductions among young children, both additional childcare slots and … states we estimate the impact on poverty and on the government budget using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD. The …

outcomes and disparities among school children from disadvantaged backgrounds in Africa. This study employs data from … Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) to evaluate children's learning outcomes. Drawing from recent nationally representative data …, rural-urban disparities, family background, and disability status, on children's reading skills acquisition. Our study …

substantial changes in household size and composition, with a net movement of primarily school-age children from larger ineligible … declined by four percentage points (or 15 percent) within six months of program rollout, and the poverty headcount at the …