Das Thema Kinderarmut ist in der Bundesrepublik zu einem viel beachteten Thema in der politischen Auseinandersetzung …

This paper investigates the long-term effect of child poverty on labor market outcomes using a 14-year span of data …

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden … disproportionally large fraction of children with backgrounds from low- and middle-income countries live in poor neighbourhoods … using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much …

An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and … families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children … experiences parental incarceration today, compared to one in 125 children in 1985. Black children are particularly affected by …

poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which … results. We show that the degree of income replacement provided by the welfare state is higher for childbirth than for divorce …. Countries with low post-childbirth poverty include those with an explicit pro-natalist orientation and socio-democratic regimes …

This Article presents an original empirical analysis demonstrating that low-income families experience far greater … income fluctuations than higher-income families and, as a result, taxation of annual income disproportionately burdens low-income … families. The author proposes two simple income averaging devices to redress this effect: averaging the Earned Income Tax …

economic and social costs for both individuals and societies. Disadvantaged children often fall behind in skills development …

Growing up in socio-economic disadvantage has important and long-lasting effects on children’s lives. Children from …