Using 1977-1979, 1994-1996, and 2006-2008 data from the SCF and SLID, a decomposition analysis of senior poverty rates … characteristics affect senior’s likelihood of poverty, can help explain historical changes in senior poverty rates. The results show … that changes in characteristics can explain relatively small changes in senior poverty rates, with changes in education …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective … experiencing key life events, such as partnership formation, having children, or retirement; this in turn affects their probability … of experiencing rising, falling, or other income trajectories. Using ten waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we …

Child poverty is firmly on the policy agenda in many OECD countries. One of the main issues in the debate is the … appropriate balance between the so-called “benefits strategy” (increasing the adequacy of benefits for low-income families with … children) and the so-called “work strategy” (promoting policies to increase employment among poor families). The need to choose …

poverty and, other hand, to identify the existence of child welfare inequality and then analyse their sources in four WAEMU … countries like: Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Niger and Togo. Basing our methodology on multidimensional poverty approach, the … results show that some factors explain the child poverty in these countries: the access to the vitamin A, the quality of …

analysis finds evidence of both income and poverty convergence among municipalities. As a cause of these, the results point to …Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The … analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps covering almost 2,400 municipalities in Mexico …

poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure …

the survey on fields such as the design of a minimum income scheme, the evaluation of energy poverty from a child … this survey by the Office of the High Commissioner against Child Poverty in Spain. This Office used the Spanish version of … perspective, the changing dynamics of poverty according to country of origin, or the impact of housing costs on poverty. On the …

providing income support to families with children. In this paper we provide an in-depth assessment of the income support to … families with children in Spain. We distinguish between three different forms of income support: (1) benefits aimed to ease the …. Nevertheless, the total income support to families with children is redistributive in relative terms, this effect being mainly …