This paper draws on the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) microdata to paint a portrait of child poverty across a diverse … group of countries, as of 2004–2006. We will first synthesize past LIS-based research on child poverty, focusing on studies … that aim to explain cross-national variation in child poverty rates. Our empirical sections will focus on child poverty in …

extending Dollar and Kraay’s data, their findings are robust to the Lucas critique and economic growth is important for poverty … adding a further contribution to the literature on financial development and poverty. …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

This study provides empirical evidence on recent trends in poverty among working families based on the headcount rate … and a broader alternative that incorporates the headcount rate, the depth of poverty, and income inequality among the poor … working poverty for the sample period, while the alternative index showed no statistically significant change. The same result …