A time of need: Exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK

Ruth Patrick, Aaron Reeves and Kitty Stewart

CASE Papers from Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE

Abstract: Child poverty in the UK has seen rapid change over the last two decades, broadly falling from the late 1990s until 2012/13 and rising since then. As a result, child poverty rates converged with rates of poverty for working-age non-parents before diverging again. This paper examines these changes through the lens of family size, asking how horizontal inequalities have changed over this period between larger families - those with three or more children - and smaller families with one or two. Focusing on data from before the pandemic, we look at trends in poverty rates for the two groups and explore alternative explanatory factors - including changes in the composition of larger families, differential employment rates, and differences in the impact of social security support.

Keywords: child poverty; family size; social security; benefits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 I32 I38 J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-07
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