Child Poverty in the European Union: the Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis Approach (EU-MODA)

Yekaterina Chzhen (), Chris Neubourg, Ilze Plavgo and Marlous Milliano
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Yekaterina Chzhen: UNICEF Office of Research
Chris Neubourg: Tilburg University
Ilze Plavgo: UNICEF Office of Research
Marlous Milliano: UNICEF Office of Research

Child Indicators Research, 2016, vol. 9, issue 2, No 3, 335-356

Abstract: Abstract Poverty has serious consequences for children’s well-being as well as for their achievements in adult life. The Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis for the European Union (EU-MODA) compares the living conditions of children across the EU member states. Rooted in the established multidimensional poverty measurement tradition, EU-MODA contributes to it by using the international framework of child rights to inform the construction of indicators and dimensions essential to children’s material well-being, taking into account the needs of children at various stages of their life cycle. The study adds to the literature on monetary child poverty and material deprivation in the EU by analysing several age-specific and rights-based dimensions of child deprivation individually and simultaneously, constructing multidimensional deprivation indices, and studying the overlaps between monetary poverty and multidimensional deprivation. The paper demonstrates the application of the EU-MODA methodology to three diverse countries: Finland, Romania and the United Kingdom. The analysis uses data from the ad hoc material deprivation module of the EU-SILC 2009 because it provides comparable micro-data for EU member states and contains child-specific deprivation indicators.

Keywords: Child poverty; Child well-being; Multidimensional poverty; Poverty and deprivation overlap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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