Child Benefits and Child Poverty

Irina A. Denisova (), Stanislav Kolenikov () and Ksenia Yudaeva ()
Additional contact information
Ksenia Yudaeva: CSR, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, NES

No w0006, Working Papers from Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR)

Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to analyze the e¤ects of changes in policy of child benefit provision on child poverty. In particular, we examine whether the introduction of means-testing schemes in the regions has improved targeting of child benefits. We test whether the probability of being paid depends negatively or positively on income, and whether this probability increased between 1996 and 1998 for the poor part of the population. In addition to probability analysis, we use direct poverty analysis, i.e., we decompose the change in poverty into changes in child benefits, and other factors. We carry out a comparative analysis among three groups of regions which differ with respect to the approach chosen to identify the needy families with children. We pay special attention to the relative efficiency of a variety of means-testing schemes.

Date: 2000-10
View list of references View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cefir.ru/papers/WP6FDI.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cfr:cefirw:w0006

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR)
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Julia Babich (). This e-mail address is bad, please contact .