Child Poverty in Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia: The Role of Poverty Persistence and Social Transfers

Aleksandra Anić and Jelena Žarković

Eastern European Economics, 2023, vol. 61, issue 6, 680-699

Abstract: We use a dynamic correlated random effects probit model with endogenous initial conditions for three poverty measures to assess child poverty persistence after controlling for structural household characteristics and economic variables. The empirical analysis is based on the 2015–2018 longitudinal sample of the Survey of Income and Living Conditions for Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia. Results show strong poverty persistence regardless of poverty measure, with much stronger effects observed for Croatia and Serbia than for Slovenia. Social transfers have more than twice the capacity to lift children out of poverty in Slovenia compared to the other two countries.

Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00128775.2023.2218849 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

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: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mes:eaeuec:v:61:y:2023:i:6:p:680-699

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/MEEE20

DOI: 10.1080/00128775.2023.2218849

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Eastern European Economics from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().