Measuring child poverty in times of shocks and crises

Oliver Fiala and Aristide Kielem

Chapter 18 in Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality, 2025, pp 289-303 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The chapter highlights the challenges in assessing the impacts of shocks and crises on child poverty due to the limitations of traditional data sources, proposing the use of alternative data, nowcasting exercises, and simulations when estimating impact in an emergent crisis. The chapter suggests a three-step framework for analysing impacts: conceptualisation, data identification, and simulation. Examples from the global financial crisis in 2008/2009 and the COVID-19 pandemic illustrate how such exercises can help to track the impact of shocks on child poverty.

Keywords: Child poverty; Crisis; Data challenges; Nowcasting; Simulations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802200423
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