Child Poverty across Industrialized Nations

Bruce Bradbury and Markus Jantti

Innocenti Occasional Papers, Economic Policy Series

Abstract: While child poverty is everywhere seen as an important social problem, there is considerable variation in both anti-poverty policies and poverty outcomes across the industrialized nations. In this paper we present new estimates of patterns of child income poverty in 25 nations using data from the Luxembourg Income Study. These estimates are presented using a range of alternative income poverty definitions and describe the correlations of outcomes with different demographic patterns and labour market and social transfer incomes. Evidence on cross-national patterns of non-cash income receipt suggests that more comprehensive measures, which include non-cash benefits, would be unlikely to change the overall pattern of poverty. We then examine the impact of household savings patterns (particularly via house purchase) on child consumption and conclude that this also does not change the picture provided by income measures alone. The paper concludes with an analysis of the sources of the variation in child poverty across nations.

Keywords: anti-poverty strategies; child poverty; comparative analysis; industrialized countries; poverty reduction; Developed Countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 92
Date: 1999
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