Labour Income, Social Transfers and Child Poverty

Labour income , social transfers and child poverty

This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the disposable income of disadvantaged children is comprised equally of variation in market and transfer inc...

Cash Transfers and Child Labour

Cash Transfers and Child Labour Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children’s welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the impact of cash transfers, conditional and unconditional, on child labour...

Parent Altruism, Cash Transfers and Child Poverty

This paper investigates the contemporary sharing of household resources between parents and co-resident children, motivated by the increasing popularity of cash transfers targeted at children, and limited evidence of their efficacy. It argues that this provides information on parental altruism which, though commonly assumed, has been challenged in recent research. The main finding is that the w...

Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana

Family related transfers and child poverty across Europe

Welfare regimes across Europe differ considerably with respect to the support of and the policy instruments used to foster families with dependent children. In striving for a harmonization of social policy across EU-countries more insight in such cross-national differences is needed; this is especially true in light of the recent Eastern European extension of the EU. This paper adds to this res...