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Poverty and child health in the UK: using evidence for action Open
There are currently high levels of child poverty in the UK, and for the first time in almost two decades child poverty has started to rise in absolute terms. Child poverty is associated with a wide range of health-damaging impacts, negativ…
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Targeting Parenting in Early Childhood: A Public Health Approach to Improve Outcomes for Children Living in Poverty Open
In this article, the authors posit that programs promoting nurturing parent–child relationships influence outcomes of parents and young children living in poverty through two primary mechanisms: (a) strengthening parents' social support an…
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Persistent Poverty and Children's Cognitive Development: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study Open
Summary We use data from the four sweeps of the UK Millennium Cohort Study of children born at the turn of the 21st century to document the effect that poverty, and in particular persistent poverty, has on their cognitive development in th…
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A Universal Child Allowance: A Plan to Reduce Poverty and Income Instability among Children in the United States Open
To reduce child poverty and income instability, and eliminate extreme poverty among families with children in the United States, we propose converting the Child Tax Credit and child tax exemption into a universal, monthly child allowance. …
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Addressing inequities in child health and development: towards social justice Open
Inequities have a profound impact on the health and development of children globally. While inequities are greatest in the world’s poorest countries, even in rich nations poorer children have poorer health and developmental outcomes. From …
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Income inequality and the developing child: Is it all relative? Open
Children from low-income families are at heightened risk for a number of poor outcomes, including depression, antisocial behavior, poor physical health, and educational failure. Growing up in poverty is generally seen as toxic for children…
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Poverty dynamics and health in late childhood in the UK: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study Open
Objective To assess the prevalence of different trajectories of exposure to child poverty and their association with three indicators of adolescent physical and mental health in UK children. Methods We analysed data on 10 652 children from…
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Preterm Birth, Poverty, and Cognitive Development Open
BACKGROUND: Preterm birth and childhood poverty each adversely impact children’s cognitive development and academic outcomes. In this study, we investigated whether the relationships between preterm and early term birth and children’s cogn…
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Poverty's Impact on Children's Executive Functions: Global Considerations Open
Poverty detrimentally affects child executive function (EF), a subset of cognitive abilities implicated in reading and other achievement outcomes. Consequently, research has focused on understanding explanatory and mediating mechanisms in …
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Material Well-being, Social Relationships and Children’s Overall Life Satisfaction in Hong Kong Open
There has been growing research interest into child poverty and child well-being in Asia. However the development of qualitative and quantitative data in the field predominately adopts ‘expert-led’ or adult-derived measures of child povert…
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Child poverty in the UK: Measures, prevalence and intra-household sharing Open
There is cross-party agreement on the urgency of addressing child poverty in the UK, but less consensus on how to define and measure it, and understand its causes and effects. The Conservative/Liberal Coalition government’s policy and rhet…
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Combating Poverty in Europe: The German Welfare Regime in Practice Open
Combating poverty in Europe and Germany, Gerhard Backer, Walter Hanesch, Peter Krause. Combating Poverty in Europe - The European Welfare Regimes and the European Union: Welfare capitalism - the ten year impact of governments on poverty, i…
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Trends in social determinants of child health and perinatal outcomes in European countries 2005–2015 by level of austerity imposed by governments: a repeat cross-sectional analysis of routinely available data Open
Objective To assess whether the level of austerity implemented by national governments was associated with adverse trends in perinatal outcomes and the social determinants of children’s health (SDCH) in rich countries Design Longitudinal e…
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Monetary and Multidimensional Child Poverty: A Contradiction in Terms? Open
Although the multidimensional nature of poverty is widely recognized, the extent to which monetary measures can serve as a proxy for non‐monetary measures remains unresolved. This is of particular concern for children given their dependenc…
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Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children Open
Economic research on the safety net has evolved over time, moving away from a focus on the negative incentive effects of means-tested assistance on employment, earnings, marriage, and fertility to include the potential positive benefits of…
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What Is the Association between Absolute Child Poverty, Poor Governance, and Natural Disasters? A Global Comparison of Some of the Realities of Climate Change Open
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The experience of cash transfers in alleviating childhood poverty in South Africa: Mothers' experiences of the Child Support Grant Open
Cash transfer (CT) programmes are increasingly being used as policy instruments to address child poverty and child health outcomes in developing countries. As the largest cash-transfer programme in Africa, the South African Child Support G…
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Child Maintenance and Social Security Interactions: the Poverty Reduction Effects in Model Lone Parent Families across Four Countries Open
In most developed countries, children in lone parent families face a high risk of poverty. A partial solution commonly sought in English-speaking nations is to increase the amounts of private child maintenance paid by the other parent. How…
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Cumulative Socio-economic Disadvantage and Secondary Education in Finland Open
We analyse how the disadvantages that are associated with parental background, as measured using multiple indicators, are related to the probability of a child completing secondary school by the age of 22. We measure family background by t…
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Practising proportionate universalism – a study protocol of an extended postnatal home visiting programme in a disadvantaged area in Stockholm, Sweden Open
The study was retrospectively registered (11 August 2016) in the ISRCTN registry ( ISRCTN11832097 DOI: 10.1186/ISRCTN11832097 ).
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A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty Open
This book examines child poverty as a topic of social justice. The authors develop a theory of social justice for children based within the capability approach, apply it to the injustice of child poverty and propose a theory of the respons…
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Child Poverty Amongst Young Carers in the UK: Prevalence and Trends in the Wake of the Financial Crisis, Economic Downturn and Onset of Austerity Open
The article provides the first estimates of prevalence and trends in child poverty amongst young carers aged 5–19 in the UK using specialized income data from the Family Resources Survey / the Households Below Average Income Survey. Lookin…
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Improving poverty reduction in Europe: What works best where? Open
This article examines how income poverty is affected by changes to the scale of tax-benefit policies and which are the most cost-effective policies in reducing poverty or limiting its increase in seven diverse EU countries. We do that by m…
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Sustainable Development Goal 1.2 Open
Presentation on the targets and performance indicators of Sustainable Development Goal 11
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Family policies’ long-term effects on poverty: a comparative analysis of single and partnered mothers Open
This study investigates whether generous family policies at the transition to parenthood reduce single and partnered mothers’ economic disadvantages later in the life course. Previous research usually focused on the immediate effects of fa…
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State Spending on Public Benefit Programs and Child Maltreatment Open
BACKGROUND To determine the association between states’ total spending on benefit programs and child maltreatment outcomes. METHODS This was an ecological study of all US states during federal fiscal years 2010–2017. The primary predictor …
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Poverty among Foster Children: Estimates Using the Supplemental Poverty Measure Open
We use data from the Current Population Survey and the new Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) to provide estimates for poverty among foster children over the period 1992 to 2013. These are the first large-scale national estimates for foste…
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The Role of Cash Benefit and In-Kind Benefit Spending for Child Poverty in Times of Austerity: An Analysis of 22 European Countries 2006–2015 Open
This article investigates the development of two forms of public spending on families, as well as their role for child poverty in 22 European countries during the period 2006–2015. It uses aggregated data on child poverty from Eurostat and…
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A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty Open
This book is open access under a CCBY license. This book investigates child poverty from a philosophical perspective. It identifies the injustices of child poverty, relates them to the well-being of children, and discusses who has a moral …
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Child Poverty in the United States: A Tale of Devastation and the Promise of Hope Open
The child poverty rate in the United States is higher than in most similarly developed countries, making child poverty one of America's most pressing social problems. This article provides an introduction of child poverty in the USA, begin…