Ainslie Cruickshank
Biographic Data
| ID | 2498058 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ainslie Cruickshank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ainslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Cruickshank |
| SIGNATURE | CRUICKSHANK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6126-5211 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Poverty Reduction Politics and Food Insecurity
Canada's higher-level governments have, at least rhetorically, prioritized poverty reduction since the early 2000s. This article investigates whether this political prioritization has reduced food insecurity among high-risk households, namely couples with children, single persons, single parents, and households relying largely on government transfers. Using the Canadian Community Health Survey (2005–2018), we study the association between househo…
Reducing poverty and social exclusion in Europe
Advances in measuring poverty in non-monetary terms enable governments to track social progress on ends, the things that societies value doing and being. Using a national-level regression-based empirical strategy, this research demonstrates the magnitude of previously unmeasured policy effects on material deprivation, a non-monetary indicator of poverty. We apply this methodology to a comparative microdata set covering 32 European countries and e…
Two Decades of Poverty Reduction Politics in Canada
Réduire la pauvreté est une tâche complexe. Nous cherchons à savoir si la situation des familles monoparentales et des adultes célibataires en âge de travailler s’est améliorée, dans un contexte politique qui priorise, du moins sur le plan rhétorique, la réduction de la pauvreté à l’échelle de toutes les grandes divisions administratives canadiennes. Ces deux groupes présentent des taux de pauvreté très élevés. Nous analysons les changements dans…
An Empirical Validation Method for Narrowing the Range of Poverty Thresholds
Material Deprivation
Unique data from a 2013 Canadian survey were used to measure material deprivation. This outcome-based indicator of poverty was constructed of 17 necessities. When persons who cannot afford two or more items are considered materially deprived, material deprivation is found to affect 18.6 percent of Canadians. Of those, only 43 percent also have low income. Of Canadians with low income, only 50 percent are materially deprived. The experience of pov…
Co-management of Traditional Foods
Traditional foods that First Nations peoples harvest or gather from the land remain critically important for achieving and sustaining food security for many communities. In Canada’s North, land claim agreements include provisions for First Nations to participate in the governance of their traditional territories, including the co-management of important traditional (wild-harvested) food species. Because such agreements only specify the broad cont…
Poverty and Serious Mental Illness
This paper examines the issue of poverty among people with serious mental illness ( SMI ), positioning it as a key issue to be confronted by community mental health systems and practitioners. The paper reviews three perspectives on poverty, considering how each sheds light on poverty among people with SMI , and their implications for action: (a) monetary resources, (b) basic needs, and (c) capabilities. The paper argues that community mental heal…
Child Poverty in Ontario
North America lags behind in the use of outcome-based indicators such as material deprivation to study child poverty. Instead, income indicators dominate research and policy making. A large body of international research concludes that income poverty and material deprivation are complementary indicators because each measures specific but related aspects of material well-being. For children this distinction is even more pertinent because children …
How Poverty Indicators Confound Poverty Reduction Evaluations
The Breadth of Child Poverty in Europe
Children can be considered to have a “differential experience” of poverty in childhood, setting their situation apart from adults as well as from other children depending on their life stage. The European Union (EU) is among those bodies that have recognized the need for child-focused indicators in monitoring poverty and social exclusion and is currently in the process of developing, testing, and comparing single indicators of child well-being ac…
Are cash transfers a realistic policy tool for poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Congo-Brazzaville and Côte d’Ivoire
This article uses evidence from two contrasting African countries, a middle-income oil producer (the Republic of Congo) and a low-income country (Côte d’Ivoire), on the potential role of cash transfers as instruments for poverty reduction and human development. Quantitative simulations of the targeting efficiency, impacts, cost, cost-effectiveness and affordability of different cash transfer options are combined with analysis of political and adm…
A New Tool for Monitoring (Child) Poverty
Size matters
This article evaluates a policy change from universal to means-tested child allowances in terms of targeting efficiency and poverty reduction, taking the introduction of the latter form of benefits in Russia as a case-study. We use the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) from 2000 to 2004 to analyse the impact of the reforms and to simulate the effects of various means-tested and universal child benefit schemes. Since the reforms in 2000…
How Poverty Indicators Confound Poverty Reduction Evaluations
Size matters
This article evaluates a policy change from universal to means-tested child allowances in terms of targeting efficiency and poverty reduction, taking the introduction of the latter form of benefits in Russia as a case-study. We use the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) from 2000 to 2004 to analyse the impact of the reforms and to simulate the effects of various means-tested and universal child benefit schemes. Since the reforms in 2000…
Poverty and Serious Mental Illness
This paper examines the issue of poverty among people with serious mental illness ( SMI ), positioning it as a key issue to be confronted by community mental health systems and practitioners. The paper reviews three perspectives on poverty, considering how each sheds light on poverty among people with SMI , and their implications for action: (a) monetary resources, (b) basic needs, and (c) capabilities. The paper argues that community mental heal…
Material Deprivation
Unique data from a 2013 Canadian survey were used to measure material deprivation. This outcome-based indicator of poverty was constructed of 17 necessities. When persons who cannot afford two or more items are considered materially deprived, material deprivation is found to affect 18.6 percent of Canadians. Of those, only 43 percent also have low income. Of Canadians with low income, only 50 percent are materially deprived. The experience of pov…
The Breadth of Child Poverty in Europe
Children can be considered to have a “differential experience” of poverty in childhood, setting their situation apart from adults as well as from other children depending on their life stage. The European Union (EU) is among those bodies that have recognized the need for child-focused indicators in monitoring poverty and social exclusion and is currently in the process of developing, testing, and comparing single indicators of child well-being ac…
A New Tool for Monitoring (Child) Poverty
Reducing poverty and social exclusion in Europe
Advances in measuring poverty in non-monetary terms enable governments to track social progress on ends, the things that societies value doing and being. Using a national-level regression-based empirical strategy, this research demonstrates the magnitude of previously unmeasured policy effects on material deprivation, a non-monetary indicator of poverty. We apply this methodology to a comparative microdata set covering 32 European countries and e…
Are cash transfers a realistic policy tool for poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Congo-Brazzaville and Côte d’Ivoire
This article uses evidence from two contrasting African countries, a middle-income oil producer (the Republic of Congo) and a low-income country (Côte d’Ivoire), on the potential role of cash transfers as instruments for poverty reduction and human development. Quantitative simulations of the targeting efficiency, impacts, cost, cost-effectiveness and affordability of different cash transfer options are combined with analysis of political and adm…
An Empirical Validation Method for Narrowing the Range of Poverty Thresholds
Size matters
This article evaluates a policy change from universal to means-tested child allowances in terms of targeting efficiency and poverty reduction, taking the introduction of the latter form of benefits in Russia as a case-study. We use the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) from 2000 to 2004 to analyse the impact of the reforms and to simulate the effects of various means-tested and universal child benefit schemes. Since the reforms in 2000…
A New Tool for Monitoring (Child) Poverty
The Breadth of Child Poverty in Europe
Children can be considered to have a “differential experience” of poverty in childhood, setting their situation apart from adults as well as from other children depending on their life stage. The European Union (EU) is among those bodies that have recognized the need for child-focused indicators in monitoring poverty and social exclusion and is currently in the process of developing, testing, and comparing single indicators of child well-being ac…
Are cash transfers a realistic policy tool for poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Congo-Brazzaville and Côte d’Ivoire
This article uses evidence from two contrasting African countries, a middle-income oil producer (the Republic of Congo) and a low-income country (Côte d’Ivoire), on the potential role of cash transfers as instruments for poverty reduction and human development. Quantitative simulations of the targeting efficiency, impacts, cost, cost-effectiveness and affordability of different cash transfer options are combined with analysis of political and adm…
Child Poverty in Ontario
North America lags behind in the use of outcome-based indicators such as material deprivation to study child poverty. Instead, income indicators dominate research and policy making. A large body of international research concludes that income poverty and material deprivation are complementary indicators because each measures specific but related aspects of material well-being. For children this distinction is even more pertinent because children …
How Poverty Indicators Confound Poverty Reduction Evaluations
Poverty and Serious Mental Illness
This paper examines the issue of poverty among people with serious mental illness ( SMI ), positioning it as a key issue to be confronted by community mental health systems and practitioners. The paper reviews three perspectives on poverty, considering how each sheds light on poverty among people with SMI , and their implications for action: (a) monetary resources, (b) basic needs, and (c) capabilities. The paper argues that community mental heal…
Co-management of Traditional Foods
Traditional foods that First Nations peoples harvest or gather from the land remain critically important for achieving and sustaining food security for many communities. In Canada’s North, land claim agreements include provisions for First Nations to participate in the governance of their traditional territories, including the co-management of important traditional (wild-harvested) food species. Because such agreements only specify the broad cont…
Material Deprivation
Unique data from a 2013 Canadian survey were used to measure material deprivation. This outcome-based indicator of poverty was constructed of 17 necessities. When persons who cannot afford two or more items are considered materially deprived, material deprivation is found to affect 18.6 percent of Canadians. Of those, only 43 percent also have low income. Of Canadians with low income, only 50 percent are materially deprived. The experience of pov…
An Empirical Validation Method for Narrowing the Range of Poverty Thresholds
Reducing poverty and social exclusion in Europe
Advances in measuring poverty in non-monetary terms enable governments to track social progress on ends, the things that societies value doing and being. Using a national-level regression-based empirical strategy, this research demonstrates the magnitude of previously unmeasured policy effects on material deprivation, a non-monetary indicator of poverty. We apply this methodology to a comparative microdata set covering 32 European countries and e…
Two Decades of Poverty Reduction Politics in Canada
Réduire la pauvreté est une tâche complexe. Nous cherchons à savoir si la situation des familles monoparentales et des adultes célibataires en âge de travailler s’est améliorée, dans un contexte politique qui priorise, du moins sur le plan rhétorique, la réduction de la pauvreté à l’échelle de toutes les grandes divisions administratives canadiennes. Ces deux groupes présentent des taux de pauvreté très élevés. Nous analysons les changements dans…
Poverty Reduction Politics and Food Insecurity
Canada's higher-level governments have, at least rhetorically, prioritized poverty reduction since the early 2000s. This article investigates whether this political prioritization has reduced food insecurity among high-risk households, namely couples with children, single persons, single parents, and households relying largely on government transfers. Using the Canadian Community Health Survey (2005–2018), we study the association between househo…
Economics (11 works) · Poverty (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (8 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Public economics (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Poverty reduction (4 works)