The international child poverty gap
Does Demography matter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10967657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Heuveline (0000-0001-9503-901X, Patrick Heuveline, California Center for Population Research, University of California, PO Box 951484, 4284 Public Policy Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095, corresponding author), Matthew Weinshenker (0000-0002-6437-6109, Fordham University) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 173-191 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Demography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/dem.2008.0007 |
| PMID | 18390298 |
| OpenAlex | W2020671715 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 19 |
According to the Luxembourg Income Study data, the U.S. child poverty rate is the second highest among 15 high-income nations. The present work reveals that 55% of all American children living in a household headed by a single female with no other adult present live in poverty—the highest rate for any of the five living arrangements in the 15 countries examined in this study. While previous analyses have focused on market forces and governmental redistribution across households, we question the contribution of demographic factors that place children in family structures with different poverty risks relative to other factors such as differential market opportunities and governmental benefits for adults caring for children in various living arrangements. Applying a classic demographic decomposition technique to the overall poverty gap, we find that the distributional effect of demographic behavior contributes little to the U.S. poverty gap with other nations (and none with respect to the United Kingdom). Overall differences in labor markets and welfare schemes best explain the U.S. child poverty gap, although for some countries, the gap is accentuated by the gradient of governmental transfers, and for most countries, by the gradient of market earnings across living arrangements
Demographic economics · Development economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Poverty · Redistribution (election · Welfare · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
Family policies and single parent poverty in 18 OECD countries, 1978-2008
The impact of pensions, transfers and taxes on child poverty in Europe
How Do Households Fare Economically When Mothers Become Their Primary Financial Support
Social Spending, Poverty, and Immigration
Poverty and the American Family
How large families fare in Germany
Alternative measures of Family Farm Viability – Incorporating gap measures
Ethno-Linguistic Affiliation and Income Poverty in Native Households with Children
Prioritize families, not marriage
Family policies, employment and poverty among partnered and single mothers
Child poverty in cross-national perspective
Asset poverty among children
The racial divide among American children in poverty
Family, Work, Economy, or Social Policy
One-Parent Families in Contemporary Cambodia
Public income transfers and wealth accumulation at the bottom
Income Sources Across Childhood in Families With Nonresident Fathers
Targeting, Universalism, and Single-Mother Poverty
Cross-National Variation in the Relationship between Welfare Generosity and Single Mother Employment
Single-Parent Families and Public Policy in High-Income Countries
Children's Experiences of Family Disruption in Sweden
Rethinking the Risks of Poverty
Theories of the Causes of Poverty
The meaning of poverty' and contemporary quantitative poverty research1
Comparing Child Poverty Risk by Family Structure During the 2008 Recession
Placing Families in Context
It Takes a Village (Perhaps a Nation)
"Families" in International Context
Drawing the line
Components of a Difference Between Two Rates
Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies
The rise of cohabitation and childbearing outside marriage in western Europe
Good things come in threes
Children and the elderly
Beyond single mothers
A decomposition of trends in the nonmarital fertility ratios of blacks and whites in the united states, 1960–1992
Inequality Re-examined
Routes to Children's Economic Recovery after Divorce
Diverging destinies
Varieties of welfare capitalism
The Ties that Bind
Shifting Childrearing to Single Mothers
Parental Cohabitation and Children's Economic Well-Being
Rethinking the Sociological Measurement of Poverty
The role of cohabitation in family formation
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,65 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |