How “shock-proof” are child well-being indices in high-income countries? Implications for research and policy post-crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13049941 |
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| Authors | Dominic Richardson, Jeong-Hee Ryu |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 341-359 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2169-9763 • E-ISSN: 2169-978X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/ics.2025.11 |
| OpenAlex | W4408587711 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The COVID-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis have raised concerns about the relevance and reliability of current measures and indices of child well-being. This article aims to bridge a significant knowledge gap by examining how these indices respond to shocks and exploring attributes of shock-responsive indicators related to child well-being. Drawing on the UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 16 on child well-being and the Korean Child Well-being Index, the study conducts a comparative analysis of differences in the design and purpose of indices that influence their resilience to shocks. Subsequently, it proposes an approach for evaluating the ‘shock-responsiveness’ of key outcome indicators of child well-being before going on to review how child income poverty measures performed during COVID-19 and the cost-of-living crisis. After finding that child well-being indices, at present, are not able to fully capture the effects of covariate crises on children, the article concludes with insights for policymakers and researchers
Demographic economics · Economics · Political science · Shock (circulatory · Well-being · Employment and Welfare Studies · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Medicine · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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