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Indicators and Indices of Child Well-being: A Brief American History

Lippman, Laura - In: Social Indicators Research 83 (2007) 1, pp. 39-53

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Raghavan, Ramesh; Alexandrova, Anna - In: Social Indicators Research 121 (2015) 3, pp. 887-902

Assuring the well-being of children has emerged over the past several decades as an important goal for health and social policymakers. Although the concept of child well-being has been operationalized and measured in different ways by different child-serving entities, there are few unifying...

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Beyond Absenteeism: Father Incarceration and Child Development

Geller, Amanda; Cooper, Carey; Garfinkel, Irwin; … - In: Demography 49 (2012) 1, pp. 49-76

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A Sociodemographic Risk Index

Moore, Kristin; Vandivere, Sharon; Redd, Zakia - In: Social Indicators Research 75 (2006) 1, pp. 45-81

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Exploring the Late Impact of the Financial Crisis using Gallup World Poll Data

Natali, Luisa; Holmqvist, Goran - 2014

indicators were still deteriorating as late as 2013. A “League Table” is also presented where countries are ranked in terms of … change between 2007 and 2013 for four selected Gallup World Poll indicators related material well-being, perceptions of how …

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Exploring the late impact of the Great Recession using Gallup World Poll Data

Holmqvist, Goran; Natali, Luisa - 2014

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The United States' record-low child poverty rate in international and historical perspective

Parolin, Zachary; Filauro, Stefano - 2023

In 2021, the federal government of the United States (US) expanded a set of income transfers that led to strong reductions in child poverty. This research note uses micro-data from more than 50 countries, and US data spanning more than 50 years, to place the 2021 child poverty rate in historical...

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Does marriage matter for children? Assessing the causal impact of legal marriage

Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2007

This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow's Pension System that raised the attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to...

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Measurement and analysis of child well-being in middle and high income countries

Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J.; Tausch, Arno - 2007

first of our indicators being a non-parametric measure while the remaining two are parametric. In the non-parametric index … of child welfare, the well-being indicators are given same weights in their aggregation to form different components from … component analysis. The first model uses a pool of all indicators without classification of the indicators by type of well …

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Welfare reforms and cild well-being in the US and UK

Waldfogel, Jane - 2008

This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper finds some commonalities but also some notable...

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