children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a … states we estimate the impact on poverty and on the government budget using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD. The … findings suggest that to achieve significant poverty reductions among young children, both additional childcare slots and …

poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which …. Countries with low post-childbirth poverty include those with an explicit pro-natalist orientation and socio-democratic regimes …. High post-childbirth poverty rates are found in pro-traditional and South European conservative countries, and especially …

Children of single mothers face higher rates of poverty than children in two-parent households in practically every … poverty and, as a result, little consensus on the best way to address poverty among these children. Explanations include both … market activity affect child poverty generally in the expected way. Taking advantage of the longitudinal data at the country …

poverty with a multi-level analysis across 18 affluent democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all … countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single mother poverty than for poverty among the overall population …. By far, the U.S. has the highest rate of poverty among single mothers. The analyses show that single mother poverty is a …