[…] issue we describe the pattern of health-related non-response revealed by the BHPS and ECHP data. We both test and correct for non-response in empirical models of the impact of socioeconomic status on self-assessed health. Descriptive evidence shows that there is health-related non-response in the data, with those in very poor initial health more likely […]

[…] the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty rates, holding other demographic and labour market factors constant. As such the paper offers a cross-country overview of child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe.

[…] comprehensive childcare provision and generous family support systems, the opposite is true. Leaving home is always related to a higher risk of poverty and deprivation, but the impact is far stronger in Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands (where young people leave home early, and to live alone) than in Southern countries (where they tend […]