Measuring the size and impact of public cash support for children in cross-national perspective

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

June 1, 2011

Abstract:

The authors suggest a new comprehensive measure of support given through tax benefit systems to families with children. Using microsimulation techniques, this accounts for all provisions contingent on the presence of children, while usually only gross child/family benefits are considered. The authors use EUROMOD, the European Union tax-benefit microsimulation model, to quantify the support for children and analyze its impact on household incomes and child poverty for 19 countries. The authors find that the conventional approach underestimates on average the total amount of support for children by about one fifth. Furthermore, the differences between two measures vary considerably across countries and are, therefore, critical for cross-national comparisons.

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Social Science Computer Review

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 29 , p.85 -102

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894439310370104

ISSN

8944393

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