Journal Article
Measuring the size and impact of public cash support for children in cross-national perspective
Authors
Publication date
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.
Published in
Social Science Computer Review
Volume and page numbers
29 , 85 -102
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894439310370104
ISSN
16
Subjects
Welfare Benefits and Microsimulation
Links
http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/record=b1656799~S5
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