Interactions between policy effects, population characteristics and the tax-benefit system: an illustration using child poverty and child related policies in Romania and the Czech Republic

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

September 15, 2016

Summary:

We investigate the impact of the Romanian and Czech family policy systems on the poverty risk of families with children. We focus on separating out the effects of policy design itself and size of benefits from the interaction between policies and population characteristics. We find that interactions between population characteristics, the wider tax benefit system and child related policies are pervasive and large. Both population characteristics and the wider tax-benefit environment can dramatically alter the antipoverty effect of a given set of policies.

Published in

Social Indicators Research

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 128 , p.1 -1

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-1083-6

ISSN

3038300

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Link

- http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16728/

Notes

Open Access article

© The Author(s) 2016

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://​creativecommons.​org/​licenses/​by/​4.​0/​), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.


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