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Child Poverty in Upper-Income Countries: Lessons from the Luxembourg Income Study

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Part of the book series: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research ((CHIR,volume 1))

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Few social and economic problems are more compelling than child poverty. While poverty is evident throughout the life cycle—affecting children, prime-age adults and the elderly—poverty among children has particular resonance. Child poverty captures our attention for several reasons: it is widely held that children need and deserve protection from hardship; most children have no control over their economic circumstances; deprivation during childhood can have lifelong consequences; and some of the effects of child poverty have spillover effects. Child poverty in rich countries is especially compelling, because it is rooted not so much in scarce aggregate resources but mainly in distributional arrangements, both private and public.

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  1. Luxembourg Income Study;,Political Science and Sociology, The Graduate center, City University of New York, New York, USA

    Janet C. Gornick

  2. Luxembourg Income Study, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Markus Jäntti

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  1. School of Social Work, Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, 10027, New York, NY, USA

    Sheila B. Kamerman

  2. Dept. Economics, Dalhousie University, B3H 3J5, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Shelley Phipps

  3. Hebrew University of Jerusalem Paul Baerwald School of Social Work & Social Welfare Giv’at Ram, 91905, Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Israel

    Asher Ben-Arieh

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Gornick, J.C., Jäntti, M. (2010). Child Poverty in Upper-Income Countries: Lessons from the Luxembourg Income Study. In: Kamerman, S.B., Phipps, S., Ben-Arieh, A. (eds) From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being. Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3377-2_19

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