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Salvador Pérez-moreno - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Transfers and Child Poverty in European Countries: Pro-poor Targeting or Pro-child Targeting?
Journal of Social Policy, 2018Co-Authors: Elena Bárcena-martín, M. Carmen Blanco-arana, Salvador Pérez-morenoAbstract:Children are generally at a higher risk of poverty than the population as a whole, although the mechanisms that lead to their socio-economic vulnerability vary widely across European countries. This paper aims to further our understanding of to what extent cross-country variations in child poverty risk are associated with different ways of Social Transfer targeting: pro-poor versus pro-child targeting. In particular, we address the potential impact on child poverty of countries’ intent to target Transfers at lower incomes and children across 30 European countries. Using a multilevel framework, we find that not only the size of the Transfer system, but also the form of targeting matters in reducing child poverty. Specifically, the countries’ intent to target children matters even more than their intent to target lower incomes, in terms of reducing child poverty. Moreover, the prevalence of multi-generational households in a country seems to be associated with an attempt to protect against child poverty in countries with lower levels of pro-child targeting.
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Assessing the impact of Social Transfer income packages on child poverty in European countries: Pro-child targeting vs pro-poor targeting
2016Co-Authors: Elena Bárcena-martín, M. Carmen Blanco-arana, Salvador Pérez-morenoAbstract:Children are generally at a higher risk of poverty than the population as a whole, although the mechanisms that lead to their socioeconomic vulnerability vary widely across European countries. This paper assesses to what extent Social Transfers explain the variation in levels of child poverty across 30 European countries. Using a multilevel framework, we jointly examine individual characteristics and country-level factors, focusing on specific aspects of Social Transfer systems, namely generosity and targeting. We consider two types of targeting: pro-child (categorical selectivity) and pro-poor (income selectivity).We observe that the variation in child poverty is mainly due to contextual factors and to a lesser degree to individual factors. We conclude that, as stated in the literature, the generosity of Social Transfers matters in reducing child poverty. Nevertheless, our findings go further and demonstrate that targeting children is more effective in reducing the risk of poverty for children than targeting the lower end of income distribution, which should be borne in mind when determining and prioritizing policy orientations and measures for fighting child poverty.
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Assessing the impact of Social Transfer income packages on child poverty. A European cross-national perspective
2015Co-Authors: Elena Bárcena-martín, Maria Del Carmern, Salvador Pérez-morenoAbstract:Children are generally at a higher risk of poverty than the population as a whole, although the mechanisms that lead to their socioeconomic vulnerability vary widely across European countries. This paper assesses to what extent some general characteristics of Social Transfer systems explain the variation in levels of child poverty across 30 European countries. In contrast to previous studies that mainly focus on the redistributive impact of Social Transfers, we examine several indicators of the generosity, efficiency and incidence of Social Transfers. Using a multilevel framework, we find lower child poverty rates in countries with more generous and more efficient Social Transfer that focus to a larger degree on children, even after controlling for country living standard and labour market performance. We confirm previous results that find that the variation in child poverty is mainly due to contextual factors and to a lesser degree to individual factors.
Elena Bárcena-martín - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Transfers and Child Poverty in European Countries: Pro-poor Targeting or Pro-child Targeting?
Journal of Social Policy, 2018Co-Authors: Elena Bárcena-martín, M. Carmen Blanco-arana, Salvador Pérez-morenoAbstract:Children are generally at a higher risk of poverty than the population as a whole, although the mechanisms that lead to their socio-economic vulnerability vary widely across European countries. This paper aims to further our understanding of to what extent cross-country variations in child poverty risk are associated with different ways of Social Transfer targeting: pro-poor versus pro-child targeting. In particular, we address the potential impact on child poverty of countries’ intent to target Transfers at lower incomes and children across 30 European countries. Using a multilevel framework, we find that not only the size of the Transfer system, but also the form of targeting matters in reducing child poverty. Specifically, the countries’ intent to target children matters even more than their intent to target lower incomes, in terms of reducing child poverty. Moreover, the prevalence of multi-generational households in a country seems to be associated with an attempt to protect against child poverty in countries with lower levels of pro-child targeting.
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Assessing the impact of Social Transfer income packages on child poverty in European countries: Pro-child targeting vs pro-poor targeting
2016Co-Authors: Elena Bárcena-martín, M. Carmen Blanco-arana, Salvador Pérez-morenoAbstract:Children are generally at a higher risk of poverty than the population as a whole, although the mechanisms that lead to their socioeconomic vulnerability vary widely across European countries. This paper assesses to what extent Social Transfers explain the variation in levels of child poverty across 30 European countries. Using a multilevel framework, we jointly examine individual characteristics and country-level factors, focusing on specific aspects of Social Transfer systems, namely generosity and targeting. We consider two types of targeting: pro-child (categorical selectivity) and pro-poor (income selectivity).We observe that the variation in child poverty is mainly due to contextual factors and to a lesser degree to individual factors. We conclude that, as stated in the literature, the generosity of Social Transfers matters in reducing child poverty. Nevertheless, our findings go further and demonstrate that targeting children is more effective in reducing the risk of poverty for children than targeting the lower end of income distribution, which should be borne in mind when determining and prioritizing policy orientations and measures for fighting child poverty.
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Assessing the impact of Social Transfer income packages on child poverty. A European cross-national perspective
2015Co-Authors: Elena Bárcena-martín, Maria Del Carmern, Salvador Pérez-morenoAbstract:Children are generally at a higher risk of poverty than the population as a whole, although the mechanisms that lead to their socioeconomic vulnerability vary widely across European countries. This paper assesses to what extent some general characteristics of Social Transfer systems explain the variation in levels of child poverty across 30 European countries. In contrast to previous studies that mainly focus on the redistributive impact of Social Transfers, we examine several indicators of the generosity, efficiency and incidence of Social Transfers. Using a multilevel framework, we find lower child poverty rates in countries with more generous and more efficient Social Transfer that focus to a larger degree on children, even after controlling for country living standard and labour market performance. We confirm previous results that find that the variation in child poverty is mainly due to contextual factors and to a lesser degree to individual factors.
Anna Giolbas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Transfers and conditionalities under different regime types
European Journal of Political Economy, 2017Co-Authors: Marina Dodlova, Anna GiolbasAbstract:This paper examines the implications of political factors for Social policy choices. Specifically, we explore the link between regime type and adoption of unconditional Transfers versus Transfers conditioned on beneficiaries’ investments in human capital. Due to the direct nature of benefits, unconditional Transfers are more likely to be used to buy off opposition and prevent Social unrest. As Transfers that are conditioned on education and health pay off only in a relatively distant future, they are rarely initiated for political motives and rather defined by interests of long-term development and human capital accumulation. Using the new dataset on Non-Contributory Social Transfer Programs (NSTP) in developing countries, we find that Transfers are indeed chosen so as to be unconditional under less democratic regimes. There is some evidence that conditional Transfers are more likely to be adopted in democracies. In particular, democracies tend to increase the number of conditional schemes once any Social Transfer program is introduced.
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Non-contributory Social Transfer programs in developing countries : A new dataset and research agenda
Data in Brief, 2017Co-Authors: Marina Dodlova, Anna GiolbasAbstract:Social Transfer programs in developing countries are designed to contribute to poverty reduction by increasing the income of the poor in order to ensure minimal living standards. In addition, Social Transfers provide a safety net for the vulnerable, who are typically not covered by contributory Social security. The question of how effective such programs are in achieving these aims has been the subject of numerous impact evaluations. However, the optimal design of such programs is still unclear. Even less is known about whether the adoption and implementation of Transfer programs is really driven by poverty and neediness or whether other factors also have an influence. To investigate these and other research questions, we have developed a new dataset entitled Non-Contributory Social Transfer Programs (NSTP) in Developing Countries. One advantage of this dataset is that it traces 186 non-contributory programs from 101 countries back in time and presents them in panel form for the period up until 2015. The second advantage is that it contains all the details regarding the various programs’ designs as well as information on costs and coverage in a coded format and thus facilitates both comparative quantitative and in-depth qualitative analyses. While describing the data we discuss a number of examples of how the dataset can be used to explore different issues related to Social policies in developing countries. We present suggestive evidence that the adoption of Social Transfer programs is not based only on pro-poor motives, but rather that Social policy choices differ between political regimes.
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Non-Contributory Social Transfer Programmes in Developing Countries: A New Data Set and Research Agenda
Social Science Research Network, 2016Co-Authors: Marina Dodlova, Anna GiolbasAbstract:Social Transfer programmes in developing countries are designed to contribute to poverty reduction by increasing the income of the poor in order to ensure minimal living standards. In addition, Social Transfers provide a safety net for the vulnerable, who are typically not covered by contributory Social security. The question of how effective such programmes are in achieving these aims has been the subject of numerous impact evaluations. However, the optimal design of such programmes is still unclear. Even less is known about whether the adoption and implementation of Transfer programmes is really driven by poverty and neediness or whether other factors also have an influence. To investigate these and other research questions, we have developed a new data set entitled Non‐Contributory Social Transfer Programmes (NSTP) in Developing Countries. One advantage of this data set is that it traces 186 non‐contributory programmes from 101 countries back in time and presents them in panel form for the period up until 2015. The second advantage is that it contains all the details regarding the various programmes’ designs as well as information on costs and coverage in a coded format and thus facilitates both comparative quantitative and in-depth qualitative analyses. While describing the data we discuss a number of examples of how the data set can be used to explore different issues related to Social policies in developing countries. We present suggestive evidence that the adoption of Social Transfer programmes is not based only on pro‐poor motives, but rather that Social policy choices differ between political regimes.
M. Carmen Blanco-arana - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Transfers and Child Poverty in European Countries: Pro-poor Targeting or Pro-child Targeting?
Journal of Social Policy, 2018Co-Authors: Elena Bárcena-martín, M. Carmen Blanco-arana, Salvador Pérez-morenoAbstract:Children are generally at a higher risk of poverty than the population as a whole, although the mechanisms that lead to their socio-economic vulnerability vary widely across European countries. This paper aims to further our understanding of to what extent cross-country variations in child poverty risk are associated with different ways of Social Transfer targeting: pro-poor versus pro-child targeting. In particular, we address the potential impact on child poverty of countries’ intent to target Transfers at lower incomes and children across 30 European countries. Using a multilevel framework, we find that not only the size of the Transfer system, but also the form of targeting matters in reducing child poverty. Specifically, the countries’ intent to target children matters even more than their intent to target lower incomes, in terms of reducing child poverty. Moreover, the prevalence of multi-generational households in a country seems to be associated with an attempt to protect against child poverty in countries with lower levels of pro-child targeting.
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Assessing the impact of Social Transfer income packages on child poverty in European countries: Pro-child targeting vs pro-poor targeting
2016Co-Authors: Elena Bárcena-martín, M. Carmen Blanco-arana, Salvador Pérez-morenoAbstract:Children are generally at a higher risk of poverty than the population as a whole, although the mechanisms that lead to their socioeconomic vulnerability vary widely across European countries. This paper assesses to what extent Social Transfers explain the variation in levels of child poverty across 30 European countries. Using a multilevel framework, we jointly examine individual characteristics and country-level factors, focusing on specific aspects of Social Transfer systems, namely generosity and targeting. We consider two types of targeting: pro-child (categorical selectivity) and pro-poor (income selectivity).We observe that the variation in child poverty is mainly due to contextual factors and to a lesser degree to individual factors. We conclude that, as stated in the literature, the generosity of Social Transfers matters in reducing child poverty. Nevertheless, our findings go further and demonstrate that targeting children is more effective in reducing the risk of poverty for children than targeting the lower end of income distribution, which should be borne in mind when determining and prioritizing policy orientations and measures for fighting child poverty.
Margit Kraus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Security Strategies and Redistributive Effects in European Social Transfer Systems
Review of Income and Wealth, 2020Co-Authors: Margit KrausAbstract:This paper evaluates the linkage between Social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU Social Transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of Social security strategies. In support of this argument, several ideal-typical strategies are characterized and a classification of European Social Transfer systems is introduced. Subsequently, the redistributive effects of the systems are assessed and the relationship to their class assignment is investigated. We conclude that the redistributive effects differ markedly between systems of different classes, indicating that redistributive patterns are heavily influenced by the adopted strategy mix. Copyright 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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Social Security Strategies and Redistributive Effects in European Social Transfer Systems
Review of Income and Wealth, 2004Co-Authors: Margit KrausAbstract:This paper evaluates the linkage between Social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU Social Transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of Social security strategies. In support of this argument, several idealtypical strategies are characterized and a classification of European Social Transfer systems is introduced. Subsequently, the redistributive effects of the systems are assessed and the relationship to their class assignment is investigated. We conclude that the redistributive effects differ markedly between systems of different classes, indicating that redistributive patterns are heavily influenced by the adopted strategy mix.
