RT Journal Article
T1 Evaluating the effectiveness of social transfer policies on poverty for children with previous experience in poverty
A1 Bárcena-Martín, Elena María
A1 Blanco-Arana, María del Carmen
A1 Pérez-Moreno, Salvador Jesús
K1 Economía
K1 Pobreza
AB This paper assesses the effectiveness of social benefit programs on children who had prior experience with poverty across 27 European countries in the years following the Great Recession (2012–2015). Even though social benefit functions might contribute to alleviating child poverty, our findings highlight that child poverty differs not only across social benefit functions, but also between children with and without previous experience in poverty. While living in a country with comparatively high family/children’s benefits is associated with lower child poverty risk, these benefits do not significantly prevent children from being poor when they have been in poverty in the past year. By contrast, old-age/survivor benefits appear to be strongly associated with a lower risk of poverty for children with previous experience in poverty. This is particularly noticeable in multigenerational households, especially in countries that provide limited support for families with children and allocate significant expenditure to pension benefits. This finding remains consistent even when using lower poverty thresholds.
PB Springer Nature
YR 2023
FD 2023-11-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28910
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28910
LA eng
NO Bárcena-Martín, E., Blanco-Arana, M.C. & Pérez-Moreno, S. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Transfer Policies on Poverty for Children with Previous Experience in Poverty. J Fam Econ Iss (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-023-09939-3
NO Funding for open Access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA.Partial financial support was received from the Spanish Institute for Fiscal Studies and Grant PID2020-115429GB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026