New global estimates of child poverty and their sensitivity to alternative equivalence scales

Newhouse, David; Becerra, Pablo Suarez; Evans, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2017.06.007

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“…Over one in five girls and boys ages 0-14 live in a poor household and they represent 44 percent of the poor population. As already documented by Newhouse et al (2017) using the same dataset, 19.5 percent of all children younger than 18 are estimated to live on less than $1.90 per day, a bit over double the estimate for adults (9.2 percent). Girls and boys are consistently poorer than adults and seniors, and poverty is higher for children younger than 5 years of age, regardless of sex 22 .…”

Section: Gender Profiles Of the Poorsupporting

confidence: 53%

Gender Differences in Poverty and Household Composition through the Life-cycle: A Global Perspective

Boudet¹,

Buitrago²,

Briere³

et al. 2018

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This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world. In the absence of individual-level poverty data, the paper looks at what can we learn in terms of gender differences by looking at the available individual and household level information. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. The paper focuses on the relationship between age, sex and poverty. And finds that, girls and women of reproductive age are more likely to live in poor households (below the international poverty line) than boys and men. It finds that 122 women between the ages of 25 and 34 live in poor households for every 100 men of the same age group. The analysis also examines the household profiles of the poor, seeking to go beyond headship definitions. Using a demographic household composition shows that nuclear family households of two married adults and children account for 41 percent of poor households, and are the most frequent household where poor women are found. Using an economic household composition classification, households with a male earner, children and a non-income earner spouse are the most frequent among the poor at 36 percent, and the more frequent household where poor women live. For individuals, as well as for households, the presence of children increases the household likelihood to be poor, and this has a specific impact on women, but does not fully explain the observed female poverty penalty.

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Section: Gender Profiles Of the Poorsupporting

confidence: 53%

Gender Differences in Poverty and Household Composition through the Life-cycle: A Global Perspective

Boudet¹,

Buitrago²,

Briere³

et al. 2018

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“…With the assumption that economies of scale exist in household consumption and the concerns of self-employed households, our estimates might profile extreme poverty in developed nations more accurately. Similar to the patterns reported by Newhouse et al (2017), we found that child poverty rates are higher than adult poverty ratios in all countries studied, regardless of which equivalence scale is used. That being said, it is demonstrated that 1 in 30 children in the US experiences homelessness every year (Bassuk et al 2014).…”

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confidence: 88%

Deep and Extreme Child Poverty in Rich and Poor Nations: Lessons from Atkinson for the Fight Against Child Poverty

Cai

Smeeding

2019

Ital Econ J

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The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in two clusters: Anglo-Saxon high-income countries and upper middle-income countries. We also investigate the influence of different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and the redistributive effects that materialize through private transfers, public benefits, and tax systems on generating poverty reduction. Overall, middle-income nations have witnessed continuous reductions in their extreme child poverty rates, while mild decreases or fluctuations have been observed in the five high-income nations, with the US highlighted by its relatively high rates of deep and extreme poverty regardless of absolute or relative measures and type of equivalence scale used. Private institutions play a larger role in poverty reduction in middle-income nations compared to its impact on developed nations. The degree of dependence on universal or assistance benefits varies among high-income nation. In the US, universal programs tend to be meager, while Australian social insurance and universal benefit are robust in their fight against deep poverty. Brazil stands out by its overwhelmingly large proportion of social insurance programs that contribute to improvements of its deep child poverty situation, and South Africa's assistance benefit system performs better in lifting children out of deep poverty.

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“…Batana, Bussolo, and Cockburn (), in a study of 73 countries, find that poverty rates fall significantly and especially among different age groups when using per capita estimates compared with estimates that use adult equivalence scales. Newhouse, Bercerra and Evans () found that the dominance of child poverty is consistent irrespective of equivalence scales and absolute levels of adult poverty vary significantly by the estimators unlike child rates. Overall, there appears to be little consensus on whether one approach to measuring poverty dominates another or under what conditions the choice of measurement is dependent upon household structure.…”

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Do Adult Equivalence Scales Matter in Poverty Estimates? A Northern Ghana Case Study and Simulation

Regier

Zereyesus

Dalton

et al. 2018

J of Intl Development

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We test the sensitivity of per capita expenditures to several methods of per adult equivalent expenditures to control for economies of scale and household composition. Simulation analysis determines the indifference point between per capita expenditures and per adult equivalent measures in order to identify the factors contributing to the dominance of one measure over another. Results indicate that overall poverty and inequality measures in northern Ghana are highly sensitive to the use of equivalence scales. Poverty measures for children and the elderly and in urban and rural areas are also sensitive to equivalence scales.

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New global estimates of child poverty and their sensitivity to alternative equivalence scales

Cited by 20 publications

References 15 publications

Gender Differences in Poverty and Household Composition through the Life-cycle: A Global Perspective

Gender Differences in Poverty and Household Composition through the Life-cycle: A Global Perspective

Deep and Extreme Child Poverty in Rich and Poor Nations: Lessons from Atkinson for the Fight Against Child Poverty

Do Adult Equivalence Scales Matter in Poverty Estimates? A Northern Ghana Case Study and Simulation

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