Poor Kids in a Rich Country : America's Children in Comparative Perspective /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage,
[2003]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Taking the definition of poverty seriously
- I: Child poverty and inequity at the end of the twentieth century
- 1. Child poverty in rich countries in the 1990s: an overview
- 2. Patterns of child economic well-being
- 3. Child poverty and population: is demography destiny?
- 4. Periods of poverty: how long are children poor?
- 5. Income packaging: market income and the state
- 6. Child poverty and income packaging in two-parent families
- 7. Child poverty and income packaging in single-mother families
- 8. Is there hope for America's low-income children?
- II: Choice and method in research on poverty
- 9. Establishing a poverty line
- 10. Establishing equivalent family income
- 11. Whence the poverty standard--nations or communities?
- The Luxembourg income study project
- The U.S. state database and regional combinations in other countries in the Luxembourg income study
- From relative income to real income
- Reweighting to assess the impact of demography versus income packaging.