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Poor Kids in a Rich Country : America's Children in Comparative Perspective /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Rainwater, Lee (Autor), Smeeding, Timothy M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage, [2003]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
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.