Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267033 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 833
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
I propose a disaggregated analysis of the income that households receive to compare the redistributive capacity of the state taking child poverty as case of study. I use the LIS Database and cross-nationally compare six countries: Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Russia, and South Africa. I created an income package to include a variety of income definitions based on the different sources of income of households: market income, income from private transfers (MI plus PT), and income from government transfers or disposable income. I included these countries because the access to gross income allows to assess in each country to what extent taxes and government transfers reduce the child poverty generated by the market. I use the last three time series available at the LIS for the six countries, which coincide with the period post-crisis 2008: Wave VIII (2010), Wave XIX (2013) and Wave X (2016). I cross-nationally compare the relative child poverty at 40%, 50%, and 60% of the median income for each of the incomes included in the income package for the following ages: 0-17 years old, 0-5 years old, and 6-17 years old, and for the following types of family: biparental and monomarental. I also analyze the Gini coefficient and the relative rate of poverty for the total population.
Subjects: 
child poverty
middle-income countries
redistribution
inequality
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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