Child Benefit Portfolios Across OECD Countries

Cho, Esther Yin-Nei

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“…Cross-country comparison research involving 17-high-income countries has shown that single parent families in the US are worst off that they have the highest rate of low-wage employment, the highest post-transfer poverty rate, and a later age for public early childhood education; it is also the only one of the studied countries that lacks entitled paid parental leave and a child allowance program (Casey and Maldonado 2012). Whereas the average country in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development invested 2.6% of its gross domestic product (GDP) in all types of child benefits (of which almost half consisted of cash transfers), the United States spent less than 1.2% of its GDP on all child benefits in 2009 (Cho 2017). Yet, that year was a historic high, reflecting the American Recovery andReinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA 2009), which expanded several social benefit programs in response to the increasing economic hardship of the GR (Chang 2015;Chang and Romich 2021).…”

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Examining Low-Income Single-Mother Families’ Experiences with Family Benefit Packages during and after the Great Recession in the United States

Chang

2021

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The recent economic recession triggered by the global pandemic has renewed scholarly interest in the role of social welfare systems in supporting economically vulnerable families when they experience employment instability. This article unpacks the patterns of the cash and in-kind components of the monthly family benefit packages that US low-income single mothers accessed during and after the Great Recession. We used the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation and an innovative analytic procedure involving family benefit package plots, group-based trajectory modeling, and logistic regression modeling. We found that low-income single mothers more often used in-kind basic-needs packages and less often used packages that bundle a cash benefit or a childcare subsidy, regardless of their dynamic employment status. Our findings challenge the effectiveness of the US work-based welfare system in ensuring the economic security of economically vulnerable families and contribute to the policy discussions on unconditional basic income and President Biden’s American Families Plan.

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Examining Low-Income Single-Mother Families’ Experiences with Family Benefit Packages during and after the Great Recession in the United States

Chang

2021

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“…Uwzględniono świadczenia powszechne, selektywne, jednorazowe, wielokrotne i zależne od dochodu. Dobór publikacji miał na celu pokazanie szerokiego spektrum możliwych efektów oddziaływania tych transferów, często zależnych od otoczenia instytucjonalnego, w którym są implementowane (Cho, 2017). Nie są one wystarczającą przesłanką do wnioskowania o pojedynczym rozwiązaniu, którego skutki zależą także od całego zestawu instrumentów polityki rodzinnej danego kraju.…”

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Pieniężne instrumenty polityki rodzinnej a dzietność i aktywność zawodowa kobiet

Zajkowska

2020

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Dzietność poniżej prostej zastępowalności pokoleń występująca w krajach rozwiniętych, a zwłaszcza niska dzietność utrzymująca się w wielu z nich, stanowi ważną przesłankę dyskusji o rozwiązaniach polityki rodzinnej wspierających wzrost dzietności. Jednym z narzędzi polityki rodzinnej są zasiłki na dzieci. Artykuł podejmuje próbę przeglądu skuteczności różnych form świadczeń pieniężnych na dzieci zarówno w odniesieniu do dzietności jak i pracy zawodowej kobiet. Zwrócono też uwagę na inne efekty, w tym związane z dobrostanem dzieci. Wyniki prowadzą do wniosku, zgodnego z ustaleniami innych analiz porównawczych, że wpływ na dzietność tych świadczeń jest zależny od kontekstu instytucjonalnego, w jakim są wdrażane. Zwraca też uwagę na konieczność rozpatrywania zasiłków wraz z innymi instrumentami polityki rodzinnej.

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“…South Korea (hereafter Korea) recently implemented a universal child benefit in the form of CA in 2018, which was 50 years later than other OECD countries. Despite recent increases in public expenditure on family programs in both the United States and Korea, they remain as the countries that invest the fewest resources in children compared to their counterparts (Moffitt, 2015; Cho, 2017). Therefore, conducting a comprehensive assessment of the impacts of universal child benefit is crucial to provide evidence for policymaking and inform the ongoing public and political discourse on the subject in both countries.…”

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A comprehensive literature review of the impact of child tax credit/child allowance in the United States and South Korea

Choi

Lee

2023

IJSSP

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PurposeThe America Rescue Plan (ARP) transformed the Child Tax Credit (CTC) into a more generous, inclusive monthly payment from July through December 2021. However, the expansion has been terminated and the annual CTC has been reinstated. The United States is one of the few OECD countries that do not have a child allowance system and South Korea has recently adopted child allowance in 2018. This study aims to comprehensively review the existing literature and evidence on ARP-CTC in the United States and Universal Child Allowance (CA) in Korea.Design/methodology/approachThe researchers completed a database search between July 1, 2022 and July 20, 2022. For the United States, the search keywords were child tax credit OR expanded child tax credit OR CTC OR child allowance. For Korea, the search keyword was child allowance. Searches were conducted using 79 databases. A total of 36 US studies and 7 Korean studies met all the inclusion criteria and proceeded to the extraction process. A narrative thematic synthesis approach was employed to identify themes in the findings. The results were organized based on the characteristics of the studies and the post-intervention outcomes.FindingsStudies in the United States focused primarily on economic outcomes, including poverty and material hardship, reflecting the concern policymakers and researchers have about child poverty. On the other hand, Korean studies examined employment, economic well-being, psychological well-being and expenditures in a relatively balanced share. Overall, studies found that both ARP-Child Tax Credits and Universal Child Allowance reduced child poverty and improved material hardship. Also, studies in both countries suggested that both policies had positive impacts on parental psychological well-being.Originality/valueTo the authors knowledge, this paper is the first to comprehensively review the impact of the US ARP-CTC in comparison with the Korean child allowance. Two studies reviewed and updated the literature on US ARP-CTC as a round-up paper. Moreover, the authors conduct cross-national comparative analyses between the United States and Korea. The contexts of the child allowance system in the two nations have both similarities and differences, thereby offering a unique opportunity for a comparative study.

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Child Benefit Portfolios Across OECD Countries

Cited by 9 publications

References 30 publications

Examining Low-Income Single-Mother Families’ Experiences with Family Benefit Packages during and after the Great Recession in the United States

Examining Low-Income Single-Mother Families’ Experiences with Family Benefit Packages during and after the Great Recession in the United States

Pieniężne instrumenty polityki rodzinnej a dzietność i aktywność zawodowa kobiet

A comprehensive literature review of the impact of child tax credit/child allowance in the United States and South Korea

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