Micro-simulating child poverty in 2010 and 2020

Brewer, Mike; Browne, James; Joyce, Robert; Sutherland, Holly

doi:10.1920/co.ifs.2009.0108

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“…Space precludes discussion of historical analysis and experience, but contemporary approaches in the devolved territories within the UK and some allusion to regional and local strategies are included. Discussion of factors driving the conditions that produce and/or maintain the 'low income' in which so many UK households still live is also very limited here; for examination of this aspect, both in general and in relation to nutritional intervention, the reader is directed to the literature (5)(6)(7)(8) , monitoring sites (9)(10)(11)(12) and earlier articles published in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (13,14) .…”

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Symposium on ‘Intervention policies for deprived households’ Policy initiatives to address low-income households' nutritional needs in the UK

Dowler

2008

Proc. Nutr. Soc.

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Members of low-income households in the UK are more likely to have patterns of food and nutrient intakes that are less inclined to lead to good health outcomes in the short and long term. Health inequalities, including the likelihood of child and adulthood obesity, have long been documented in the UK and show little sign of improving so far, despite 10 years of attention from a government that has committed itself to addressing them. Following the Acheson Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (1998) in England a number of initiatives to tackle inequalities in food and diet were established, both nationally and within the devolved nations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Nevertheless, until recently, there has been no overall strategic policy addressing the food and nutritional needs of low-income households. The present paper reviews how the problems have been constructed and understood and how they have been addressed, briefly drawing on recent evaluations of food and nutrition policies in Scotland and Wales. The contemporary challenge is to frame cross-cutting policy initiatives that move beyond simple targeting and local actions, encompass a life-course approach and recognise both the diversity of households that fall into 'low-income' categories and the need for 'upstream' intervention.UK low-income households: Food and nutritional needs: Policy initiatives

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Symposium on ‘Intervention policies for deprived households’ Policy initiatives to address low-income households' nutritional needs in the UK

Dowler

2008

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“…Such models allow for explicit simulation of the entire income distribution, which enables precise quantification of the effect on relative poverty of rises in the relative poverty line caused by rises in the median income; and such models enable us to estimate precisely the impact of direct tax and benefit changes (including often complicated interactions between them) on household incomes. This report extends and refines the methodology of Brewer, Browne and Sutherland (2006), and Brewer, Browne and Joyce (2011) in applying such techniques to project child and working-age poverty at the level of the UK and its constituent nations. Pensioner poverty cannot be adequately modelled using these techniques.…”

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Child and working-age poverty in Northern Ireland from 2010 to 2020

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2013

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“…Microsimula on is a widely used approach to analyse the impact of changes to tax and benefit policies on different groups in society (see for instance Hancock and Sutherland (1992) and Mi on (2000) for reviews) and microsimula on has been applied specifically to the study of the impact of policy on child poverty in a number of countries (Corak et al, 2005;Brewer et al, 2006;Figari et al, 2009) …”

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