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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP. Impact of Poverty and Social Exclusion on Children’s Lives and their Well-being 8th – 9th September 2008 Bratislava. CHILD POVERTY – A MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT. Amélia Bastos. Carla Machado. School of Economics and Management. School of Economics and Management.

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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

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  1. INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP Impact of Poverty and Social Exclusion on Children’s Lives and their Well-being 8th – 9th September 2008 Bratislava CHILD POVERTY – A MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT Amélia Bastos Carla Machado Schoolof Economics and Management School of Economics and Management Technical University of Lisbon Technical University of Lisbon CEMAPRE CEMAPRE

  2. Outline 1 Motivation 2 Methodological framework 3 Results from the empirical analysis 4 Consequences derived from the principal findings

  3. 1 Motivation Dimension of child poverty Consequences of living in poverty for children Ethics and social justice

  4. 2 Methodological framework – 1/2 Data: 5000 observations Child – statistical unit of analysis Child poverty: multidimensional concept Material and non-material issues Deprivation – domains: Education, Health, Housing and Social Integration Fuzzy conceptualization – Fuzzy Set Theory

  5. 2 Methodological framework – 2/2 Measures of child poverty Composite Index of Deprivation Risk of Deprivation Evaluation of socio-demographic and economic attributes – Probit model

  6. 3 Results from the empirical analysis - 1/3 Composite Index of Deprivation (CID) Social Integration is the domain that most contributes to child deprivation Education is on the opposite side

  7. 3 Results from the empirical analysis - 2/3 CID by socio-demographic attributes emphasizes the importance of: Being black Living in lone parent’s families Living without any of the parents Having illiterate parents

  8. 3 Results from the empirical analysis - 3/3 CID by economic attributes emphasizes the importance of: Living with unemployed parents Having parents with low professional occupations Being income poor Deprivation risk 20% of children are at-risk-of-deprivation Deprived children: deprivation pattern and attributes evaluation

  9. 4 Consequences derived from the principal findings Deprivation and income poverty do not overlap Importance of the child-cantered analysis Importance of measures targeted to specific groups

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