BACKGROUND Over the past few decades, cohort fertility rates in the different countries of
the United Kingdom (England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland) have diverged …

In many countries, large families with three or more children have high income poverty rates.
In this article, we aim to understand why this is the case by examining the relevance of family …

Introduction Work and family trajectories develop and interact over the life course in complex
ways. Previous studies drew a fragmented picture of these trajectories and had limited …

Motivated by the growing prominence of fertility incentivisation and long‐term child
development in European family policymaking, this paper examines the distribution of …

Child poverty is impacted to a great extent by family demography, with large families and
single parents having a greater risk of being poor. Using the EU‐SILC microdata, we …

Abstract: Policies aimed at the family are an important tool for governments to achieve
various goals to improve society, manage populations, enhance well-being, and reduce …

The extent of social protection provided to families with children varies according to each
country's unique economic, social, and demographic conditions. The most important factors …

Social spending in Croatia is mainly based on social protection, public healthcare and
education policies. There are two forms of investing in children through the social spending …

Historically, researchers and policymakers alike recognized the risk of poverty among large
families, but family size is often neglected in the contemporary literature. This article revives …

Social benefits are essential in providing support to families with children, especially in the
first years of the child's life as well as to families at risk of poverty (large families, parents …