Comparing Inequality in the Well-being of Children in Economically Advanced Countries: A methodology
Innocenti Working Papers 2010-19
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Currie, Candace;
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Currie, Dorothy;
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Menchini, Leonardo;
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Richardson, Dominic;
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Roberts, Chris;
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Socio-economic research on child well-being and the debate around child indicators has evolved quite rapidly in recent decades. An important contribution to this trend is represented by international comparative research based on multi-dimensional child well-being frameworks: most of this research is based on the comparison of average levels of well-being across countries. This paper tries to respond to the complex challenge of going beyond an approach based on averages and proposes a complementary approach to compare inequality in child well-being in economically advanced countries. In particular, it focuses on the disparities at the bottom-end of the child well-being distribution, by comparing the situation of the ‘median’ child and the situation of the children at the bottom of the well-being scale for nine indicators of material conditions, education and health.
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Thematic area
Child Poverty /
Social Policies /
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child well-being /
education
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health
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housing
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industrialized countries /
social conditions /