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The Prince and the Pauper: Movement of Children up and down the Canadian Income Distribution

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  • Peter Burton
  • Shelley Phipps
  • Lihui Zhang

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This paper uses longitudinal microdata from the Statistics Canada National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) to study the family income dynamics of Canadian children from the time they are 4 or 5 until they are 14 or 15. Dynamics of family income have been studied less often than dynamics of child poverty. Yet we argue that from the perspective of equity, it is important to know the extent to which some children are always affluent while other children are always poor. Also, since our social safety net is designed to shelter Canadians, including children, from both economic hardship and economic loss, it is also important, from the perspective of policy, to assess risk factors for persistent low income as well as correlates of major economic loss.

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  • Peter Burton & Shelley Phipps & Lihui Zhang, 2014. "The Prince and the Pauper: Movement of Children up and down the Canadian Income Distribution," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 40(2), pages 111-125, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:40:y:2014:i:2:p:111-125
    DOI: 10.3138/cpp.2012-034
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    1. Peter Burton & Shelley Phipps, 2017. "Economic Well-Being of Canadian Children," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 43(4), pages 299-330, December.
    2. Anne Blumenthal & David W. Rothwell, 2018. "The Measurement and Description of Child Income and Asset Poverty in Canada," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 11(6), pages 1907-1933, December.

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