ArticleNature human behaviour2025
Intergenerational persistence of poverty in five high-income countries.
Article in Nature human behaviour, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Impact of Households' Income Sources on Child's Multidimensional Poverty in South Africa.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2026Article
- Dentine markers of pre/early postnatal lead exposure links with brain, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes in adolescents.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Child-Friendly Neighborhood for Early Childhood: a cross-sectional study on child development and urban infrastructure.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2026Article
- Screening and understanding adolescents with money worries via a web-based stress check: A latent class analysis.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
- Relative and combined contributions of adverse childhood experiences and self-reported child poverty to health and economic outcomes in adults - a retrospective study in a UK region.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Intergenerational poverty persistence.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Geographical variation in the long-arm of childhood.Health & place · 2025Article
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Abstract
Childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of-and mechanisms underpinning-the intergenerational persistence of poverty. Here the authors investigate differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States, Australia, Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom using administrative- and survey-based panel datasets. Intergenerational poverty is decomposed into family background effects, mediation effects, tax and transfer insurance effects and a residual poverty penalty. The intergenerational persistence of poverty is 0.43 in the United States (95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.40-0.46; P < 0.001), compared with 0.16 in the United Kingdom (95% CI = 0.07-0.25; P < 0.001) and 0.08 in Denmark (95% CI = 0.08-0.08; P < 0.001). The US disadvantage is not channelled through family background, mediators, neighbourhood effects or racial or ethnic discrimination. Instead, the United States has comparatively weak tax and transfer insurance effects and a more severe residual poverty penalty. If the United States were to adopt the tax and transfer insurance effects of its peer countries, its intergenerational poverty persistence could decrease by more than one-third.
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