title: Interactions Between Policy Effects, Population Characteristics and the Tax-Benefit System: An Illustration Using Child Poverty and Child Related Policies in Romania and the Czech Republic.
abstract: We investigate the impact of the Romanian and Czech family policy systems on the poverty risk of families with children. We focus on separating out the effects of policy design itself and size of benefits from the interaction between policies and population characteristics. We find that interactions between population characteristics, the wider tax benefit system and child related policies are pervasive and large. Both population characteristics and the wider tax-benefit environment can dramatically alter the antipoverty effect of a given set of policies.
authors.affiliation: ISER, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO43SQ UK.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Avram
authors.affiliation: National Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection, 6-8 Povernei Street, Sector 1, 010643 Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Militaru
keywords: Child benefits; Child poverty; Microsimulation; Policy interactions; Population interactions