A major study of child poverty in industrialised countries using 'dynamic analysis' and cross-national comparisons.

Part I. Issues and Cross-National Evidence: 1. Beyond the snapshot: a dynamic view of child poverty Bruce Bradbury, Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright; 2. Conceptual and measurement issues Bruce Bradbury, Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright; 3. Child poverty across 25 countries Bruce Bradbury and Markus Jäntti; 4. The dynamics of child poverty in seven industrialised nations Bruce Bradbury, Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright; Part II. Topics in Child Poverty Dynamics: 5. Income mobility and exits from poverty of American children Peter Gottschalk and Sheldon Danziger; 6. Child poverty in Germany: trends and persistence Christian Schluter; 7. Poverty among British children: chronic or transitory? Martha S. Hill and Stephen P. Jenkins; 8. Child income poverty and deprivation dynamics in Ireland Brian Nolan, Bertrand Maître and Dorothy Watson; 9. Young people leaving home: the impact on poverty in Spain Olga Cantó and Magda Mercader-Prats; 10. Are children being left behind in the transition in Hungary? Peter Galasi and Gyula Nagy; 11. Mobility and poverty dynamics among Russian children Jeni Klugman and Alexandre Kolev; Part III. Summary and Policy Conclusions: 12. Thinking about children in time J. Lawrence Aber and David T. Ellwood.