NDLI: The Costs of Children—A Comparison of Standard Budget and Income Approach

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Author	Borgeraas, Elling Brusdal, Ragnhild
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	In social policy there are many assumptions about the cost of children, but these are often made with lack of evidence about what it actually costs to bring up a child. In this article we draw a principal division between measures designed for comparative analysis and monitoring the development in inequality in the one hand, and measures to inform policy on the other. Income poverty is used as an example of the former, while the standard budget is a policy oriented measure. When it comes to measure children's needs the income poverty measure becomes too abstract, and almost useless as input in legitimate political actions supporting families with children. An action oriented measure has to be filled with content; that is to make an explicit connection between basic needs and the items and activities that are necessary to satisfy these needs. We launch some principal arguments that the Standard Budget approach is best suited for this task.
Starting Page	372
Ending Page	386
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1874897X
Journal	Child Indicators Research
Volume Number	1
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	18748988
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-08-15
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Standard budget Children Income approach Welfare Childhood Education Quality of Life Research Child & School Psychology Social Work Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Health (social science) Social Psychology

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