Child Poverty and Deprivation in the Industrialized Countries, 1945-1995

The authors in this volume utilize a common analytical framework to evaluate how economic, family structure, and public policy changes affected the well-being of children in the industrialized countries in the West and the East from the end of the Second World War to the mid-1990s. Throughout the industrialized world, the living standards and social well-being of children improved remarkably over these five decades. But the quarter-century 'golden age' that followed the Second method...
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The authors in this volume utilize a common analytical framework to evaluate how economic, family structure, and public policy changes affected the well-being of children in the industrialized countries in the West and the East from the end of the Second World War to the mid-1990s. Throughout the industrialized world, the living standards and social well-being of children improved remarkably over these five decades. But the quarter-century 'golden age' that followed the Second method to quantify the benefits of non-marketed environmental goods and attributes so that they could be entered directly in benefit­cost analysis. The 1980s saw an explosion in the number of CV studies in the USA, the establishment of a more substantial European literature, and the first developing world applications. Academic debate intensified, and CV was further accepted into the institutional decision-making process. The Exxon Valdez disaster raised awareness of the meth od, asthe State of Alaska commissioned expert CV assessments of the resultant non-use damages and the Exxon Company commissioned expert assessments of the validity of the CV approach. The disaster