Fighting Child Poverty in Spain by Moving Towards European Standards: A Microsimulation-Based Case Study
[EN] Poverty in Spain is widespread among children, and its incidence has recently shown a strong upward trend. The aim of this paper is twofold: to assess the impact of the Spanish tax and benefit system on current child poverty rates and, in that context, to simulate the potential distributive con...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2026 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dnet:riunet______::4f87e67422277f37bb899e6ee1ae7eda |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/235328 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Child poverty Spain Microsimulation Universal transfers |
| Sumario: | [EN] Poverty in Spain is widespread among children, and its incidence has recently shown a strong upward trend. The aim of this paper is twofold: to assess the impact of the Spanish tax and benefit system on current child poverty rates and, in that context, to simulate the potential distributive consequences of implementing a variety of family transfer schemes using an EU-wide static microsimulation tool (EUROMOD). We simulate and study the effects of choosing different policies: a redesign of the current means-tested child benefit in terms of amount and age distribution, a reform of the existing income tax relief making it refundable and the addition of a taxable Universal Child Benefit (UCB) to the system. Our results indicate that several of the proposed reforms could generate substantial reductions in child poverty. |
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