Trends in Child Poverty in Sweden: Parental and Child Reports

Child Indicators Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 825-854

  Mood, Carina ^a,b   Jonsson, Jan O ^a,b,c  

^a Institute for Futures Studies Stockholm   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child poverty; Child reports; Child wellbeing; Consequences of income inequality; Economic problems; Poverty in rich countries; Poverty indicators; Poverty trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979210354     PISSN: 1874897X     EISSN: 18748988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12187-015-9337-z     Document Type: Article

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