1. La pauvreté des enfants à la naissance en France. Résultats de l’enquête Elfe
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Lidia Panico, Marion Leturcq, Barbara Castillo Rico, Sohler, Karin, Institut national d'études démographiques (INED), Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques (AMSE), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Banque de France (Banque de France), Banque de France, ANR-11-EQPX-0038,RE-CO-NAI,Plateforme de REcherche sur les COhortes d'enfants suivis depuis la NAIssance(2011), and École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Deprivation ,Pauvreté ,Population ,Energy Engineering and Power Technology ,First year of life ,Multiple deprivation ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences ,Childhood poverty ,0502 economics and business ,Elfe survey ,Child poverty ,Conditions de vie ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,050207 economics ,10. No inequality ,education ,ACLN ,Children ,Poverty ,Enfants ,education.field_of_study ,4. Education ,05 social sciences ,1. No poverty ,Living conditions ,Enquête Elfe ,Fuel Technology ,Increased risk ,Geography ,8. Economic growth ,Cohort ,Demographic economics ,France ,[SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences ,050104 developmental & child psychology - Abstract
Income has been increasingly criticized as an indicator of childhood living conditions, especially at young ages. In this paper, we present a picture of poverty and multi-dimensional deprivation of children in France, around the time of their birth and during the first year of life. To do so, we use both an income poverty measure as well as a multiple deprivation approach, applied to a nationally representative survey of over 18,000 children born in France in 2011 (the Elfe cohort). We examine four dimensions of children's daily lives : material conditions ; parenting ; housing conditions ; and extreme housing conditions. Our results show that income poverty does not always overlap with deprivation : some children live in income-poor households without being deprived in the dimensions we study, and vice versa. Notably, we find only a small overlap between extreme housing deprivation or parental involvement and income poverty. Furthermore, we show that the population groups most at risk of deprivation in early life vary according to the dimension considered, and are distinct from the determinants of income poverty. For example, while single motherhood is the main driver of income poverty, it is not associated with an increased risk of housing deprivation nor with low parental involvement, when other socio-demographic characteristics are controlled for. This approach therefore adds more precision and nuance to our understanding of child poverty at very young ages in France., Castillo Rico Barbara, Leturcq Marion, Panico Lidia. Childhood poverty and deprivation at the starting gate in France. Examples using Elfe survey. In: Revue des politiques sociales et familiales, n°131-132, 2019. Le bien-être des enfants : un enjeu politique / Understanding children's well-being: A political issue. pp. 175-188.
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- 2020