Gabriele Mari

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Sociologist @Erasmus University Rotterdam Social security, families, income/wealth https://sites.google.com/view/marigabriele/home

The figure shows reports of economic insecurity plotted against earnings from paid work. Earnings increase from left to right. At zero, earnings cross the Carer's Allowance limit of around 150 GBP per week. Past this limit, a carer loses eligibility for the allowance. Carers who never report receipt of the allowance in the survey experience less and less insecurity when their earnings are higher. For those with a history of benefit receipt, instead, insecurity doesn't decline smoothly. Arrears, the inability to save regularly, and money worries all spike past the earnings limit set by the allowance.
Parenting seems most affected by income gains among women in the sample. Estimates suggest lower warmth and more harshness and permissiveness as households with higher incomes experience repeated income gains. The opposite effects are often found in households with lower incomes.
The distribution of self-reported parenting styles is largely similar across households with different income levels at baseline.
Parental reports of parent-child interactions match with youth reports. There is a positive association between parental reports of warmth and the frequency with which youth confide in their parents. There is a negative association between parental warmth and youth reports on the frequency of quarrelling with parents. The reversed pattern holds for harsh and permissive parenting measures.
Replication of main findings for the UK with data collected in the period 2021-2023. Youth with worse relative health than their peers reports worse health if household is on Universal Credit.
For the UK, findings are mostly null in these analyses, although often with a negative sign in line with results from average estimates and quantile regression.
The picture shows the distribution of mental health reports among children distinguishing those in families who will/did access support during the pandemic and those who will/did not.
The table provides details on the timing, generosity, conditionalities, and target population of different income support programs in the UK, Ireland and Australia during the pandemic.
The graph displays the effects of accessing income support programs during the pandemic on mental health reports by adolescents in the UK, Ireland, and Australia. The three countries variously expanded income support programs in the pandemic period. The generous and comprehensive approach adopted in Australia had the most beneficial effects, especially for children with worse health relative to their peers. In Ireland, estimates are more inconclusive, whilst in the UK access to income support is tied to worse mental health reports for children at the bottom of the health distribution.
Summary of paper: benefit cutbacks in the UK in the 2010s unequally affected families with adolescent children, with those on lower incomes and headed by a single parent bearing the brunt both financially and health-wise
Losses (GBP) in the corresponding source of benefit income for 9 major austerity reforms in the UK 2011-2013. Parents of adolescent children, Understanding Society data (Waves 1-10)
Losses (GBP) in the corresponding source of benefit income for 9 major austerity reforms in the UK 2011-2013. Parents of adolescent children, Understanding Society data (Waves 1-10)