CSB Working Papers

WP 24/09 Da Costa, S., Decancq, K., Fleurbaey, M. & Schokkaert E.- Preference elicitation methods and equivalent income: an overview​

WP 24/08  Tóth, I. Gy, Gábos, A., Cantillon, B. & Nolan, B. - Title Interactions between the social and employment objectives of the European Union​

WP 24/07  Akarçeşme, S., Cantillon, B., Gábos, A., Nolan, B. & Tóth, I. Gy - The Prospects of Achieving the European Social Inclusion Targets through Employment Growth: Lessons for the European Social Agenda​

WP 24/06  Haapanala, H. - Public spending reforms, austerity and trust in government: a synthetic control analysis of the EU-28​

WP 24/05  Mariani, G. & Cantillon, B. - Measuring the impact of demographic change on relative income poverty in Belgium

WP 24/04  Van Loon, V. & Decancq, K. - Well-BOA: Exploring a New Preference-Based Instrument to Compare Well-Being Across Older People

WP 24/03  Marx, I., Haapanala, H. & Marchal, S. - Is poverty reduction in Europe doomed? Conjectures, facts and a cautiously optimistic conclusion​

WP 24/02  Nardo, A., Marchal, S. & Marx, I. - Safety net or sieve: Do Europe's minimum income schemes reach the poor?​

WP 24/01  Marx, I. - Basic Income advocates, sober up​

WP 23/12  Cantillon, B., Lemmens, A., Neelen, W. & van den Broeck, R. - Silent elements of policy change: inflation and uprating mechanisms in the Low Countries​

WP 23/11  Akarçeşme, S., Aranguiz, A., Lemmens, A. & Cantillon, B. - Reaching the European 2030 poverty target: The imperative for balancing the EU Social Agenda​

WP 23/10  Leitner, L. - Imprecision in the Estimation of Willingness to Pay Using Subjective Well-Being Data​

WP 23/09  Seré, M. - Don’t Stop Me Now: Gender Attitudes in Academic Seminars Through Machine Learning​

WP 23/08  Cabeza, B. - Social preferences, support for redistribution, and attitudes towards vulnerable groups​

WP 23/07  Cabeza, B. & Da Costa, S. - Taxation for development: the impact of the Ebola epidemic on citizen support across Western Africa​

WP 23/06  Greiss, J., Hermans, K. & Cantillon, B. - The making of a European Social Union: The case of food banks and the right to minimum income protection​

WP 23/05  Cabeza, B. & Decancq, K. - Social preferences and information about effort and luck: an online survey experiment​

WP 23/04  Wizan, M., Neelen, W. & Marchal, S. - Balancing speed and effectiveness: smoothing income volatility through COVID-19 social policy responses in Belgium​

WP 23/03  Aerts, E., Marx, I. & Verbist, G. - Not That Basic: How Level, Design and Context Matter for the Redistributive Outcomes of Universal Basic Income​

WP 23/02  Salverda, W. & Rook, V. - The vicious entanglement of labour-market and income inequalities in Europe​

WP 23/01  Hermans, K., Cantillon, B., Bernát, A., Carrillo-Alvarez, E., Cussó-Parcerisas, I., Mäkinen, L., Muñoz Martínez, J. & Szivos, P. - Food aid in four European countries: Assessing the price and content of charitable food aid packages by using food basket, household budget survey and contextual data

WP 22/06  Cantillon, B.  Poverty and the Tragedy of the Welfare State. Seven terms for a new social contract​

WP 22/05  Greiss, J., Schoneville, H., Adomavičienė, A., Baltutė, R., Bernat, A., Cantillon, B., Carrillo-Álvarez, E., Delanghe, H., Goderis, B., Hermans, K., van der Horst, H., Michoń, P., Pereira, E.S., Pereirinha, J.A.  Food aid in Europe in times of the COVID-19 crisis. An international survey project​

WP 22/04  Aerts, E., Marx, I. & Parolin, Z. Minimum income support for families with children in Europe and the US: where does it stand?​

WP 22/03  Hick, R. & Marx, I.  Poor workers in rich democracies: On the nature of in-work poverty and its relationship to labour market policies​

WP 22/02  Zsuzsa Lévay, P., Goedemé, T. & Verbist, G.  Income and expenditure elasticity of household carbon footprints. Some methodological considerations​

WP 22/01  Cantillon, B.  The Tragic Decline of the Poverty Reducing Capacity of the Welfare State: Lessons from Two Decades of Social Policy Research

WP 21/11 Hermans, K., Greiss, J., Delanghe, H. & Cantillon, B. Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs-oriented distribution of the social funds?​

WP 21/10  Haapanala, H., Marx, I. & Parolin, Z. Robots and Unions: The Moderating Effect of Organised Labour on Technological Unemployment​

WP 21/09 Van Loon V. & Decancq, K. Using a factorial survey to estimate the relative importance of well-being dimensions according to older people: insights from a repeated survey experiment in Flanders​

WP 21/08 Penne, T., Delanghe, H. & Goedemé, T. An exploration of key factors that determine the affordability of compulsory education in Europe​​

WP 21/07 Cantó Sánchez, O., Figari, F., Fiorio, C., Kuypers, S., Marchal, S., Romaguera de la Cruz, M., Tasseva I. & Verbist G. Welfare resilience at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in four European countries: Impact on public finance and household incomes​

WP 21/06 Lens, D., Marx, I., Oslejová, J. & Mussche, N. Can we steer clear of precariousness in domestic service work? Exploring labour market pathways of Belgian Service Voucher workers​

WP 21/05 Adler, M.D. & Decancq, K. Well-Being Measurement​

WP 21/04 Decancq, K. & Nys, A. Growing Up In A Poor Household In Belgium: A Rank-Based Multidimensional Perspective On Child Well-Being​

WP 21/03 Kuypers, S., Marx, I., Nolan, B. & Palomino, J.C. Lockdown, Earnings Losses and Household Asset Buffers in Europe​

WP 21/02 Kuypers, S. & Marx, I. Poverty in the EU using augmented measures of financial resources: the role of assets and debt​

WP 21/01 Da Costa, S. Estimating the welfare gains from antiretroviral therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa​

WP 20/09 Vinck, J. Income poverty among children with a disability in Belgium: the interplay between parental employment, social background and targeted cash support​

WP 20/08 Midões, C. & Seré, M. Living With Reduced Income: an Analysis of Household Financial Vulnerability Under COVID-19​

WP 20/07 Decancq, K . Bad news does not come alone: Cumulative deprivation in Belgium

WP 20/06 Kuypers, S., Figari, F. & Verbist, G.  An assessment of wealth taxes in a joint income-wealth perspective

WP 20/05 Lévay, P. Z., Vanhille, J., Goedemé, T. & Verbist G. The association between the carbon footprint and the socio-economic characteristics of Belgian households - Supplementary material

WP 20/04 Decancq, K. Measuring cumulative deprivation and affluence based on the diagonal dependence diagram

WP 20/03 Marchal, S., Kuypers S., Marx I., & Verbist G. Singling out the truly needy: the role of asset testing in European minimum income schemes

WP 20/02 Collado, D. The anti-poverty marginal benefit of public funds

WP 20/01 Goedemé, T., & Trindade L. Z. METASILC 2015: A REPORT ON THE CONTENTS AND COMPARABILITY OF THE EU-SILC INCOME VARIABLES

WP 19/12 Goedemé, T., Penne T., Swedrup O., Van den Bosch K., & Storms B. Exploring common ground for defining adequate social participation in 24 EU capital cities

WP 19/11 Da Costa, S. The Impact of the Ebola Crisis on Mortality and Welfare in Liberia

WP 19/10 Penne, T., & Goedemé T. Putting inadequate incomes at the heart of food insecurity. A Study of the financial constraints to access a healthy diet in Europe

WP 19/09 Marchal, S., & Siöland L. A safety net that holds? Tracking minimum income protection adequacy for the elderly, the working and the non-working of active age

WP 19/08 Lens, D., Mussche N., & Marx I. Europe’s ever expanding mobility patterns – posting, third-country nationals and the single European labour market

WP 19/07 Decoster, A., Perelman S., Vandelannoote D., Vanheukelom T., & Verbist G. Which way the pendulum swings? Equity and efficiency of three decades of tax-benefit reforms in Belgium

WP 19/06 Penne, T., Cornelis I., & Storms B. Reducing out-of-pocket costs to improve the adequacy of minimum income protection? Reference budgets as an EU policy indicator: The Belgian case 

WP 19/05 Decancq, K., Fleurbaey M., & Maniquet F. Multidimensional poverty measurement with individual preferences

WP 19/04 Vinck, J., & Brekke I. Gender and education inequalities in parental employment when having a young child with increased care needs: Belgium and Norway compared

WP 19/03 Greiss, J., Cantillon B., Penne T., & Marchal S. Europe as agent that fills the gaps? The case of FEAD

WP 19/02 Cantillon, B. The European Pillar of Social Rights: ten arguments for prioritising principle 14 on minimum incomes

WP 19/01 Parolin, Z., & Siöland L. Support for a Universal Basic Income: A Demand-Capacity Paradox?

WP 18/20 Marchal, S., Siöland L., & Goedemé T. Methodological working paper: Using HHoT to generate institutional minimum income protection indicators

WP 18/19 Hufkens, T., Goedemé T., Gasior K., Leventi C., Manios K., Rastrigina O., Recchia P., Sutherland H., Van Mechelen N., & Verbist G. The Hypothetical Household Tool (HHoT) in EUROMOD: a new instrument for comparative research on tax-benefit policies in Europe

WP 18/18 Cabeza, B., & Decancq K. Effort or Luck? Believing in the role of effort during the Spanish economic recession

WP 18/17 Cantillon, B. Social Security and Poverty Reduction in Rich Welfare States : Cracks in the Post War Policy Paradigm, Avenues for the Future

WP 18/16 Verbist, G., Diris R., & Vandenbroucke F. Solidarity between generations in extended families. Direction, size and intensity

WP 18/15 Vandenbroucke, F. A self-critical flashback on the EU’s anti-poverty promise

WP 18/14 Decancq, K., & Nys A. Non-parametric well-being comparisons

WP 18/13 Mussche, N., & Lens D. The EU Free Movement of Services and the growing mobility of Third-Country Nationals as posted workers

WP 18/12 De Wilde, M., Meuleman B., & Abts K. In a category of their own? A multigroup SEM comparison of the welfare state attitudes of social workers and the general public

WP 18/11 Penne, T., Hufkens T., Goedemé T., & Storms B. To what extent do welfare states compensate for the cost of children? A hypothetical household approach to policy evaluations

WP 18/10 Marx, I., & Verbist G. Belgium, a poster child for inclusive growth?

WP 18/09 Cantillon, B., Parolin Z., & Collado D. Rising Inequalities and Welfare Generosity: Structural Constraints on the Adequacy of Minimum Incomes in European and American Welfare States

WP 18/08 De Wilde, M., & Marchal S. Weighing up work willingness in social assistance: a balancing act on multiple levels

WP 18/06 Vinck, J., Lebeer J., & Van Lancker W. Non-take up of the supplemental child benefit for children with a disability in Belgium: a mixed-method approach

WP 18/05 Kuypers, S., Figari F., & Verbist G. Redistribution in a joint income-wealth perspective: a cross-country comparison

WP 18/04 Parolin, Z. Race, Social Assistance & Child Poverty across the 50 United States

WP 18/03 Collado, D. Financial work incentives and the long-term unemployed: the case of Belgium

WP 18/02 Parolin, Z., & Luigjes C. Incentive to Retrench? Institutional Moral Hazard among Federal & State Social Assistance Programs after Welfare Reform

WP 18/01 Marchal, S., & Van Lancker W. The measurement of targeting intentions in complex welfare states: a proposal and empirical applications

WP 17/12 Gestel, R. V., Goedemé T., Janssens J., Lefevere E., & Lemkens R. A Reminder to Pay Less for Healthcare: take-up of Increased Reimbursement in a large-scale randomized field experiment

WP 17/11 Hufkens, T., Van Mechelen N., Buysse L., & Verbist G. Fit for the labour market? An effort to reduce inactivity traps in the transition from benefit to work in the Belgian sickness and disability system

WP 17/10 Lens, D., Marx I., & Vujić S. Integrating (former) asylum seekers into the Belgian labour market: What can we learn from the recent past?

WP 17/09 Parolin, Z. Applying Augmented Survey Data to Produce More Accurate, Precise, and Internationally Comparable Estimates of Poverty within the 50 United States

WP 17/08 Janssens, J., & Van Mechelen N. Who is to Blame? An Overview of the Factors Contributing to the Non-Take-Up of Social Rights

WP 17/07 Goedemé, T., Penne T., Hufkens T., Karakitsios A., Bernát A., Simonovits B., Alvarez E. C., Kanavitsa E., Cussó Parcerisas I., Romaní J. R., Mäkinen L., Matsaganis M., Arlotti M., Kopasz M., Szivós P., Ritakallio V. - M., Kazepov Y., Van den Bosch K., & Storms B. What Does It Mean To Live on the Poverty Threshold? Lessons From Reference Budgets

WP 17/06 De Wilde, M., & Goos P. The Implementation of Social Policy: A Factorial Survey Approach

WP 17/05 Collado, D., Cantillon B., Van den Bosch K., Goedemé T., & Vandelannoote D. The End of Cheap Talk About Poverty Reduction: The Cost of Closing the Poverty Gap While Maintaining Work Incentives

WP 17/04 Van Lancker, W., & Horemans J. Into the Great Wide Unknown: Untangling the Relationship between Childcare Service Use and In-Work Poverty

WP 17/03 Goedemé, T., Trindade L. Z., & Vandenbroucke F. A Pan-European Perspective on Low-Income Dynamics in the EU

WP 17/02 Vandelannoote, D., & Verbist G. The Impact of In-Work Benefits on Employment and Poverty

WP 17/01 Horemans, J. Atypical Employment and In-Work Poverty: A Different Story for Part-Timers and Temporary Workers?

WP 16/05 Parolin, Z. The Sum of Its Parts? Assessing Variation and Trends in Family Income Support Across the 48 Contiguous United States

WP 16/04 Decancq, K., & Michiels A. Measuring Successful Aging with Respect for What Matters to Older Persons

WP 16/03 Horemans, J. The part-time poverty gap across Europe: How institutions affect the way part-time and full-time workers avoid poverty differently

WP 16/02 Trindade, L. Z., & Goedemé T. Notes on updating the EU-SILC UDB sample design variables 2012-2014

WP 16/01 Cantillon, B., & Marchal S. Decent incomes for the poor: which role for Europe?

WP 15/05 Decancq, K. Measuring Multidimensional Inequality in the OECD Member Countries with a Distribution-Sensitive Better Life Index

WP 15/03 Horemans, J., Nolan B., & Marx I. Hanging in, but only just. Part-time employment and in-work poverty throughout the crisis

WP 15/02 Decoster, A., Perelman S., Vandelannoote D., Vanheukelom T., & Verbist G. A bird’s eye view on 20 years of tax-benefit reforms in Belgium

WP 15/01 Cantillon, B., Collado D., & Van Mechelen N. The end of decent social protection for the poor? The dynamics of low wages, minimum income packages and median household incomes

WP 14/05 Sebrechts, L. Education for children with special needs in the Flemish community of Belgium: side effects of the current educational integration system

WP 14/04 Kuypers, S. The East Asian welfare regime: reality or fiction

WP 14/03 Marx, I., Nolan B., & Olivera J. The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy in Rich Countries

WP 14/01 Van Lancker, W., & Van Mechelen N. Universalism under siege? Exploring the association between targeting, child benefits and child poverty across 26 countries

WP 13/05 Van Lancker, W., & Ghysels J. Great expectations, but how to achieve them? Explaining patterns of inequality in childcare use across 31 developed countries

WP 13/04 Cantillon, B., & Van Mechelen N. Poverty reduction and social security: Cracks in a policy paradigm

WP 13/03 Meeusen, L., & Nys A. Do labor force evolutions affect the work incapacity caseload?

WP 13/02 Goedemé, T. The EU-SILC sample design variables: critical review and recommendations

WP 13/01 Van Lancker, W. Putting the child-centred investment strategy to the test: Evidence for the EU27

WP 12/12 Ponnet, K., Wouters E., Goedemé T., & Mortelmans D. An exploration of family-based pathways through which parents’ financial stress is associated with problem behaviour of adolescents

WP 12/11 Sebrechts, L. Education for Children with Special Needs: A Comparative Study of Education Systems and Parental Guidance Services

WP 12/10 Pintelon, O. Welfare State Decommodification: Concepts, Operationalizations and Long-term Trends

WP 12/09 Vandenbroucke, F. The Active Welfare State Revisited

WP 12/08 Meeusen, L., & Nys A. Are new social risk expenditures crowding out the old?

WP 12/07 Goedemé, T. Less is More? 20 years of changing minimum income protection for old Europe’s elderly

WP 12/06 Corluy, V., & Vandenbroucke F. Individual Employment, Household Employment and Risk of Poverty in the EU. A Decomposition Analysis

WP 12/05 Vandenbroucke, F., Cantillon B., Van Mechelen N., Goedemé T., & Van Lancker A. The EU and Minimum Income Protection: Clarifying the Policy Conundrum

WP 12/04 Cantillon, B., Van Mechelen N., Pintelon O., & Van den Heede A. Household Work Intensity and the Adequacy of Social Protection in the EU

WP 12/03 Van Lancker, W., Ghysels J., & Cantillon B. An international comparison of the impact of child benefits on poverty outcomes for single mothers

WP 12/02 Ghysels, J., & Vercammen K. The beneficiaries of childcare expansion

WP 12/01 Sebrechts, L., & Breda J. Families of children with special needs in Flanders: their vulnerability within the citizenship paradigm

WP 11/10 Decancq, K., Van Ootegem L., & Verhofstadt E. What if we voted on the weights of a multidimensional well-being index? An illustration with Flemish data

WP 11/09 Cantillon, B., & Van Lancker W. Solidarity and reciprocity in the social investment state: what can be learned from the case of Flemish school allowances and truancy?

WP 11/08 Ghysels, J. The provision of informal childcare by European grandparents: constraints versus selective preferences

WP 11/07 Corluy, V., Marx I., & Verbist G. Employment chances and changes of immigrants in Belgium: the impact of citizenship

WP 11/06 Van Lancker, W., & Ghysels J. Who reaps the benefits? The social distribution of public childcare in Sweden and Flanders

WP 11/05 Van Mechelen, N., Marchal S., Goedemé T., Marx I., & Cantillon B. The CSB-Minimum Income Protection Indicators dataset (CSB-MIPI)

WP 11/04 Pintelon, O., Cantillon B., Van den Bosch K., & Whelan C. T. The Social Stratification of Social Risks

WP 11/03 Cantillon, B. The Paradox of the Social Investment State. Growth, Employment and Poverty in the Lisbon Era

WP 11/02 Van Lancker, W. It’s all about the money? Temporary employment, gender, poverty and the role of regulations from a broad European perspective

WP 11/01 Vandenbroucke, F., & Vleminckx K. Disappointing poverty trends: is the social investment state to blame? An exercise in soul-searching for policy-makers

WP 10/09 Goedemé, T. The standard error of estimates based on EU-SILC. An exploration through the Europe 2020 poverty indicators

WP 10/08 Ghysels, J., & Van Lancker W. The unequal benefits of family activation: an analysis of the social distribution of family policy among families with young children

WP 10/07 Cantillon, B. Disambiguating Lisbon. Growth, Employment and Social Inclusion in the Investment State

WP 10/06 Goedemé, T., & Rottiers S. Poverty in the enlarged European Union. A discussion about definitions and reference groups

WP 10/05 Cantillon, B., De Ridder A., Vanhaecht E., & Verbist G. (Un)desirable Effects of Output Funding for Flemish Universities

WP 10/04 Rottiers, S. The sociology of social recognition: competition in social recognition games

WP 10/03 Rottiers, S. Does income inequality make us sick? Whether, and (if so) how, income inequality affects personal health

WP 10/02 Van Lancker, W., & Ghysels J. Female employment, institutions and the role of reference groups: a multilevel analysis of 22 European countries

WP 10/01 Ghysels, J., Verbist G., & Vanhille J. Taxing Care : enhancing the childcare time in the dual earner era

09/01 Goedemé, T., & Van Lancker W. A Guaranteed Minimum Income for Europe’s Elderly. Options and Pitfalls in the Design of a Harmonised Basic Pension Scheme in the European Union

WP 08/02 Huysentruyt, M., & Lefevere E. Child Benefit Support and Method of Payment: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Belgium

WP 08/01 Verbist, G., & Lefebure S. The Inclusion of Non-cash Housing Advantages in the Income Concept. Estimates and Distribution Effects for Belgium