Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1332/175982721x16702576209751
Donald Hirsch
"An untested premise: would voters really support redistribution through UBI which left many of them worse off? A reply to ‘Changing circumstances and new basic premises: turning the affordability and feasibility relationship on its head’ by Howard Robert Reed et al1" published on Feb 2023 by Policy Press.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1332/175982721x16645485533332
Mario Sainz, Juan Diego García-Castro, Gloria Jiménez-Moya, Roberto M. Lobato
The attributional process, defined as the process of inferring the causes of the events that surround individuals in their daily lives, can potentially shape the understanding of poverty and wealth. For instance, it might influence how people behave, what they expect from poor and wealthy groups in their society, and how they judge them. However, the existing measures that capture these attributional phenomena have several limitations. Some attributional factors lack empirical support, or some implemented items lack relevance in contemporary society. Therefore, the present study is aimed to deepen the understanding of the attributional process by reviewing the factor structure of the poverty (Cozzarelli et al, 2001) and wealth attribution scales (Bullock et al, 2003), as well as adapting and verifying the validity of these scales among the Mexican population. To do so, we revised the factor structure of the poverty and wealth attribution scales to create a unified scale. We back-translated the original items, conducted exploratory and confirmatory analyses, restructured the scale’s factors, and related them with other covariates. Our results indicate that these scales uniquely differentiate between internal and external attributions, demonstrating that the new factor structure is better for measuring attributional processes regarding the perceived causes of poverty and wealth than those used in previous research.
归因过程被定义为推断个人日常生活中发生的事件的原因的过程，它可能会影响人们对贫穷和财富的理解。例如，它可能会影响人们的行为方式，他们对社会中穷人和富人群体的期望，以及他们如何判断他们。然而，捕捉这些归因现象的现有措施有一些局限性。一些归因因素缺乏实证支持，或者一些实施项目缺乏当代社会的相关性。因此，本研究旨在通过回顾贫困(Cozzarelli et al, 2001)和财富归因量表(Bullock et al, 2003)的因素结构，以及在墨西哥人口中调整和验证这些量表的有效性，加深对归因过程的理解。为此，我们修改了贫困和财富归因量表的因素结构，创建了一个统一的量表。我们对原始条目进行了反向翻译，进行了探索性和验证性分析，重组了量表的因素，并将它们与其他协变量联系起来。我们的研究结果表明，这些量表独特地区分了内部归因和外部归因，表明新的因素结构比以前的研究更能衡量关于贫困和财富的感知原因的归因过程。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1332/175982721x16661952940144
Kaitlin Schwan, N. Nichols, Jayne A. Malenfant
Advocacy coalitions have played an increasingly critical role in evidence-based policy development. Despite this, little is known about how such coalitions leverage research to influence policy. Addressing this gap, this qualitative study explores how a multi-sectoral advocacy coalition seeks to shape Canadian food security policy through ‘solutions-focused advocacy’. We explore four of the coalition’s strategies: (1) shaping policymakers’ thinking and priorities while responding to governments’ needs; (2) utilising research to help governments achieve political ‘wins’ while advancing the cause; (3) using research to broker relationships between ‘community’, government, and the coalition; and (4) mobilising research to ‘bring the sector along’.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.1332/175982721x16684429255213
P. Gallo, Albert Julià, Marga Marí-Klose, Julia Serra, J. Bellavista, Sandra Escapa
Menstrual poverty has become a global issue, affecting women who do not have access to the menstrual products they need. Most of the related literature is based on low- and middle-income countries’ facts and experiences. Using the 2020 Youth Survey in Barcelona, this cross-sectional study provides novel data on the prevalence and the factors associated with menstrual poverty in an urban context (Barcelona) in a high-income country (Spain) with a randomly selected representative sample of 700 young women aged 15 to 34. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression models were used in the analysis. Results show that 15.3 per cent of young women in Barcelona reported facing financial barriers to accessing menstrual products. Further, those young women with a high level of material deprivation (OR=4.42; CI=2.14–9.16) have a greater probability of suffering from menstrual poverty, whereas those living independently from their parents (OR=0.50; CI=0.28–0.90) and women with a non-EU origin (Latin-Americans: OR=0.54; CI=0.31–0.93; Others: OR=0.06; CI=0.01–0.46) have a lower probability of reporting menstrual poverty. Our findings advocate that the measurement of poverty should consider individual aspects and needs, and not only the household income level as the reference. Further, we would encourage rethinking poverty measurement with a gender perspective, as well as identifying how deprivations overlap to aggravate the experience of poverty.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.1332/175982721x16702576055509
D. Hirsch
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Pub Date : 2023-01-09DOI: 10.1332/175982721x16704285585313
J. Mack, Marco Pomati
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Pub Date : 2023-01-09DOI: 10.1332/175982722x16703911505586
H. Reed, M. Johnson, S. Lansley, E. Johnson, Graham Stark, K. Pickett
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Pub Date : 2023-01-06DOI: 10.1332/175982721x16702368352393
H. Reed, M. Johnson, S. Lansley, E. Johnson, Graham Stark, K. Pickett
Critics of Universal Basic Income (UBI) have claimed that it would be either unaffordable or inadequate. This discussion paper tests this claim by examining the distributional impacts of three UBI schemes broadly designed to provide pathways to attainment of the Minimum Income Standard (MIS). We use microsimulation of data from the Family Resources Survey to outline the static distributional impacts and costs of the schemes. Our key finding is that even the fiscally neutral starter scheme would reduce child poverty to the lowest level achieved since 1961 and achieve more than the anti-poverty interventions of the New Labour Governments from 2000. The more generous schemes would make further inroads into the UK’s high levels of poverty and inequality, but at greater cost. We conclude by assessing fiscal strategies to reduce the up-front deficit of higher schemes, providing a more positive assessment of affordability and impact than critics have assumed.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1332/175982721x16696392062422
C. McPherson
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, food insecurity was rising steadily and attracting growing concern across the UK. Young people are disproportionately more exposed to food insecurity because of their higher risks of poverty, destitution and homelessness, and because of discriminations in the labour market and social security system. Despite this, very little is known about youth food insecurity in the UK, where the assumption that young people can rely on parental support prevails. This article draws on qualitative interviews with 13 young people, aged 18–26, conducted during the height of nationwide lockdowns in Edinburgh and London in 2020. By engaging with young people from a range of circumstances, this article provides important insights into experiences of youth food insecurity. It finds that while youth food insecurity stems from the familiar trigger of low income, young people are not only more exposed to this risk, but also encounter additional risks linked to being young, including leaving home for the first time. Similarly, this article illustrates that while people of all ages generally prefer to manage their food insecurity independently due to the stigma attached to food insecurity, notions of independence seem particularly important to the young people and their narratives of emerging adulthood in this study, with implications for their (dis)engagement with support. The findings challenge ingrained policy assumptions about young people, and suggest a need for significant policy activity around youth food insecurity, which has been troublingly overlooked in the UK.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.1332/175982721x16691268561593
J. Mack, Marco Pomati
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