Evaluating the impact of social transfers on income poverty and material deprivation in European countries (provisional title)

该研究项目涉及评估社会转移对欧洲国家收入贫穷和物质匮乏的影响。尽管有大量关于福利国家与贫困之间的关系以及社会支出与减少贫困之间的联系的实证比较文献（Brady, 2005； Korpi和Palme, 1998; Kenworthy, 1999;Avraam, 2013），但关于社会转移对收入贫困和物质剥夺的影响的研究相对较少。大多数研究都集中在研究社会转移支付对收入贫困和不平等的影响，而社会转移支付对物质剥夺的影响直到最近才引起一些学者的注意（Notten和Guio 2019； 2021）。尽管许多研究表明，收入和物质剥夺是互补的，因为它们反映了相关但不同的物质福利概念（Nottenand Guio, 2016），它们解决了捕捉贫困和社会排斥多维方面的需求(Marlier等人，2007；Nolan和Whelan, 2010；Battiston et al., 2013)，迄今为止，关于社会转移对各国收入贫困和物质剥夺的影响的研究似乎非常有限，并且没有建立单一的正确方法来评估社会转移的影响。因此，目前关于社会转移支付影响的证据存在差距，特别是关于社会转移支付对贫困和物质剥夺的实际影响的比较证据。通过采用基于二次纵向数据分析的定量方法，本研究试图探索社会转移对贫困和剥夺影响的变化。报告重点关注欧盟27个成员国和英国，时间跨度为2015-2019年。本研究的主要目的是调查和评估社会转移对跨国收入贫困和物质剥夺的影响，并为欧盟27个成员国和英国提供比较定量的相关证据。本研究的结果有望通过提供关于社会转移对跨国收入贫困和物质剥夺的影响的定量证据，提高对社会转移影响的理解。在这方面，预计它将有助于丰富有关社会转移影响的文献，并为衡量其影响提供有用的见解，这可能为比较研究和深入的国家案例研究分析提供新的机会。总体而言，该项目有望提高我们的认识，更好地了解社会转移支付的影响及其在社会保护中的作用。同时，这项研究的结果将有助于设计更有效的社会政策。

The research project concerns the evaluation of the impact of socialtransfers on income poverty and material deprivation in European countries.Despite the large empirical comparative literature about the relationship betweenthe welfare state and poverty and the links between social expenditure and thereduction of poverty (Brady, 2005; Korpi and Palme, 1998; Kenworthy, 1999;Avraam, 2013), relatively little is known about the impact of social transfers onboth income poverty and material deprivation. Most research has focused onexamining the impact of social transfers on income poverty and inequality, whereasthe effect of social transfers on material deprivation has only recently attracted theattention of some scholars (Notten and Guio 2019; 2021). Although a number ofstudies have shown that income and material deprivation are complementarybecause they reflect related but different concepts of material well-being (Nottenand Guio, 2016) and they address the need to capture the multidimensional aspectsof poverty and social exclusion (Marlier et al., 2007; Nolan and Whelan, 2010;Battiston et al., 2013) , it appears that a very limited number of studies have beencarried out to date on the effect of social transfers on both income poverty andmaterial deprivation across countries and that there is no single correctmethodology established to evaluate the effect of social transfers. As such, thereare currently gaps in the evidence on the impact of social transfers, especially asregards comparative evidence on the actual effect of social transfers on bothincome poverty and material deprivation.By employing a quantitative approach based on secondary longitudinal dataanalysis, this study seeks to explore changes in the impact of social transfers onpoverty and deprivation. It focuses on the EU-27 member-states and the UK,covering the period 2015-2019. The main objective of this research is toinvestigate and assess the impact of social transfers on both income poverty andmaterial deprivation cross-nationally and to provide comparative quantitativerelevant evidence for the EU-27 member-states and the UK. The findings of thisresearch are expected to improve the understanding of the impact of socialtransfers by providing quantitative evidence regarding the effect of social transferson both income poverty and material deprivation cross-nationally. In this respect, itis expected to contribute to enriching literature concerning the impact of socialtransfers and to provide useful insights in measuring its impact that may constitutenew opportunities for comparative research and in-depth country case studyanalyses. Overall, the project is expected to improve our knowledge and provide abetter understanding of the impact of social transfers and their role in socialprotection. At the same time, the findings of this research will be useful fordesigning more effective social policies.