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

该研究项目涉及欧洲国家社会转移对收入贫困和物质匮乏的影响的评估。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贫困减少之间的联系的经验比较文献(Brady，2005；Korpi and Palme，1998；Kenworth，1999；Avraam，2013)，但对社会转移对收入贫困和物质匮乏的影响知之甚少。大多数研究集中于考察社会转移对收入贫困和不平等的影响，而社会转移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)。尽管一些研究表明，收入和物质剥夺是相辅相成的，因为它们反映了相关但不同的物质幸福概念(Nottenand Guio，2016)，而且它们涉及到需要涵盖贫困和社会排斥的多个方面(Marlier等人，2007年；Nolan和Whelan等人，2010年；Battiston等人，2013年)，但迄今为止关于社会转移对各国收入贫困和物质匮乏的影响的研究似乎非常有限，而且没有建立单一的正确方法来评估社会转移的影响。因此，目前关于社会转移的影响的证据存在差距，特别是关于社会转移对贫困和物质匮乏的实际影响的比较证据。本研究采用基于二次纵向数据分析的量化方法，试图探索社会转移对贫困和剥夺的影响的变化。它的重点是欧盟27个成员国和英国，涵盖2015-2019年期间。这项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匮乏的影响，并为欧盟27个成员国和英国提供比较量化的相关证据。这项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匮乏的影响的量化证据，来提高对社会转移影响的理解。在这方面，预期将有助于丰富有关社会转移的影响的文献，并在衡量其影响方面提供有益的见解，这可能构成比较研究和深入国别案例分析的新机会。总体而言，该项目预计将提高我们的知识，并更好地了解社会转移的影响及其在社会保护中的作用。同时，这项研究的发现将有助于制定更有效的社会政策。

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.