The Welfare State and Relative Poverty in Rich Western Democracies, 1967-1997

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Counteracting material deprivation: The role of social assistance in Europe (2012, background): “An increasing number of comparative studies show that welfare states have important equalizing effects on the dispersion of income (Bäckman, 2009; Bäckman and Ferrarini, 2010; Brady, 2005; Cantillon, 1997; Kenworthy, 1999; Korpi and Palme, 1998; Smeeding et al., 2001).”
Cross-national Differences in Educational Achievement Inequality (2011, background): “For example, social insurance and risk management institutions are crucial for redistributing outcomes (Korpi and Palme 1998), reducing poverty (Brady 2005), and reducing the variability in family background, all of which affects students’ opportunities to learn (Valenzuela, Tironi Barrios, and…”
Putting Poverty in Political Context: A Multi-Level Analysis of Adult Poverty across 18 Affluent Democracies (2009, methodology): “Recently, scholars have incorporated cross-national and historical variation and demonstrate a robust negative effect of welfare state generosity on poverty (Brady 2005; Brady and Kall 2008; Moller et al. 2003).”