Is the Well-being of Children Converging in the European Union?
考察欧盟成员国儿童福祉指标（如贫困、失业、死亡率、教育等）在过去二十年是否趋同，对关注欧盟社会政策与儿童发展的读者有参考价值。
Recent discussion of convergence in the European Union has focused on macroeconomic indicators, in line with requirements for participation in the single currency. But it is reduction of disparities in living standards that is an ultimate goal of European integration – the greater 'economic and social cohesion' emphasised by the Treaty on Union. <br/>We assemble evidence on whether the well-being of children in Member States has been converging over the last two decades, taking a variety of indicators: poverty, household worklessness, youth unemployment, child mortality, youth suicide, educational enrolment, teenage fertility, and self-reported 'life satisfaction'.