In many countries, large families with three or more children have high income poverty rates. In this article, we aim to understand why this is the case by examining the relevance of family structure, socio‐economic characteristics, and welfare state transfers targeted at this family form. For our analyses, we use cross‐sectional data from three waves (2017–2019) of the Austrian European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions dataset. Our results, based on descriptive statistics, logistic regressions, and decomposition analyses, confirm the higher poverty risk of large families compared with smaller families. However, when differentiating between poor and non‐poor families, it is not the family type that seems to be relevant in explaining the poverty risk, but rather the parental work intensity, the age of the youngest child, the place of residence, being a single‐parent household, and the parental migration background. Moreover, cash transfers from the welfare state, in particular family benefits, contribute to reducing poverty for a significant number of large families. Policy makers are therefore well advised to either further increase the cash transfers targeted at large families, and/or to improve the employability and ultimately the work intensity of parents in large families in order to reduce their income poverty risk.

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奥地利的大家庭和贫困：如何解释他们经历收入贫困的不成比例的风险？

在许多国家，拥有三个或更多孩子的大家庭收入贫困率很高。在本文中，我们旨在通过研究家庭结构、社会经济特征以及针对这种家庭形式的福利国家转移的相关性来理解为什么会出现这种情况。在我们的分析中，我们使用奥地利欧盟收入和生活条件统计数据集的三波（2017-2019）横截面数据。我们的结果基于描述性统计、逻辑回归和分解分析，证实大家庭的贫困风险高于小家庭。然而，在区分贫困家庭和非贫困家庭时，与解释贫困风险相关的似乎不是家庭类型，而是父母的工作强度、最小孩子的年龄、居住地等因素。单亲家庭、父母外出务工背景。此外，福利国家的现金转移，特别是家庭福利，有助于减少大量大家庭的贫困。因此，政策制定者最好要么进一步增加针对大家庭的现金转移支付，和/或提高大家庭父母的就业能力并最终提高他们的工作强度，以降低他们的收入贫困风险。