for instance the coefficient of in model in table a means that the difference of loppt in the mip indicator say between belgium and the czech republic in is associated with greater odds of a child being poor in all else being equal using the coefficients from the model figure a in the annex shows a steady decrease in the predicted probability of a child being poor across the range of values of the mip indicator thus children in countries with more generous minimum income protection schemes are less likely to be poor during the crisis but the generosity of social assistance could be picking up the effect of the overall size of the welfare state when social spending is entered in the model the mip effect becomes smaller and less precisely estimated remaining significant only in and model table a