study is child income based on income of parents. Inequality in child income 1990, 1996 and 2002 is studied by decomposing …This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three …-periods 1990-1996 and 1996-2002. For example, while in the Stockholm region 7 percent of inequality in child income in 1990 was due …

This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …

admission criteria for students; and establishment of a strong accreditation board to ensure qualified midwives were trained by …

This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the … association between well-being and neighbors' income follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in the size of the area. We find a … negative relationship between well-being and neighbors' income in the county of residence, but the opposite at the ZIP code …

indirect path, parents and peers also influence educational outcomes directly. Policy measures that operate on parental …