This publication discusses intergenerational family relationships in the context of ageing societies. It evolved in the framework of the Multilinks research project and is based on data from the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP). The GGP is a system of national Generations and Gender...

Der souveräne Bildungsstaat garantiert Bildung als Bürgerrecht und als attraktive persönliche Lebenschance. Er nutzt Bildung zur Förderung von Wirtschaftswachstum und Wohlstand in einer Welt mit internationalem Wettbewerb auf immer mehr Gebieten und als Mittel sozialer und kultureller...

This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which each...

We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...

Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justified and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...