better at graduating more-prepared students while other institutions are better at graduating less-prepared students and that … 209 led to a more efficient sorting of minority students, explaining 18% of the graduation rate increase in our preferred … specification. Further, there appears to have been behavioral responses to Prop 209, by universities and/or students, that explain …

equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have … unconditional quantile partial effects of children along UK and US men's earnings distributions. In the 1970s, most UK and US … fathers enjoyed a modest premium regardless of their relative earnings, which decreased as number of children increased. This …

definition. Using Italian, Canadian and US data provided by Luxembourg Income Study, some different formulations of the Mincer …

In this article we examine the change in the mix of income and benefits that older adults receive as they age, with a … focus on older women. Our study is a crossnational comparison of five OECD countries using the Luxemburg Income Study … database. We investigate the change of private income and social benefits following synthetic cohorts for two decades. Our …

This paper examines whether retirement-income systems allow older individuals to enjoy socially acceptable income … employ the Luxembourg Income Study to compare Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States. This study … retirement-income systems of Canada, France, Germany, and the United States, however, tend to be older than age 75. Some experts …

its first part, it asks whether female-headed households can secure a living income without recourse to either the state … or the income of a male partner. It then steps inside the private sphere, for the purpose of investigating gender …

This paper uses micro-census income data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to measure the current and future … between income obtained from households' own saving and labor earnings, on the one hand, and the part financed with unfunded … transfers, on the other. The burden of unfunded transfers is defined as the tax on factor income that is needed to pay for such …