The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in … secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income.We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to …

experiences. As children are vulnerable to early life experi- ences, whether they have a good or bad start has long … of longitudinal data following children for a long time. More recently, studies focusing on developing countries are … beginning to emerge with the maturity of some longitudinal datasets tracking children, even if it remains much to discover in …

Income and wealth are important determinants of individual economic well-being because they are a fundamental resource … for consumption. Due to increasing inequality the distribution of income and wealth has moved more and more into the focus … multidimensional polarization of both income and wealth. Individual well-being is modeled by a well-being function directly affected by …

distribution of earnings and for the distribution of household income per capita. A large share of the poverty reducing effect of …

long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is examined. The rich countries differ … significantly in the extent to which parental economic status is related to the labour market success of children in adulthood. The …

income. Likewise, discussion of policy initiatives ranges across a number of areas of government activity. …

The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children … groups, and in particular to what degree do cash transfer and tax systems benefit children relative to older groups? Second …, what fractions of the needs of children are supported by elements of the tax and transfer systems directed explicitly to …

. This involves a method for embodying the ideal of children having priority on social resources into a particular set of …

Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover … the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty …