This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive … achievement, being ranked highly during primary school has large effects on secondary school achievement, with the impact of rank …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying … income-related child health inequality is family income itself, although other factors, such as maternal education, also play …

by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

We examine the determinants of income mobility and inequality in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply and … relationship between mobility and inequality is complex. For example, a reduction in the interest rate and an increase in the wage … rate reduce capital income inequality and allow upward mobility of the ability-rich. However, the increase in the labor …

save dynastically and middle income households who save for retirement. We find that inequality is reduced the higher the … efficiency and inequality: middle income households’ consumption is maximal at a higher capital tax rate than high income …

tracking increases educational inequality. While less clear, there is also a tendency for early tracking to reduce mean …