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We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …-born German children and non-existent for children from guestworker households. Income effects are also small relative to the …
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found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …
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Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the UNICEF study data base and present three composite indices that are multidimensional and...
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in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often …
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larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor children in the three regions live outside poor neighbourhoods. A … disproportionally large fraction of children with backgrounds from low- and middle-income countries live in poor neighbourhoods …
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data. While native children face yearly poverty risks of less than 10 percent in all three countries and for all years … investigated the increasing proportion of immigrant children with an origin in middle and low income countries have poverty risks … that varies from 38 and up to as much as 58 percent. At the end of the observation period one third of the poor children in …
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This paper analyses the duration of child poverty in Germany. In our sample, we observe the entire income history from … for the entire population of children, whether they become poor at least once or not. Using duration models, we allow …
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Die Arbeitsgruppe Beschäftigung der von NRW-Ministerpräsident Jürgen Rüttgers eingesetzten "Zukunftskommission" hat umfassende Empfehlungen für die künftige Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Nordrhein-Westfalen vorgelegt. Das Papier der von IZA-Direktor Klaus F. Zimmermann geleiteten...
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measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children … $2,100, between 1993 and 1997. Using a panel of roughly 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National … math and reading test scores by 6% of a standard deviation in the short-run. Test gains are larger for children from …
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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
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