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This paper examines trends in the distribution of household wealth in Great Britain from 1995 to 2005 using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The data show that wealth is very unevenly distributed and reveal a widening absolute gap over the period between wealthier households and those...
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provided through cash transfers to children and pensioners, and increased the value of their cash transfers relative to the … level Labour inherited, while benefits for those without children fell further below the poverty line. - By the end of the … without children increased. - The risks of poverty converged between children, their parents, pensioners, and other working …
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experiencing key life events, such as partnership formation, having children, or retirement; this in turn affects their probability …
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This paper solves an empirically parameterised model of life-cycle consumption which extends the precautionary savings models of Carroll (1997), and Deaton (1991), to allow for uncollaterized borrowing and default. In case households choose to default: (i) their access to credit markets is...
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We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in the 1970 BCS cohort and also to explore the...
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The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively … little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. Among other things, I … exclusion of children. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast to Europe it …
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) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …
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health of their children. Overall 47 studies were identified. There was considerable variability in their quality, with a …
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We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …
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Children who have been sexually abused may suffer from emotional and behavioural difficulties. Recent research found …
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