This paper explores the links between school, family and areabackground influences during adolescence and later adult economicoutcomes. The empirical analysis is based on data covering the period1979 to 1996, drawn from the 1979 US National Longitudinal Survey ofYouth. For a sample of...

This report summarises presentations and discussion at a workshop on ‘Persistent Poverty and Lifetime Inequality’ organisedby HM Treasury and chaired by John Hills, Director of the ESRC Resarch Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at theLondon School of Economics. It took place on 17 and...