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children with lower initial family incomes vs. children with higher initial family incomes. However, offsetting this effect …, our findings also suggest that as children grow up, changes in family income ranking over time are related to children …
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Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there is strong empirical evidence that equivalence scales in fact are income dependent. This paper explores the consistency of results derived from income independent and income...
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We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
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of father’s income on child income. We find a strong association between the incomes of fathers and children. The causal …
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In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental … sizeable for families with children. …
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, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …
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How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes …
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This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill … accumulation, permanently lowering children's skill levels. To the extent that making up for cognitive skill losses during …
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Transferring public benefits to people in no need of them appears to be a waste of public money. Thus, there seems to be support for a move away from universal child benefits and towards means testing. This study presents a critique of this overly-simplistic view and proposes a very simple...
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Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends...
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