Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …

the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g., education, defense, infrastructure). The dominant assumption in the …, we find that public education spending goes disproportionately to the bottom half of the income distribution. A lump …-sum allocation provides a good approximation. Moving beyond the cross-section, we find that public education expenditure is …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …

series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in … productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a … lifetime tax reform linking annual taxes to previous employment could improve the system's insurance capabilities, albeit at …

We analyze the distributive justice of the combined burden of taxes, social security contributions and public transfers …