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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen; Schluter, Christian - 2002
We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...
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The dynamics of child poverty : Britain and Germany compared
Jenkins, Stephen; Schluter, Christian; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000 - Revised November 2000
We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British … Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty … persistence is greater, and poverty exit rates in particular are lower. In both countries poverty is particularly persistent among …
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