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Skills, Parental Sorting, and Child Inequality

Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik; Klaauw, Bas; Ziegler, Lennart - 2022

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …

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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility

Heckman, James J. - 2014

This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...

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Wealth Distribution within Couples

Grabka, Markus - 2013

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...

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Public Education for the Children Left Behind

Camacho, Carmen - 2010

This paper examines the role of public education in the context of parental migration, and it studies the effects of an expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy may exacerbate income inequality in the long run...

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The Timing of Parental Income and Child Outcomes : The Role of Permanent and Transitory Shocks

Tominey, Emma - 2010

, then the effect of shocks at age 1-16 is estimated for 600,000 Norwegian children. The effect of permanent shocks declines …

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Child Health and the Income Gradient : Evidence from China

Chen, Yi - 2010

Though the positive income gradient of child health is well documented in developed countries, evidence from developing countries is rare. Few studies attempt to identify a causal link between family income and child health. Utilizing unique longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition...

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Making Work Pay : Increasing Labour Supply of Secondary Earners in Low Income Families with Children

Kurowska, Anna - 2015

implications of a diverse set of possible reforms to the main elements of tax and benefit support of families with children. We set …

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Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development

Del Boca, Daniela - 2014

In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of …

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Is There an Income Gradient in Child Health? It Depends Whom You Ask

Johnston, David W. - 2010

child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently …

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Parental Education, Grade Attainment and Earnings Expectations Among University Students

Delaney, Liam - 2011

While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address this deficit by analysing the relationship between...

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