Generous maternity leave, affordable daycare, extensive social safety nets, excellent universal health care, and high … investments in children contribute to a levelled playing field and promote social mobility. However, gaps in learning outcomes … between children of rich and poor parents remain as high in Nordic countries as elsewhere in Europe. One explanation for this …

roles of health and education. We provide empirical evidence for Germany. …Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper …

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … multidimensional poverty indices. …

benefits also reduce take-up of paid leave by mothers, lower the chances of having further children, and have no impact on …

benefits also reduce take-up of paid leave by mothers, lower the chances of having further children, and have no impact on …

of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …-assessed health (SAH) are employed. Measures of medical care usage like doctor visits result in substantially lower concentration …

considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in …Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper … children. Mobility between different affluence counts between 2002 and 2007 is rather low and existing changes are mostly …

German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to …

considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in …Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper … children. Mobility between different affluence counts between 2002 and 2007 is rather low and existing changes are mostly …

. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute … movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health …