To design an optimal education policy, it is essential to account for the fertility differential between the poor and … the rich because it affects the human capital investment through the child quantity-quality tradeoff of children. We … develop a dynamic general equilibrium in which parents choose the quantity of children, transfer a preschool ability to their …

students with a critical understanding of poverty and social exclusion in relation to wealth, rather than as separate from it … book is split into four main sections exploring key concepts and issues; `people and place` (poverty and wealth across … links between wealth and poverty. It includes an edited collection of chapters specially written by a distinguished panel of …

for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare …

Fertility rates significantly fell over the last decades in Latin America. In order to assess the extent to which these … changes contributed to the observed reduction in income poverty and inequality we apply microeconometric decompositions to … microdata from national household surveys from seven Latin American countries. We find that changes in fertility rates were …