from attending high-quality schools, thus allowing families with high initial wealth to access better education at a lower … cost. This paper provides a new perspective on the results of education equalization programs in terms of educational and …

Welfare caseloads in North America halved following reforms in the 1990s and 2000s. We study how this shift affected … families by linking Canadian welfare records to tax returns, medical spending, educational attainment, and crime data. We find …, consistent with the transition to employment elevating time pressure and stress. We find no effect on teenagers' education and …

applied in economics using twins or adoptees. Exploiting an education reform differentially affecting parents, we find no …

disparities in income, employment, homeownership, education, access to credit, and retirement savings - all factors that …, each factor, along with a history of racism and discrimination has contributed to the extreme wealth inequality in America …

recently and thus cannot explain the rising welfare receipt. Following theoretical predictions, the probability that a rational …

recently and thus cannot explain the rising welfare receipt. Following theoretical predictions, the probability that a rational …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …