This thesis is concerned with a possible answer to the question of why we should care about inequality: children. A child can no less choose its parents than it can choose its gender or ethnicity. One cannot fault a child for their choice of school, lack of resources or absence of role models....

The three largest items on the list of public expenditures in Denmark (and many other countries)are retirement, health, and education. These are also the topics ofi nterest in the three Chapters of this dissertation. While the chapters are quite different from each other, they share three...