Higher child mortality reduces the willingness of parents to invest in children's education and increases their desired level of fertility. In this context, economic inequality is not only decisive for human capital investments and the emergence of differential fertility, but also for agents'...

Eine wesentliche Erkenntnis der Ungleichheitsforschung bezieht sich darauf, dass bei der Analyse sozialer Ungleichheit nicht das einzelne Individuum, sondern auch der Haushalt und die Familie in den Blick genommen werden müssen. Familien sind mächtige Instanzen lebenslanger intergenerationaler...

Using an epidemiological approach, we study the cultural influence on fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants based on a 1% sample of the German population. We proxy for culture in the country of origin using total fertility rates from the year of migration, survey...

Research on Economic Inequality, volume 26, primarily contains papers presented at the 8th Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. The papers cover such topics as the effect of inheritance taxation on the "pre-distribution" of income, and tax progressivity under...