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The determinants of university participation in Canada (1977 - 2003)
Christofides, Louis N.; Hoy, Michael; Yang, Ling - 2008
propensity of children from Canadian families, evident in annual surveys spanning two and a half decades, to attend university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269326
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The impact of tuition fees and support on university participation in the UK
Dearden, Lorraine; Fitzsimons, Emla; Wyness, Gill - 2011
Understanding how policy can affect university participation is important for understanding how governments can promote human capital accumulation. In this paper, we estimate the separate impacts of tuition fees and maintenance grants on the decision to enter university in the UK. We use Labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331032
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267482
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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2003
Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find …. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271751
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The impact of a primary school reform on educational stratification : a Norwegian study of neighbour and school mate correlations
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2003
School quality is hard to define and measure. It is influenced by not only school expenditures, but also characteristics that are hard to measure like norms and peer effects among teachers and pupils. Furthermore, family background and community characteristics are important in explaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271752
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Índice de vulnerabilidade das famílias (2000-2010): Resultados
Furtado, Bernardo Alves - 2013
The objective of this paper is to make available information - precisely and spatially detailed - about families … families across six different dimensions, detailed for the country, states, municipalities and intraurban detail. Results … indicate that Brazilian families' vulnerability reduced by nearly 20% in the period on average. This behavior, however, is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330876
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Two for the price of one? The contribution to development of the new female elites
Wolf, Alison - 2010
determined. Finally, the paper underlines the way in which these features of business and politics strengthen elite families in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280222
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Families, Taxes and the Welfare System
Simpson, Nicole B. - 2013
In this paper, I will describe in detail both the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit in the U.S., including their origins, their structure, and the effects they have on the labor market and family formation. I will then discuss the macroeconomic implications of U.S. welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319533
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Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980 - 2016
Chinyoka, Isaac - 2017
Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688572
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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269448