Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getulio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city's economy, and consequently its citizen's lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest...

Diese Arbeit untersucht die Rolle der Familie als materielles Unterstützungssystem anhand von Erbschaften und Schenkungen, die Eltern und Großeltern an ihre Kinder bzw. Enkel vergeben. Nach der Diskussion ökonomischer und soziologischer Literatur zum intergenerationalen Transfergeschehen wird...

Longer term exposure to high poverty neighbourhoods can affect individual socio-economic outcomes later in life. Previous research has shown strong path dependence in individual neighbourhood histories. A growing literature shows that the neighbourhood histories of people is linked to the...