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Shaping inequality and intergenerational persistence of poverty: Free college or better schools
Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander; Popova, Irina - 2024
disciplined by US household survey data on income, wealth, education and time use. Studying the transitions induced by unexpected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528313
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Income risk inequality: Evidence from Spanish administrative records
Arellano, Manuel; Bonhomme, Stéphane; De Vera, Micole; … - In: Quantitative Economics 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1747-1801
In this paper, we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … inversely related to income and age, and income risk inequality increases markedly in the recession. These findings are robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536874
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The long-term distributional and welfare effects of Covid-19 school closures
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander - 2020
Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental characteristics. In the model, public investment through schooling is combined with parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287278
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The long-term distributional and welfare effects of Covid-19 school closures
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander - 2020
Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental characteristics. In the model, public investment through schooling is combined with parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288090
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The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax-benefit policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador
Jara, H. Xavier; Montesdeoca, Lourdes; Tasseva, Iva - 2021
dramatic increase in income poverty and inequality between December 2019 and June 2020. The poverty rate, measured with the … cent. Inequality measured by the Gini coefficient increases substantially from 0.461 to 0.592. On average, household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424168
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Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks in Real-Time: A Novel Method Applied to the Covid-19 Crisis in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin; … - 2020
The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425654
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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, … - 2022
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177639
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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieden, Johannes - 2022
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177756
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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - 2022
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197561
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The fiscal and welfare effects of policy responses to the Covid-19 school closures
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Kurmann, André; … - 2021
Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013359365