treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …

is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience liquidity …

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …

causal effect of having children on female labor supply using IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF …

Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover … the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty …

likely that children who migrate face different challenges in attaining high school credentials depending upon their age at … immigration. This paper examines the education outcomes of a cohort of immigrants who arrived in Canada as children. The 2006 … Census is used and it is found that there is in fact a distinct change in the chances that children will hold a high …

. This involves a method for embodying the ideal of children having priority on social resources into a particular set of …

the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs … significantly, disadvantaged American children living in much more challenging circumstances, and the role of public policy not as …

The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children … groups, and in particular to what degree do cash transfer and tax systems benefit children relative to older groups? Second …, what fractions of the needs of children are supported by elements of the tax and transfer systems directed explicitly to …

We analyze the intergenerational income mobility of Canadians born to immigrants using the 2001 Census. A detailed … portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of …