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As school after school shuts down in the face of the Covid-19 crisis (in now more than 140 countries), online learning opportunities have been elevated from a bonus extracurricular facility to a critical lifeline for education.
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childcare costs when a parent with young children takes up full-time employment and uses full-time centre-based childcare. This …
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This indicator measures the proportion of previous in-work household income maintained after 2, 6, 12, 24 and 60 months … of unemployment. Calculations refer to a single person without children whose previous in-work earnings were 67% of the …
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result, online teaching and learning have been used by teachers and students on an unprecedented scale. Since lockdowns … online learning. This policy brief examines the role of students’ attitudes towards learning in maximising the potential of … online schooling when regular face-to-face instruction cannot take place. Since parents and teachers play a fundamental role …
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The COVID-19 pandemic is harming health, social and material well-being of children worldwide, with the poorest … children, including homeless children and children in detention, hit hardest. School closures, social distancing and … confinement increase the risk of poor nutrition among children, their exposure to domestic violence, increase their anxiety and …
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The policy brief details the critical challenges for the well-being of children in the context of the COVID-19 crisis … and lays out the foundations of a Framework for Achieving the Well-Being of Children in the post-COVID-19 Decade to ensure … that children are put at the centre of efforts to build back better. The Framework proposes five pillars of action, which …
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current pandemic suggest that the COVID‑19 crisis is likely to have a disproportionate impact on immigrants and their children …. This policy brief provides first evidence on how the pandemic has affected immigrants and their children in terms of health …
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This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...
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This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …
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This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which each...
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