In this paper we explore the association between family income and children’s cognitive ability (IQ and school … characteristics and home environments of low income children in accounting for different outcomes. Using rich cohort data from the UK … psychological functioning. We also find some some aspects of the environment of higher income households hinder child development …

There is a growing literature that shows that higher family income is associatedwith better health for children …. Wealthier parents may have more advantagedchildren because they have more income to buy health care or because parentalwealth is … associated with beneficial behaviours or because parental health isassociated with both income and children’s health. The policy …

This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on thewell-being of children in low-income … to divergence across the two countries. In the UK, low-income familiesaffected by the reforms are spending more money on …

revenues. However, specific tax rates (which at that time were the norm) implied that the state’s real income would fall in …

. This is modified by using tax data to allocate non-wage income across regions. The results suggest that the coefficient of …

We introduce a model of redistributive income taxation and public expenditure. Thisjoint treatment permits analyzing … that partisanconfrontation essentially falls on expenditure policies rather than on income taxation.We examine the case in … which the expenditure policy (or the size of government) ischosen by majority voting and income taxation is consistently …

We analytically and quantitatively examine a prominent justification forcapital income taxation: goods preferred by … of income and consumption and find that, when ability ispositively related to a preference for a good, optimal marginal … commoditytaxes on this good may be regressive: i.e., declining with income. We derivean analytical expression for optimal commodity …