-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in … productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …

life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation … the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g., education, defense, infrastructure). The dominant assumption in the …, we find that public education spending goes disproportionately to the bottom half of the income distribution. A lump …

policies on the intergenerational persistence of education in 17 Latin American countries. First, we retrieve detailed … information on school lockdowns and on the policies enacted to support education from home in each country. Then, we use these …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …

Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …

We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a …

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality …