Dynamic Trade, Education, and Intergenerational Inequality

Higher education, career opportunities, and intergenerational inequality

The UK government has expressed a desire to increase social mobility, with policies to help achieve this aim focused on reducing inequalities in educational attainment. This paper draws together established and new information about the contribution that higher education can make to social mobility using a life-course approach, considering differences by family background in terms of university...

Intergenerational Inequality

People differ markedly in their views concerning the appropriate role of government in reducing economic inequality through progressive taxation, transfers to the less well off and similar programs. While differing values and self-interest explain part of these differences in support for or opposition to redistribution, by far the most important fault line concerns contested factual beliefs abo...

Intergenerational Inequality: Evidence from Spain

This paper documents the evolution of the inequalities between generations in Spain, analyzing the trends of income and net worth during the last decade for households headed by adults of different age cohorts. Using data from the Spanish Survey of Household Finance (EFF) we document a deterioration of the situation of the young in terms of mean and median income and net worth in 2011 compared ...

Intergenerational transmission of income inequality :

Intergenerational transmission of income inequality: What do we know? 3 Poverty and parenting young children The role of parenting in the intergenerational transmission of poverty 6 Does increased income reduce child maltreatment? 9 Promoting school readiness through parental engagement 11 Poverty and K-12 schooling K-12 programs to reduce the intergenerational transmission of poverty 13 Intera...

Trade , Poverty and Inequality