The present paper investigates a standard model of endogenous fertility when child survival to adulthood is uncertain. In this framework, I first show that facing the risk their children die before reaching adulthood, parents don’t always formulate a precautionary demand for children. Indeed, there exists a non-empty set of utility functions for which parents undershoot their number of children...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine whether the magnitude of income-related health inequalities varies between welfare regimes (Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, Bismarckian, Southern and Eastern). Specifically, it examined whether the Scandinavian welfare state regime has smaller income-based health inequalities than the other welfare state regimes. METHODS The first (2002) and s...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this paper was to investigate the association between health, social position, social participation and the welfare state. Extending recent research on the social consequences of poor health, we asked whether and how welfare generosity is related to the risk of social exclusion associated with combinations of poor health, low education and economic inactivity. METHODS ...

Differences in Wage Growth by Education Level: Do Less-Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience? This paper revisits the old question of whether wage growth differs by education level. Do more educated workers invest more than less educated workers in firm specific, sector specific or general human capital? Do they gain more from improved job match? The paper makes both a methodological ...

The article aims to discuss the school's education for citizenship and democracy in light of the economic crisis in the early 1990s and the subsequent depletion of the Swedish welfare state. Increased economic inequality, exclusion and marginalization of the school as well as in society in general raise the question about the school equivalency. The discussion sets out from a theoretical approa...

The study of government expenditure is essential for economists and policymakers. This aims to analyze the impact various spending, mainly on education, health, military, effect welfare Asian Countries. was conducted in 20 countries constructed panel data from 2013–2017 analyzed using fixed general least square (FEGLS) method. results show that, spending education had a positive significant Cou...

The paper tries to relate inequality, occupational choice and long run wealth. Defining the unskilled as poor, skilled group as middle class and entrepreneurs as rich the paper focusesstarting from a huge middle class relative to the rich along with a higher fraction of borrowing entrepreneurs within the rich group, an economy converges with a very low wealth level. In other words, one needs to...

Parent education programs may be offered or mandated at various stages of the child welfare services continuum. However, little is known regarding their efficacy in addressing the parenting problems that bring families to the attention of child welfare services. This article synthesizes outcome data generated from 58 parenting programs with families determined to be at-risk of child maltreatmen...