Inequalities at birth persist into the next generation Inequalities at birth of one generation persist into inequality among the offspring in the next generation: differences in birth weight of parents are associated with differences in school performance of their children.
Do Lower Minimum Wages for Young Workers Raise their Employment? A new study by Claus Thustrup Kreiner, together with Daniel Reck from LSE and Peer Ebbesen Skov from Auckland University of Technology, measures the impact of youth minimum wages on youth employment.
Earmarked Paternity Leave and the Relative Income within Couples Reducing gender inequality has become a central motivation for labor market and child-care policy reforms.
Financial Trouble from Generation to Generation Financial trouble has big consequences for individual welfare and for the design of debt relief policies and bankrupcy laws. However, little is known about why some people end up in financial trouble while others do not…
