There has been a terrifying ‘logic’ to the protracted civil war in Sri Lanka which came to its very sad conclusion in the third week of May 2009. It is easy to understand why people living in Colombo and the south-western part of Sri Lanka felt very relieved and even enthused by the brutal crushing of the Tamil Tiger after twenty-six years of insecurity and conflict. However, any sense of victo...

Abstract This study investigates the effect of parental aspirations gap on children’s educational attainment between 2007 and 2014, using two waves Indonesian Family Life Survey data. The is measured by difference one’s future reference point his or her current life evaluation reported each household head spouse. results show that boys whose fathers report a moderate level achieve substantially...

In this paper we use a multidimensional framework to characterise child poverty in the UK. We examine the interdependencies amongst the di¤erent dimensions of multidimensional poverty, and the relationship of multidimensional poverty with income poverty. We also explore the links between multidimensional poverty, income poverty, and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development. Our …nding...

This article analyzes the long-term consequences of nuclear waste storage within a general equilibrium framework. The objective is to determine the conditions for which the storage of waste, and thus the transfer of externalities towards the future, can be optimal. These conditions could explain the implementation of intergenerational externalities, justifying an intertemporal Not In My Back Ya...

Researchers have long known that poverty in childhood is linked with a range of negative adult socioeconomic outcomes, from lower educational achievement and behavioral problems to lower earnings in the labor market. But few researchers have explored whether exposure to a disadvantaged background affects immigrant children and native children differently. George Borjas uses Current Population S...

This paper examines the level and distribution of equivalent after tax, after transfer money income in Canada, the USA, the UK, Germany and Sweden using micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study from 1969/70 to 1994/95. It concentrates on inequality within and between birth cohorts. At any point in time, less than 11% of aggregate income inequality is due to intergenerational inequality, but ...

supported this research. The views expressed in this paper do not reflect those of the granting agency or the reviewers. The author would like to thank Kevin and Kim Bacon and UC Center Sacramento for their support. The author also thanks Natasha Orlova for her excellent research assistance, and acknowledges Chloe East, Sarah Miller and Laura Wherry who are collaborators on the multi-generation...

Nearly 50 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, racial inequality in America remains a persistent empirical regularity. Despite much progress in the 1960s and 1970s, large adverse black-white gaps persist in earnings, employment, family income, health, life expectancy, incarceration, teen pregnancy, educational attainment, and academic achievement. Hispanic-white gaps in economic and educat...