Poverty, inequality and social mobility

Using four decades of Danish administrative data, we estimate the intergenerational transmission of violent crime victimization.

Twentieth-century U.S. data confirm the predictions, rank-based measures co-move while the intergenerational elasticity diverges as inequality rises.

We find that strategically concentrating resources on a single binding constraint maximizes the short-run learning gains per dollar spent.

We study New York City’s Community Schools Initiative using a difference-in-differences design.

We document substantial heterogeneity in workforce effectiveness in England’s national home-visiting programme for first-time teenage mothers.

Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and Census data, we study multigenerational correlations in education across three generations.

Demand-side policies which relax borrowing constraints for homebuyers, with the aim of increasing homeownership, are increasingly common.

Estimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. However, expenditure data is almost always at the household level.

In this paper, we estimate average equivalized consumption measures across 367 local authority districts in Great Britain.

Many policy decisions involve trade-offs between lives and livelihoods. We provide estimates for a new welfare parameter that expresses this trade off