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dc.contributor.authorLohse, Timen
dc.contributor.authorLutz, Peter F.en
dc.contributor.authorThomann, Christianen
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-10-
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-11T11:40:28Z-
dc.date.available2012-01-11T11:40:28Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/54581-
dc.description.abstractRecently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a great deal of attention. Programs of such early intervention, aiming at children's health and well-being, are spreading considerably in the U.S. and are currently tested in several European countries. In a discrete version of the Mirrlees model with a parents' and a children's generation we show the intra-generational and the inter-generational redistributional consequences of such intervention programs. It turns out that the parents' generation always loses when such intervention programs are implemented. Among the children's generation it is the rich who always benefit. Despite the expectation that early intervention puts the poor descendants in a better position, our analysis reveals that the poor among the children's generation may even be worse off if the effect of early intervention on their productivity is not large enough.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aWissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) |cBerlinen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWZB Discussion Paper |xSP II 2011-107en
dc.subject.jelI38en
dc.subject.jelJ13en
dc.subject.jelH21en
dc.subject.jelI14en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordEarly Interventionen
dc.subject.keywordwelfareen
dc.subject.keywordredistributionen
dc.subject.keywordtaxationen
dc.titleInvestments in the human capital of the socially disadvantaged children: Effects on redistribution-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn682499463en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:wzbfff:SPII2011107en

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