Deutsch
 
Hilfe Datenschutzhinweis Impressum
  DetailsucheBrowse

Datensatz

DATENSATZ AKTIONENEXPORT

Freigegeben

Forschungspapier

Investments in the Human Capital of the Socially Disadvantaged Children – Effects on Redistribution

MPG-Autoren
/persons/resource/persons49222

Lohse,  Tim
Public Economics, MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance, Max Planck Society;

Externe Ressourcen
Volltexte (beschränkter Zugriff)
Für Ihren IP-Bereich sind aktuell keine Volltexte freigegeben.
Volltexte (frei zugänglich)
Es sind keine frei zugänglichen Volltexte in PuRe verfügbar
Ergänzendes Material (frei zugänglich)
Es sind keine frei zugänglichen Ergänzenden Materialien verfügbar
Zitation

Lohse, T., Lutz, P. F., & Thomann, C. (2011). Investments in the Human Capital of the Socially Disadvantaged Children – Effects on Redistribution. Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, 2011-17.


Zitierlink: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-49DF-C
Zusammenfassung
Recently, 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.