TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bellani, Luna
AU  - Bia, Michela
        TI  - The Long-Run Impact of Childhood Poverty and the Mediating Role of Education
        PY  - 2017/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10677
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10677
        AB  - This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes in adulthood in the European Union. We apply a potential outcomes approach to quantify those impacts and we provide a sensitivity analysis on possible unobserved confounders, such as child ability. Our estimates indicate that being poor in childhood significantly decreases the level of income in adulthood and increases the average probability of being poor. Moreover, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly relevant for Mediterranean and Central and Easter European Countries. 
        KW  - causal mediation analysis
KW  - potential outcome
KW  - intergenerational transmission
KW  - poverty
KW  - education
        ER  -