Intergenerational Disadvantage: Causes, Pathways, and Consequences

该项目旨在通过开发科学证据和创造性的政策方法来克服根深蒂固的不利条件，防止贫穷的澳大利亚儿童成为贫穷的成年人。该项目将利用澳大利亚的新数据，产生关于社会援助依赖如何在几代人之间联系起来的新知识。预期结果是：1)父母和儿童对社会援助的依赖之间的因果联系；2)青少年克服劣势的途径；3)家庭结构在传播劣势方面的作用。通过改变证据基础，这些发现将对重新设计澳大利亚的社会安全网、促进社会和经济流动性产生重大好处。

This Project aims to prevent poor Australian children from becoming poor adults by developing scientific evidence and creative policy approaches to overcome entrenched disadvantage. The Project will generate new knowledge on how social assistance dependence is linked across generations using new Australian data. Expected outcomes are the identification of i) the causal link between parents’ and children’s social assistance dependence; ii) the pathways through which youths overcome disadvantage; and iii) the role of family structure in transmitting disadvantage. Transforming the evidence base, the findings will have significant benefits in redesigning the Australian social safety net, promoting social and economic mobility.