Intergenerational Disadvantage: Causes, Pathways, and Consequences

该项目旨在通过发展科学证据和创造性的政策方法来克服根深蒂固的劣势，防止澳大利亚贫困儿童成为贫困的成年人。该项目将利用新的澳大利亚数据产生关于社会援助依赖如何跨代联系的新知识。预期结果是：1)父母与子女社会救助依赖之间的因果关系；Ii)青年克服不利条件的途径；(3)家庭结构在劣势传递中的作用。这一发现将对重新设计澳大利亚社会安全网、促进社会和经济流动性具有重大意义。

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.