the feasibility of working from home and in the ability to smooth consumption under temporary income shocks. …

. Seven objective income-based definitions of social class are contrasted with a self-perceived social status measure … incomes. Mismatches arise because self-perceived social status is associated not just with income, but also with personal …

neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three times the nationalaverage; Income Support claims twice as high; health and …

. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families … problems and strengths,children’s education, and the direction of change.[...] …

students. It isnot clear, however, that these differences in attendance are caused by income itselfrather than by parental … needed as families potentially differ in unobservable waysthat are correlated with both income and attendance. In this paper … we use families withseveral children to correct for unobserved time-invariant family fixed effects. Ourresults suggest …

caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to education, credit and other means to generate income, so they earn … lower wages, which in turn prevents them from accumulating the assets they need to increase future income. The authors … analyze the ownership and use of income-generating assets, as well as access to them. Where there are market imperfections …