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. We assess this approach by comparing directly evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists of three …Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children's health … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …
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We argue that independent entitlement to income is important. This implies that earnings replacement benefits paid to …. The argument also highlights the need to consider gender differences in the receipt of income. We explore the implications …
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2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …
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progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining … educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …
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We explore the relative influence of family and neighbourhood on educational attainment and how this varies by sibling type. Using English register data we find sibling correlations in exam scores of 0.563 at the end of primary school and of 0.621 at the end of compulsory schooling. The...
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-left (2005-10). Income inequality diminished during the restoration of democracy, but started to grow steadily in the mid-1990s … reduction in labour income inequality and the introduction of noncontributory public transfers schemes. …
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Are social (occupational) classes coherent, distinct entities? While they reflect an underlying reality, they are more fragmented than theory suggests. It is hypothesised that skill mismatches mean that each class includes a substantial proportion of poorly paid people who could be in the class...
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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of disability benefits for the elderly. Using seventeen waves of panel data, it first analyses the extent to which receipt is responsive to changes in disability status. Second, it investigates the extent of delays in first receipt. Third, it compares later...
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The aim of this paper is to test the existence of middle class bias in survey cooperation. We do this by carrying out a record check study. Our analysis uncovers no evidence of middle class bias. Instead we find a negative gross bias in estimates of the proportion of persons with highest...
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survey data on household incomes and find no evidence of higher levels of income deprivation among DLA than AA recipients in … terms of equivalised pre-benefit family income. …
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