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Economic Growth Evens-Out Happiness: Evidence from Six Surveys

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly happy". Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within …

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The Century of Education

Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010, using perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto (2007) database. The correlation between the two sets of average years of schooling in 1960 is equal to 0.96. We...

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Upward Social Mobility, Well-being and Political Preferences: Evidence from the BHPS

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Angelo, Emanuela - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

The paper uses 18 waves of BHPS data to provide evidence of the roles of both own social status and upward mobility relative to one's parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro-public sector attitudes and voting. Both own social status and greater mobility with...

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Inflation, Inequality and Social Conflict

Crowe, Christopher - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

will tend to be higher in countries with higher inequality and with greater pro-rich bias in the political system …. Conversely, the use of income tax will be higher in countries with lower inequality and less pro-rich bias. The model also … predicts that although inequality and political bias will have an impact on the composition of revenue, it will have no effect …

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Spatial Agglomeration Dynamics

Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

distribution. Spatial inequality is a Cass-Koopmans saddlepath, and the global distribution of economic activity converges towards … egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …

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One Third of the Worlds Growth and Inequality

Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper studies growth and inequality in China and India û two economies that account for a third of the world …'s population. By modelling growth and inequality as components in a joint stochastic process, the paper calibrates the impact each …-country inequality is insignificant for inequality dynamics. …

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Its Not What You Make, Its How You Use IT: Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries

Bayoumi, Tamim; Haacker, Markus - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper analyzes the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (information technology) goods across a wide range of countries. We find, using two separate methodologies and datasets, that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling...

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Digital Goods and the New Economy

Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

Digital goods are bitstrings, sequences of 0s and 1s, which have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are nonrival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...

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Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance and Adverse Selection

Spinnewijn, Johannes - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Recent empirical work finds that surprisingly little variation in the demand for insurance is explained by heterogeneity in risks. I distinguish between heterogeneity in risk preferences and risk perceptions underlying the unexplained variation. Heterogeneous risk perceptions induce a systematic...

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Molecular Genetics and Subjective Well-Being

Bartels, Meike; Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cesarini, David; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Subjective well-being (SWB) is a major topic of research across the social sciences. Twin and family studies have found that genetic factors may account for as much as 30-40% of the variance in SWB. Here, we study genetic contributions to SWB in a pooled sample of ~11,500 unrelated,...

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