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The asymmetric experience of positive and negative economic growth: global evidence using subjective well-being data

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Ward, George W.; de Keulenaer, Femke - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in macroeconomic growth? Using subjective well-being measures across three large data sets, we observe an asymmetry in the way positive and negative economic growth are experienced, with losses having more than twice as much impact on...

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Child support awards in Britain: an analysis of data from the families and children study

Morris, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where the father is non-resident have an award or agreement for child support in place. Data from the Families and Children Study are used to explore not only whether mothers have an award or order but the type of award they...

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Public policy and inequalities of choice and autonomy

Burchardt, Tania; Evans, Martin; Holder, Holly - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This article explores the conceptualisation of choice as autonomy using three components – self-reflection, active decision-making, and quality and range of options - and investigates empirical inequalities in autonomy, using newly-collected data for the UK. ‘Choice’ has been promoted in...

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Non-residential fatherhood and child involvement: evidence from the millennium cohort study

Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Fifteen per cent of British babies are now born to parents who are neither cohabiting nor married. Little is known about non-residential fatherhood that commences with the birth of a child. Here, we use the Millennium Cohort Study to examine a number of aspects of this form of fatherhood....

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Constraint and opportunity: identifying voluntary non-employment

Burchardt, Tania; Le Grand, Julian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper is an attempt to assess the extent to which the behaviour of an individual is the result of the constraints that he or she faces – factors beyond individual control - or the result of the exercise of his or her preferences. The study concentrates on participation or...

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The contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the field of human rights

Vizard, Polly - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how his work has promoted cross-fertilisation and integration on this subject …

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Constraint and opportunity: identifying voluntary non-employment

Burchardt, Tania; Le Grand, Julian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 40, Constraint and opportunity: Identifying voluntary non-employment by Tania Burchardt and Julian Le Grand

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Inactivity among prime age men in the UK

Faggio, Giulia; Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

a limiting long-term illness or disability. In our analysis of inactivity rates by region and age group we find that …

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Poverty and worklessness in Britain

Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness, rising earnings dispersion and benefits indexed to prices, not wages. So poverty is now at a very high level. The economic forces underlying this are the significant shift in demand against the...

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Disabled people’s financial histories: uncovering the disability wealth-penalty

McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

status. In this paper we use data from two large scale social surveys to examine the relationship between disability status … important lifecycle patterns. The incidence of disability increases with age and the effect of this is that disabled people are … that average differences understate the true disability wealth-penalty. People who experience disability later in life have …

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