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Poverty and postnatal depression: a systematic mapping of the evidence from low and lower middle income countries
Coast, Ernestina; Leone, Tiziana; Hirose, Atsumi; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This study systematically maps, assesses and aggregates research relating to postnatal depression (PND) and poverty in … 17 countries were included in our mapping. We highlight mechanisms for the relationships between poverty and PND in … LLMICs. The research base on the relationships between poverty and PND in LLMIC is limited, but has recently expanded. It is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746111
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Market structure and borrower welfare in microfinance
Fetzer, Thiemo; de Quidt, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Motivated by recent controversies surrounding the role of commercial lenders in microfinance, we analyze borrower welfare under different market structures, considering a benevolent non-profit lender, a for-profit monopolist, and a competitive credit market. To understand the magnitude of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126412
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Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods: is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?
Knies, Gundi; Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746715
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Do oil windfalls improve living standards?: evidence from Brazil
Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls on government behavior. Oil-rich municipalities experience increases in revenues and report corresponding increases in spending on public goods and services. However, survey data and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125909
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Economic growth evens-out happiness: evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has fallen in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the “very unhappy” and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126047
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Does relative income matter? Are the critics right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Do other peoples’ incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many decades? The answer to both questions is ‘Yes’....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071479
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The social protection of rural workers in the construction industry in urban China
Li, Bingqin; Peng, Huamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
The construction industry is important for Chinese rural to urban migrants. Over 90% of urban construction workers are rural migrants, and over a third of all rural migrants work in construction. The construction industry is not only particularly important, but is also different from other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126068
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Economic deprivation, maternal depression, parenting and children's cognitive and emotional development in early childhood
Kiernan, Kathleen E.; Huerta, Maria Carmen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This study uses data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study to examine the extent to which economic circumstances in infancy and mother's mental well-being are associated with children's cognitive development and behaviour problems at age 3 years, and what part parenting behaviours and attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745555
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Social exclusion and children: a European view for a US debate
Micklewright, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
poverty, analysis of children's living standards, state versus federal responsibilities, welfare reform and the emphasis on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125982
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Assessing the impact of illness, caring and ethnicity on social activity
Platt, Lucinda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is one aspect or one definition of poverty … important for those whose circumstances make them already more vulnerable to marginalisation, exclusion or poverty. For example …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126675