prevention policies and damage mitigation regulations. Yet, disaster damage varies greatly across countries. We argue that … a country's disaster propensity - holding everything else equal, such as hazard magnitude, the country's total wealth …. Governments, which can in principle correct these market failures, themselves face incentives to underinvest in costly disaster …

’ involvement thus reinforces charity media events’ dominant discourse of charitainment, in which a disaster is portrayed as a short …

pathways by which parental status is related to offspring status, including education, labor market attachment, occupation … because of the higher returns to education and skills, the pathway through offspring education is relatively more important …

One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly … a positive education gradient into a negative one. We also consider the response in terms of uptake of other childhood …

updating the existing evidence with a snapshot of the welfare mix in 2007/2008 across five different welfare sectors: Education …

lowest rates of staying on in the labour market after childbearing. Higher education is a key explanatory factor of the …), education and part-time employment. …

countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …

concentrated on the income elasticity, but this tells us nothing other than that leisure (or education) is a normal good. Using a …

Public provision of private goods such as education is usually viewed as a form of redistribution in kind. However … public provision of education. The political process that I analyse involves endogenous parties. Parties have a unique role … of different groups in society to compromise with one another. I find that public provision of education arises as an …