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The impact of low income on child health: evidence from a birth cohort study

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Rigg, John A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

There is a growing literature that shows that higher family income is associated with better health for children …. Wealthier parents may have more advantaged children because they have more income to buy health care or because parental wealth … is associated with beneficial behaviours or because parental health is associated with both income and children¿s health …

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Re-visiting the health care luxury good hypothesis: aggregation, precision, and publication biases?

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Gemmill, Marin; Rubert, Gloria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

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Does hospital competition save lives?: evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms

Cooper, Zack; Gibbons, Stephen; Jones, Simon; McGuire, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper examines whether or not hospital competition in a market with fixed reimbursement prices can prompt improvements in clinical quality. In January 2006, the British Government introduced a major extension of their market-based reforms to the English National Health Service. From January...

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Are you happy while you work?

Bryson, Alex; MacKerron, George - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Recent work in psychology and economics has investigated ways in which individuals experience their lives. This literature includes influences on individuals’ momentary happiness. We contribute to this literature using a new data source, Mappiness (www.mappiness.org.uk), which permits...

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Familiarising the unfamiliar: cognitive polyphasia, emotions and the creation of social representations

de-Graft Aikins, Ama - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Within the Social Representations Theory (SRT) paradigm, social representations are defined technically as practical social knowledge that is produced when groups and individuals encounter the unfamiliar. Social representations therefore function to familiarise the unfamiliar. Theorists also...

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Healer shopping in Africa: new evidence from rural-urban qualitative study of diabetes experiences

de-Graft Aikins, Ama - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Objectives To provide counterevidence to existing literature on healer shopping in Africa through a systematic analysis of illness practices by Ghanaians with diabetes; to outline approaches towards improving patient centred health care and policy development regarding diabetes in Ghana. Design...

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Building community capital in social care: is there an economic case?

Knapp, Martin; Bauer, Annette; Perkins, Margaret; Snell, Tom - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Current debates about the sustainability of public commitments include discussion of the adequacy and affordability of collective health and social care responses to the rapidly growing needs of ageing communities. A recurrent theme in England is whether communities can play greater roles in...

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Mental health: the choice of therapy for all

Layard, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Richard Layard has spent much of his professional life tackling unemployment and inequality. But in his latest work, he argues that mental illness is now Britain's biggest social problem.

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The effect of bans and taxes on passive smoking

Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper evaluates the effect of smoking bans in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers and contrasts it with the effect of excise taxes. Exploiting data on cotinine - a metabolite of nicotine - as well as state and time variation in anti-smoking policies across US...

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Capturing the time-varying drivers of an epidemic using stochastic dynamical systems

Dureau, Joseph; Kalogeropoulos, Konstantinos; Baguelin, Marc - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Epidemics are often modeled using non-linear dynamical systems observed through partial and noisy data. In this paper, we consider stochastic extensions in order to capture unknown influences (changing behaviors, public interventions, seasonal effects, etc.). These models assign diffusion...

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