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Sustainability and well-being indicators

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper provides a review and critical discussion of indicators, which attempt to combine the measurement of … (GS) have merely focused on the capacity to provide utility in the future, but have not included the measurement of … failed to account for sustainability in their measurement of current well-being. The paper then critically reviews the Index …

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Definition of equality and framework for measurement: final recommendations of the equalities review steering group on measurement

Burchardt, Tania; Vizard, Polly - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

approach as its measurement framework and recommended that all public bodies use the framework to “agree priorities, set …: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement (CASEpaper 121), were prepared as background … papers to assist in the development of the measurement framework for the Equalities Review. It discusses the challenges in …

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Modelling vulnerability in the UK

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

In this paper we examine the concept of "vulnerability" (Townsend 1994) within the context of income mobility of the poor. We test for the dynamics of vulnerable households in the UK using Waves 1 - 12 of the British Household Panel Survey and find that, of three different types of risks that we...

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Mixed dominance: a new criterion for poverty analysis

Howes, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1993

The second-order stochastic dominance criterion for inequality analysis introduced by Atkinson (1970) covers nearly all well-known inequality indices. The same cannot be said, in respect of poverty indices, for the second-order stochastic dominance criterion for poverty analysis introduced by...

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Static and dynamic poverty in Spain, 1993-2000

Barcena, E; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We focus on the statics and dynamics of poverty in Spain using data from the first eight waves of the European Community Household Panel from 1994 to 2001, a period not sufficiently covered by recent literature. The results confirm the pattern of poverty changes noted by other authors for the...

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Socio-economic status and child behaviour: evidence from a contemporary UK cohort

Propper, Carol; Rigg, John A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper examines whether and how socio-economic status is associated with children’s behavioural development in today’s children. Using a large cohort of English children born in the early 1990s we find significant social inequalities in several dimensions of child behaviour at age 7. We...

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Diabetes and depression comorbidity and socio-economic status in low and middle income countries (LMICs): a mapping of the evidence

Leone, Tiziana; Coast, Ernestina; Narayanan, Shilpa; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Non-communicable diseases account for more than 50% of deaths in adults aged 15–59 years in most low income countries. Depression and diabetes carry an enormous public health burden, making the identification of risk factors for these disorders an important strategy. While socio-economic...

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The marginal income effect of education on happiness: estimating the direct and indirect effects of compulsory schooling on well-being in Australia

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Wooden, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Many economists and educators favour public support for education on the premise that education improves the overall well-being of citizens. However, little is known about the causal pathways through which education shapes people’s subjective well-being (SWB). This paper explores the direct...

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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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Argentina's crises and the poor, 1995-2002

Cruces, Guillermo; Wodon, Quentin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple …

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