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One third of the world's growth and inequality
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world … countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746699
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Modernisation and son preference
Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attracted international attention. In this paper demand … analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household … in intra-household allocation. Spending on health is found to be biased against young girls in the poor but not in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928624
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Maximum Likelihood in the Frequency Domain: a Time to Build Example.
Christiano, L.J.; Vigfusson, R.J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
A well known result is that the Gaussian log-likelihood can be expressed as the sum over different frequency components. This implies that the likelihood ratio statistic has a similar linear decomposition. We exploit these observations to devise diagnostic methods that are useful for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207535
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Government spending shocks, wealth effects and distortionary taxes
Cloyne, James - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
The size and sign of the government spending multiplier crucially depends on how the spending is financed and how consumers respond to implied future tax increases. I investigate this issue in an estimated New Keynesian DSGE model with distortionary labor and capital taxes and, importantly, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126036
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Modelling vulnerability in the UK
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
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 test for, household-specific shocks and economy-wide aggregate … to the income stream. The estimates are found to be robust to household composition and year-specific shocks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928683
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744956
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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 sustainability with that of well-being. It starts with some commonly agreed definitions of sustainability, showing how most well-being indicators tell us little if anything at all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745092
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Static and dynamic poverty in Spain, 1993-2000
Barcena, E; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Community Household Panel from 1994 to 2001, a period not sufficiently covered by recent literature. The results confirm the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745472
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745491
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745662