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Welfare reforms and child well-being in the US and UK

Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low-income … data also point to divergence across the two countries. In the UK, low-income families affected by the reforms are spending …

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Can labour regulation hinder economic performance? Evidence from India

Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper investigates whether the industrial relations climate in Indian States has affected the pattern of manufacturing growth in the period 1958-92. We show that pro-worker amendments to the Industrial Disputes Act are associated with lowered investment, employment, productivity and output...

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Education or inflation? The roles of structural factors and macroeconomic instability in explaining Brazilian inequality in the 1980s

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Litchfield, Julie A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

decomposition suggests that changes in inequality are not explained by income or allocation effects across these groupings, but by …

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A note on the estimation of intergenerational income correlations by the method of averaging

Abul Naga, Ramses H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

parents' income while the Behrman/Taubman estimator regresses an S-period average of the child's resources on a T …-period average of the parents' income. The latter estimator is shown to be the arithmetic mean of the S slope estimates arising from …

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Galtonian regression of intergenerational income linkages: biased procedures, a new estimator and mean-square error comparisons

Abul Naga, Ramses H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

correlation via the use of proxy variables entails an errors-in-variables bias. By solving a system of moment equations for income … averaging estimator provides intermediary values between OLS and the proposed estimator. Persistence is higher for family income …

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Happy talk: mode of administration effects on subjective well-being

Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Research on the measurement of subjective well-being (SWB) has escalated in recent years. This study contributes to the literature by examining how SWB reports differ by mode of survey administration. Using data from the 2011 Annual Population Survey in the UK, we find that individuals...

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Estimating the intergenerational correlation of incomes: an errors in variables framework

Abul Naga, Ramses H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

instrumenting procedures. Here we take the permanent income of the parents' family to be unobserved, but we assume that its … of parents and children entail estimates of the order of 0.61 to 0.64 for the coefficient of intergenerational income … transmission. OLS estimates this parameter at 0.5. The variance ratio of permanent to total income is also estimated to be in the …

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Social identity and redistributive preferences: a survey

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Social identity is increasingly accepted as a key concept underpin- ning the endogeneity of economic behaviour and preferences. This feature is especially important in explaining redistribution preferences as well as attitudes towards redistribution and pro-social behaviour. This paper carries...

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Do rural banks matter? evidence from the Indian social banking experiment

Burgess, Robin; Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Lack of access to finance is often cited as a key reason why poor people remain poor. This paper uses data on the Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirial evidence on this issue. Between 1977 and 1990, the Indian Central Bank mandated that a commercial bank can open a branch in...

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Intergenerational mobility in Britain : revisiting the prediction approach of Dearden, Machin and Reed

Abul Naga, Ramses H.; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

the child and parent families on separate sets of predetermined variables, and (2) regressing the child’s predicted income …

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