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Satisfaction and Expectations: Attitudes to publicservices in deprived areas

Duffy, Bobby - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

Based on outcomes for residents and qualitative studies, it is widelythought that public services meet the needs of residents less well indeprived areas, and that this is due to both the demands placed onservices being greater and the services themselves being of a lowerquality. This paper looks...

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Social Welfare Systems in East Asia:A Comparative Analysis Including Private Welfare

Jacobs, Didier - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five EastAsian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong andSingapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as incomedistribution aspects, based on both aggregate data and a programme-byprogrammereview of their...

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Talking to Families in East London

Mumford, Katharine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

Katharine Mumford reports on her first round of interviews with 100 familiesliving in two East London neighbourhoods. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families, and to uncover the significance of area conditions...

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Are one man’s rags another man’s riches?Identifying adaptive expectations using panel data

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

scaling of satisfaction.The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …. This suggests that income is a poor proxy for satisfaction but it does not provide firm evidence for the existence of … to rising incomes but less so falling incomes.The paper concludes that satisfaction with income is influenced by …

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Tasting freedom: Happiness, religion and economictransition

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect allequally. This paper uses Hungarian survey data to study the impact ofreligion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvementcontributes positively to individuals’ self-reported well-being.Controlling for...

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The Lives of ‘Facts’: Understanding Disease Transmission Through the Case of Haemophilus influenzae type b Bacteria

Mattila, Erika - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

This article studies how our understanding of disease transmissionhas evolved over time from the public health perspective. The mainquestion is: What happens to ‘facts’ in the course of their lifehistory? How do they lead their lives? The concept captures theprocess that shapes the facts of...

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Public Goods and Economic Development

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

Effective provision of public goods is a key determinant of quality of life. Conventional approaches to poverty measurement look only at private goods, butthis view is too narrow. Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, transport,medical care, and schools is essential both as a direct...

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Knowing what is good for you: Empirical analysis ofpersonal preferences and the “objective good”

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

relations – significantlyinfluence people’s satisfaction, ceteris paribus. Next, the stability of preferencesis tested using … satisfaction andbasic measures of well-being despite the landslide of societal and economictransformation.[...] …

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