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Housing Outcomes: An Assessment of Long-Term Trends
Orr, James A.; Peach, Richard W. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999
In the field of housing economics, there is a long traditionof evaluating housing outcomes for the entire populationand various subgroups by tracking four key variables, orconcepts: the physical adequacy of the occupied housingunit, the number of people living in the unit relative to thenumber...
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A Look at Real Housing Prices and Incomes: Some Implications for Housing Affordability and Quality
Gyourko, Joseph E.; Tracy, Joseph - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
[...]In this paper, we update this affordability debateusing data from the 1990s. We follow Gyourko and Linneman(1993) in addressing the affordability issue by asking asimple question: Is a home of a given quality from ten ortwenty years ago more or less affordable today to a householdsimilarly...
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The Economic Legacies of the ‘Thin White Line’: Indirect Rule and the Comparative Development of Sub-Saharan Africa
Richens, Peter - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
exogenously imposed. The number of colonial administrators relative to the African population – or the ‘thin white line’ – in 33 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870402
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A Stakeholder Empire: The Political Economy of Spanish Imperial RuleIn America
Grafe, Regina; Irigoin, Alejandra - Northwestern University <Evanston, Ill.; College of New …; …
This paper revises the traditional view of Spain as a predatorycolonial state that extracted revenue from natural resources andpopulations in the Americas while offering little in return. Using 18thcentury Spanish American treasury accounts we show that localelites not only exerted important...
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Fact or Fiction? Re-examination of Chinese Premodern Population Statistics
Deng, Kent G. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
half a century or so, basic quantities ofsome basic factors have remained disagreed. Chinese population is one of them … Chinese official censuses have beensystematically thrown away almost completely.As a result, the picture of Chinese population …’s population size despite the fact that population is commonlyregarded as one of the key economic factors in an economy. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870596
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States and Markets in Latin America: The political economy of economic interventionism
Lewis, Colin M. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
The state is conceptually distinct from both economy and society, with inherent interests in expanding its scope for autonomous action, asserting control over economic and social interactions, and structuring economic and social relations. These interests derive primarily from the state’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870833
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When Rabbits became Human (and Humans, Rabbits): Stability, Order, and History in the Study of Populations
Erickson, Paul; Mitman, Gregg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
“Population” is often a significant unit of analysis, and a point of passage for facts and models moving between the … natural and social sciences, and between animals and humans. But the very existence of a population is a “fact” fraught with … challenges: What distinguishes a population from an economy, an ecosystem, a society? Are populations simply memory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870923
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Confronting the Stigma of Perfection: Genetic Demography, Diversity and the Quest for a Democratic Eugenics in the Post-war United States
Ramsden, Edmund - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
Eugenics has played an important role in the relations between social and biological scientists of population through … boundary work. In the immediate post-war era, demographers often denigrated the contributions of biologists to population … population, programmes they believed to threaten population science and policy with the stigma of typological thinking. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870929
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How The Mind Worked: Some Obstacles And Developments In The Popularisation Of Psychology
Adams, Jon - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
Chronicling the history of science and health popularisation in the United States, John C. Burnham sees a decline from the Victorian “men of science” to a situation in the mid-1980s where what passed as the popularisation of science consisted of little more than a litany of unrelated facts....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870938
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Sheer Class? The Extent and Sources of Variation inthe UK Graduate Earnings Premium
Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy; McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
In this paper, we use the individual-level USR data for the wholepopulation of 1993 leavers from the ‘old’ universities of the UK toinvestigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings. Amongother results, we find that there are significant differences in theoccupational earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695283