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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London

Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

explanatory variable in the analysis of migration. Although correlated with other variables that are routinely used in …

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The Roofs of Wren and Jones: A Seventeenth-Century Migration of Technical Knowledge from Italy to England

Valeriani, Simona - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

Seventeenth-century English architecture saw the introduction of a new style, influenced by continental Europe, and driven, to a large extent, by the work of Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren. But along with the aesthetic novelty came novel building techniques; construction methods embedded...

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Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market

Dickens, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

This paper discusses the extent to which migrants to Britain have been assimilated into the workforce. Migration into …

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Non-residential Fatherhood and Child Involvement:Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study

Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

Fifteen per cent of British babies are now born to parents who are neithercohabiting nor married. Little is known about non-residential fatherhood thatcommences with the birth of a child. Here, we use the Millennium Cohort Studyto examine a number of aspects of this form of fatherhood. Firstly,...

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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