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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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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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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 …

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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....

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A Profile of Poverty in Tajikistan

Falkingham, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

independence and the cessation of the civilwar. The picture that emerges is of a population facing severe economic,physical and … psycho-social stress.Over 95 percent of the population are living below the minimumconsumption basket, four out of five are …

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The Dynamics of being Disabled

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

disabled people informedby cross-sectional survey data, dividing the population into “thedisabled” and “the non … breakdown isgiven of the working-age population who are disabled at any one timeby the ‘disability trajectories’ they follow …

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Low inequality with low redistribution?An analysis of income distribution in Japan, SouthKorea and Taiwan compared to Britain

Jacobs, Didier - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequalityin four countries, namely Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the UnitedKingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures bypopulation groups and income sources (except for Japan because of datalimitations)....

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Include Me Out? The New Politics of Place and Poverty

Kleinman, Mark - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

explained in part by theopenness of the London economy and the lack of basic skills of asubstantial minority of the population …

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