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Parental Investment in Childhood and Later Adult Well-Being: Can More Involved Parents Offset the Effects ofSocioeconomic Disadvantage?

Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

involvement and the gender ofthe parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlierpoverty, especially at … age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest inschool at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education. The … frequency ofoutings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education thanoutings with father, however, neither …

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Social Indicators and the Study of Inequality

Meyers, Marcia K.; Garfinkel, Irwin - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

reform and devolution for inequality and well-beingin the largest and most diverse city in the United States.The project uses … these data by population andover time, we hope to address questions that are at the coreof current debates about inequality … in the United States:How great is inequality? Does income inequality exaggerate,or reflect, inequality in material and …

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Knowledge-Based Economic Development: Mass Media and the Weightless Economy

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

have a robustnegative association with both corruption and inequality. Radios and TVs are alsoobserved to have a robust … negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and … is constructed, which also has a negative associationwith corruption. ICTs association with inequality varies with the …

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Growing up: School, family and area influences onadolescents’ later life chances

Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

This paper explores the links between school, family and areabackground influences during adolescence and later adult economicoutcomes. The empirical analysis is based on data covering the period1979 to 1996, drawn from the 1979 US National Longitudinal Survey ofYouth. For a sample of...

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Modernisation and Son Preference

Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attractedinternational attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncoverthe factors which may be driving the emergence of these gender gaps.Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...

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Understanding low achievement in English Schools

Kingdon, Geeta; Cassen, Robert - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications inEngland. This paper seeks to build a fuller picture of Key Stage 4 low achievementand its correlates than available hitherto. We focus on three aspects. Firstly, the role ofstudents’ personal characteristics,...

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Goodness-of-Fit: An Economic Approach

Cowell, Frank A.; Flachaire, Emmanuel; Bandyopadhyay, … - London School of Economics and Political Science; Pôle …; … - 2009

Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions;goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriatein the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use a distance criterion based onthe EDF, an aggregation of differences in...

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Inequality and the State

Hills, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

That Britain became more unequal in the last quarter century is well known; the scale of change, less so.At the end of the 1970s, the richest tenth received 21 per cent of total disposable income. This rose to 28-29per cent by 2002-03, as much as the whole of the bottom half. More than half of...

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A simple model of inequality, occupational choice, and development

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Jiang, Neville Nien-Huei - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

We analyze a simple and tractable model of occupational choice in the presence of credit marketimperfections. We examine the effect of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, andhistory, in terms of the initial wealth distribution, in determining the long-term wealth...

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Poverty and Inequality and Social Policy in China

Li, Bingqin; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is …

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