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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

[...]This paper contributes to the identification of adaptive expectations by using ten years of panel data from the British Household Panel Survey to study the process of adaptation based on the individual’s own previous experience. Subjective assessments of financial well-being at time t,...

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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 … of happiness for the religious. The impact ofeconomic transition has varied greatly across different groups. The …

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Regional Income Dispersion and Market Potential in the Late Nineteenth Century Hapsburg Empire

Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Western Europe than suggested in the historiography. The measurement of regional market potential proves strongly sensitive to … the composition of foreign economies considered in the computations and the choice of regional ‘nodes’. Further, though …

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Is Social Capital Persistent? Comparative Measurement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Rota, Marta Felis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Recently, there has been a growing interest in social capital and in the difficulties related to its measurement. In …

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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

Using a new source of evidence we explore the geographical mobility of mid-nineteenth century seamen. Among seamen born outside London, the tall, the literate and those who could remember the exact day, month and year when they were born - characteristics that we suggest mark them out as men...

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“On a Mission” with Mutable Mobiles

Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

: its recipesfor development, its possibilities of measurement, and fromdifferences in political economy. These dimensions …

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Accurate Measurement and Design Standards: Consistency of Design and the Travel of ‘Facts’ Between Heterogeneous Groups

Velkar, Aashish - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Design standards are carriers and creators of facts, enabling facts about product value to travel between groups, and assisting in the creation of product value by establishing a reference or comparison against which product attributes are compared. However, when design standards are not...

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