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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
of the household’s income, andthe household’s assessment of the quality of its neighborhoodand of its local public … services. In this paper, weexamine trends in housing outcomes over the past twodecades for income quintiles, controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870043
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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
affordability forhouseholds at the bottom of the income distribution. Real house prices at the lower end of the price distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870045
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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
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Talking to families in East London
Mumford, Katharine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
The first round of interviews with 100 families living intwo East London neighbourhoods has unearthed newinformation on problems and strengths in these areas,families’ coping strategies, and area change. Families’dissatisfaction with the areas was high, compared with thenational average. But...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008845700
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The Big Push for Transformation through Climate and Development : Recommendations of the High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery and Growth
World Bank - 2023
The High-Level Advisory Group (HLAG) on Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery and Growth came together to provide policy analysis and practical proposals for actions that could help countries secure a strong recovery from the pandemic and a successful green transition. This report pulls together...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057888
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870500
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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