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Welfare Reforms and Child Well-Being in the US and UK

Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

-income families, looking specifically at the effects onpoverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper finds … reformshave affected child health and development. Identifying such effects remains animportant topic for further research.[...] …

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Teenage Expectations and Desires about Family Formation in the United States

Plotnick, Robert D. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

Using data collected in 2000 on a racially and ethnically diverse sample of high school seniors (typically 17-18 years old), this study analyzes teenagers’ expectations and desires about marriage, having children, and becoming unwed parents. The study is the first to examine all six outcomes...

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Social Mobility, Life Chances, and the Early Years

Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

early years, or what policies might bemost effective, given the multiple influences on development in the early yearsand … given the complex effects of policies. In this paper, I review what we knowfrom research about what affects development in …

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

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

associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to …

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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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