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Employment, Family Union, and Childbearing Decisionsin Great Britain

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain.Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model,which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employmentand non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...

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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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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

matching in the marriage market, and empirically evaluates thisin the context of arranged marriages among middle-class Indians … one's own group or if there is a preference for \marrying up". We then estimateactual preferences for caste, education … in-caste marriage. We find that in equilibrium, as predicted by our theoreticalframework, these preferences do little to …

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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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Child Support Awards in Britain: An Analysis of Datafrom the Families and Children Study

Morris, Stephen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where thefather is non-resident have an award or agreement for child support in place. Datafrom the Families and Children Study are used to explore not only whether mothershave an award or order but the type of award they...

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Non-residential Fatherhood and Child Involvement:Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study

Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

Fifteen per cent of British babies are now born to parents who are neithercohabiting nor married. Little is known about non-residential fatherhood thatcommences with the birth of a child. Here, we use the Millennium Cohort Studyto examine a number of aspects of this form of fatherhood. Firstly,...

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Cohabitation and divorce across nations andgenerations

Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

marriage; they are less likely to have their first childwithin marriage; and their own partnerships and marriages are in …

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Modelling Vulnerability in the UK

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Cowell, Frank A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

In this paper we examine the concept of "vulnerability" (Townsend 1994) within thecontext of income mobility of the poor. We test for the dynamics of vulnerablehouseholds in the UK using Waves 1 - 12 of the British Household Panel Survey andfind that, of three different types of risks that we...

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Why rising tides don’t lift all boats: An explanation ofthe relationship between poverty and unemploymentin Britain

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

This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship betweenaggregate poverty and unemployment in Great Britain. We derive aframework based on individuals’ risks of unemployment and poverty,and how these vary over the economic cycle. Analysing the BritishHousehold Panel Survey for...

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Measuring Income Risk

Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Jenkins, Stephen P.; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures ofincome risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as asource of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution tototal income risk of demographic and labour market factors....

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