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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

scaling of satisfaction.The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the … comparison with previous experience. Surprisingly, individuals who have experienced an increase in income are also less satisfied …. This suggests that income is a poor proxy for satisfaction but it does not provide firm evidence for the existence of …

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Developing a capability list: Final Recommendationsof the Equalities Review Steering Group onMeasurement

Vizard, Polly; Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Equalities Review SteeringGroup on Measurement (CASEpaper 120) were prepared as backgroundpapers to assist in the development of … the measurement framework for theEqualities Review. The companion paper discusses the key challengesinvolved in … translating capability theory into a practical measurement tool inthe context of measuring inequality in Britain in the 21st …

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Definition of equality and framework formeasurement: Final Recommendations of theEqualities Review Steering Group on Measurement

Burchardt, Tania; Vizard, Polly - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Steering Group on Measurement(CASEpaper 121), were prepared as background papers to assist in thedevelopment of the measurement …), a measurement framework for monitoring trends ininequality, exploring the causes of inequality, and identifying possible …

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Driven to swim with the tide? Urban redevelopment and community participation in China

Shin, Hyun Bang - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

Over the last decade, there has been growing attention to the issue of neighbourhood governance and community participation in China. The focus has been on the extent to which community involvement in rule-making and decision-making processes could be promoted. The issue of community...

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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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Urban Social Exclusion in Transitional China

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

This paper demonstrates that urban social exclusion in China does not onlyinclude restricted participation by the “underclass” in urban life, but also thedeprivation of certain political, social and economic rights. In addition, thepaper describes how the character of urban social exclusion...

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Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of SocialExclusion in the 1970 British Cohort Study

Sigle-Rushton, Wendy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

This study used data from the British Cohort Study to examine the relationshipsbetween childhood background experiences and a variety of indicators of adultwell-being. Similar to an earlier study that analyses the National ChildDevelopment Study, we use a rich array of childhood background...

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Neighbourhood Management and the Future of UrbanAreas

Power, Anne T. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

This paper is about low-income neighbourhoods, their organisation andmanagement. It is not a study in deprivation, but is about problem-solving,about the reforms in delivery underway in Britain, about long run attempts tochange neighbourhood conditions and environments, about the central role...

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Individual Choice and Social Exclusion

Le Grand, Julian - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

Why is social exclusion a problem? What about ‘voluntary’ social exclusion –when an individual chooses to exclude him or herself from the wider society?Brain Barry has addressed these questions in a recent CASE book, arguing thatsocial exclusion, voluntary or involuntary, offends against...

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‘Neighbourhood Effects’:Can we measure them and does it matter?

Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

Renewed interest in disadvantaged neighbourhoods is generating increasingresearch activity. Current work includes qualitative community studies andquantitative investigations of area effects on individual outcomes. This papercriticises the contribution of area effects research to date....

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