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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 … individuals’ self-reported well-being.Controlling for personal characteristics of the respondents, money is aless important source …

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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

. Subjective assessments of financial well-being at time t, for individuals with a given income level, are compared according to … scaling of satisfaction.The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …. 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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Money, States and Empire: Financial Integration Cycles and Institutional Change in Central Europe, 1400-1520

Chilosi, David; Volckart, Oliver - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

advanced in a cyclical fashion over the fifteenth century. The cycles were associated with changes in the money supply. Long …

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After the Great Debasement, 1544-51: Did Gresham’s Law Apply?

Li, Ling-Fan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

the disappearance of good money over this period has provided any solid quantitative assessment of the effectiveness of …

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The Effects Of The 1925 Portuguese Bank Note Crisis

Wigan, Henry - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

bank through which he concealed over £3m in counterfeit money.[...] …

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Measuring Instruments in Economics and the Velocity of Money

Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

measure the velocity of money ranging from the 17th to the 20th centuries. These historical experiences suggest that numerical …

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Time is Money: A Re-assessment of the Passenger Social Savings From Victorian British Railways

Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

saving money to saving time came when railway technology stopped simply fulfilling existing demand more cheaply (travel for …-thirds. We calculate railway speeds, and the amount and value of time saved by railways. Initially small, time savings was three …

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