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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

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 … to rising incomes but less so falling incomes.The paper concludes that satisfaction with income is influenced by …

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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...

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LSE Evaluation of the Trafford Hall Making Things Happen Capacity Building Programme 1999-2003

Beck, Helen; Richardson, Liz - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The Trafford Hall Making Things Happen Programme is an innovative and practical‘capacity building’ programme of residential training, linked to follow-up small grants, forsocial housing tenants in England and Wales. It aims to support community volunteers to beinvolved in improving...

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The New Political Economy

Besley, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

This lecture is not in any sense a survey of the field. It is a highlyselective and personal view of the motivation …

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Thanks for nothing? Not-for-profits and motivated agents

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Müller, Hannes - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

We re-examine the labor donation theory of not-for-profits and show that these organizations may exist notnecessarily because motivated workers prefer to work in them, or that they dominate for-profits in terms ofwelfare, but because the excess supply of motivated workers makes the non-profit...

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