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years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained …
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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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Chronicling the history of science and health popularisation in the United States, John C. Burnham sees a decline from …
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allocation in education, health and social housingand to chart their course as a tool with which governments attempted toachieve …
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This paper uses evidence from the US to examine the impact ofadolescent illegal consumption and violent behaviour on later lifechances. Specifically, we look at the effect of such behaviour by youngmen in late adolescence on productivity and household formation tenyears on. We find that alcohol...
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In the past decade there has been a minor revolution in how local services are funded.Those delivering the services now have their own budgets. How these budgets arecalculated – how Whitehall pulls the purse strings – are now central issues in social policy.In a new book, CASE members...
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, particularly poor children, on major public services – education, health, social care,and housing – as well as social security. The … children, which canbe set alongside evidence on outcomes for children, including trends in child poverty,children’s health and …
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This paper explores these issues further by reconsidering the link between democracy and health using panel data from a … capital as well as political histories. The data also suggest that health policy interventions are superior in democracies …
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A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health anddevelopment outcomes of children. One … family type, we study outcomes spanningtest scores, mental health, physical health, and deprivation measures. Thefindings … existing literature.However, we also find that several measures of both child and maternalmental health and well-being show …
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At the end of 2008, the Government set in motion a Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England chaired by Sir …, Director of the Centre for Health Equity Studies at Stockholm University. Kay Withers and Jan Flaherty ably supported the work …
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