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A Dreadful Heritage: Interpreting Epidemic Disease at Eyam, 1666-2000

Ransome-Wallis, Patrick - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

. The construction of the Eyam plague story offers an unusually clear case study in the social and intellectual dynamics of …

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The Dynamics of being Disabled

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

Government policies on disability – and criticism of them – rest in parton an understanding of the circumstances of disabled people informedby cross-sectional survey data, dividing the population into “thedisabled” and “the non-disabled”. While conceptual debates about thenature of...

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An Economic Model of Household Income Dynamics,with an Application to Poverty Dynamics amongAmerican Women

Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

) household income dynamics. This is largelybecause of the difficulties created by the fact that on top of the humancapital issues … proposesa framework for modelling household income dynamics. it emphasisesthe role of household formation and dissolution, and …, income and poverty dynamics.We illustrate this framework with an application to poverty rates amongyoung women in the US. We …

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Unique equilibrium in a dynamic model of crises with frictions

Guimarães, Bernardo - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper studies a dynamic model of crises with timing frictions that combines the mainaspects of Morris and Shin (1998) and Frankel and Pauzner (2000). The usual arguments forexistence and uniqueness of equilibrium cannot be applied. It is shown that the model has aunique equilibrium within...

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An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamics of Qualitative Decisions of Firms

Corres, Stelios; Hajivassiliou, Vassilis; Ioannides, … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

considerable success in explaining the dynamics of such decisions, with individualcharacteristics of firms, which include firm … fundamentals and lagged values of past decisions,exhibiting a strong explanatory impact. The dynamics implied by the estimated …

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Fiscal Policy and Debt Dynamics in Developing Countries

Ilzetzki, Ethan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2011

cuts in corporateor VAT rates. Second, using the methods of Favero and Giavazzi,2007 (FG) to incorporate debt dynamics into … a fiscal VAR, we findthat debt dynamics significantly alter estimates of the impact of fiscalpolicy on GDP in some …

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Labour Market Disadvantage amongst Disabled People:A Longitudinal Perspective

Rigg, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

Considerable cross-sectional evidence has highlighted the lower employmentrates and earnings amongst disabled people in Britain. But very little is knownabout the progression of disabled people in employment. This study uses datafrom the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to examine the labour market...

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Income Dynamics and the Life Cycle

Rigg, John; Sefton, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

income trajectories of people at different stages in theirlives in order to build a picture of income dynamics over the whole …

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