This paper uses the housing market to examine the costs of indoor air pollution. We focus on radon, an indoor air …

project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years after building occupancy, $10,000 of per-student investment in …

economic development and the dynamics of inequality withinand across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonicallyin the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growthpromoting traits … process of economic development. Inmature stages of development, however, risk-averse traits gained an evolutionary advantage …

The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changesthat have generally weakened the …

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … various poverty lines... …

This paper presents an analysis of housing conditions amongst the British urban workingclass in 1904, using a re …

To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, wesuggest a methodology based on … counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposingchanges in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax …

deficiencies. Weuse these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904... …Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turnof the 20th century … of urban working households in Britainin the period than any other existing record, although they are not without …

Exposure to childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting … accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of the intergenerational persistence of poverty and the mechanisms through … which it is channeled. This study investigates differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States (U …