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Social comparisons, health and well-being

Clark, Andrew E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Health and well-being are socially determined. One of the ways in which this comes about is via social comparisons with other individuals in the same personal, geographic or social networks, with the comparisons referring either to income or other aspects of economic and social life. The...

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Understanding the relationship between parental income and multiple child outcomes: a decomposition analysis

Gregg, Paul; Propper, Carol; Washbrook, Elizabeth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

. We conclude that many aspects of growing up in poverty are harmful to children’s development, and that narrowly …

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Parental investment in childhood and later adult well-being: can more involved parents offset the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage?

Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

families suggest that parental involvement does matter, but that it depends on when it and poverty are measured, as well as the … type of involvement and the gender of the parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlier poverty …, however, neither compare with the reduction in the poverty effect as a result of father interest in school. …

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The marginal utility of income

Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income increases. One needs this parameter for cost-benefit analysis, for optimal taxation and for the (Atkinson) measurement of inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large...

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Cross-national rankings of intergenerational mobility: a comparison of approaches from economics and sociology

Blanden, Jo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper summarizes research on the relative level of intergenerational mobility – whether classified by income, education or social class. The literatures on education and income mobility reveal a similar ranking with South America, other developing nations, southern European countries and...

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One man's rags are another man's riches: identifying adaptive preferences using panel data

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

One of the motivations frequently cited by Sen and Nussbaum for moving away from a utility metric towards a capabilities framework is a concern about adaptive preferences or conditioned expectations. If utility is related to the satisfaction of aspirations or expectations, and if these are...

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Is child work necessary?

Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the … boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less clear in the case of … requires alleviation of the poverty of their households. Trade sanctions or bans on child labour may have deleterious …

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Schools in disadvantaged areas: recognising context and raising quality

Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower in disadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has been focused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring the relationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the quality...

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