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Measuring well-being and exclusion in Europe's regions
Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
The Lisbon summit of the European Council in March 2000 declared the number of people living in poverty and social exclusion in the European Union to be unacceptable, and called for steps to tackle the issue, beginning with the setting of targets for particular indicators. The targets suggested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126405
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Knowing what is good for you: empirical analysis of personal preferences and the 'objective good'
Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
between these two in the case of basic needs. For the analysis, individuals’ self-reported life satisfaction is used as a … social relations – significantly influence people’s satisfaction, ceteris paribus. Next, the stability of preferences is … between life satisfaction and basic measures of well-being despite the landslide of societal and economic transformation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126250
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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
satisfaction of aspirations or expectations, and if these are affected by the individual’s previous experience of deprivation or … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126358
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From philanthropy to "altruism": incorporating unselfish behavior into economics, 1961-1975
Fontaine, Philippe - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
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New housing supply and the dilution of social capital
Hilber, Christian A. L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
This paper examines the role of local housing market conditions for social capital accumulation and neighborhood club good provision. A model of individual investment decisions predicts that in a setting with high property transaction costs (i) homeowners are more likely to invest in social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928759
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Cooperatives vs. outside ownership
Hart, Oliver; Moore, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
We are concerned with the design of a constitution for a firm - an ex ante contract which assigns residual rights of control (and possibly residual income rights) without reference to the issue to be decided. We focus attention on two polar constitutions: non-profit cooperatives and outside...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928786
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Evaluation via extended orderings: empirical findings from west and east
Gaertner, Wulf; Jungeilges, Jochen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
The theoretical background of the empirical investigations to be reported in this paper are positionalist aggregation functions which are numerically representable. More concretely, the broad Borda rule is proposed as an aggregation mechanism for the case of a complete set (profile) of so-called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928802
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Group deliberation and the transformation of judgments: an impossibility result
List, Christian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
into account too. I discuss the significance of these findings for democratic theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744872
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Bayesian group belief
Dietrich, Franz - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
If a group is modelled as a single Bayesian agent, what should its beliefs be? I propose an axiomatic model that connects group beliefs to beliefs of the group members. The group members may have different information, different prior beliefs and even different domains (algebras) within which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744918
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Governance from below: a theory of local government with two empirical tests
Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
government works. This paper proposes a theory of local government as the confluence of two quasi-markets and one organizational … comparative analysis to test the theory's predictions with qualitative and quantitative evidence from Bolivia. The combined … methodology provides a higher-order empirical rigor than either approach can alone. The theory proves robust. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744939