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How The Mind Worked: Some Obstacles And Developments In The Popularisation Of Psychology
Adams, Jon - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
Chronicling the history of science and health popularisation in the United States, John C. Burnham sees a decline from …
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Fair Shares for All?The development of needs based government fundingin education, health and housing
Hendry, Ross - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998
allocation in education, health and social housingand to chart their course as a tool with which governments attempted toachieve …
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Early Health Related Behaviours and their Impact onLater Life Chances: Evidence from the US
Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998
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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Funding Systems for Doctors, Schools and Social Landlords
Glennerster, Howard; Hills, John; Travers, Tony - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
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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A Fair Share of Welfare: Public Spending on Children in England
Sefton, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
, 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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Gesundheit, Qualifikation und Motivation älterer Arbeitnehmer- messen und beeinflussen
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Ökonomische Bewertung von Kindergesundheit in der Umweltpolitik
Niens, Christine; Marggraf, Rainer - Universität <Göttingen> / Department für … - 2010
Seit dem Ende der 1980er Jahre wird dem Zusammenhang von Umwelt und menschlicherGesundheit zunehmend Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Die Tatsache, dass Umweltbelastungenzu gesundheitlichen Problemen führen können, wurde erkannt und man begann auf politischerEbene Maßnahmen zur Risikoreduktion zu...
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Health and Democracy
Besley, Timothy; Kudamatsu, Masayuki - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248806
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Germany’s Fruit From Liechtenstein’s Poisonous Tree
Kessler, Wolfgang; Eicke, Rolf - Universität <Freiburg, Breisgau> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2008
Not all fruits are healthy; some fruits are poisonous.German prosecutors must wonder which oftheir collected ‘‘fruits’’ they can use against the hundredsof individuals that could be indicted for failing todeclare savings in Liechtenstein. What could turn outto be the biggest tax evasion...
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A Structural Analysis of the Health Expenditures andPortfolio Choices of Retired Agents
Hugonnier, Julien; Pelgrin, Florian; St-Amour, Pascal - Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North … - 2010
Richer and healthier agents tend to hold riskier portfolios and spend proportionallyless on health expenditures …. Potential explanations include health and wealth eects onpreferences, expected longevity or disposable total wealth. Using HRS … data, we perform astructural estimation of a dynamic model of consumption, portfolio and health expenditurechoices with …
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