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Seebohm Rowntree and the Post-War Poverty Puzzle
Bailey, Roy E; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
In his third social survey of York carried out in 1950, Seebohm Rowntree reported a steep decline since 1936 of the percentage of households in poverty. He attributed the bulk of this decline to government welfare reforms enacted during and after the War. Some observers have been uneasy about...
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
Modin, Bitte; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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Fat City: Questioning the Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Obesity
Eid, Jean; Overman, Henry G; Puga, Diego; Turner, Matthew A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We study the relationship between urban sprawl and obesity. Using data that tracks individuals over time, we find no … evidence that urban sprawl causes obesity. We show that previous findings of a positive relationship most likely reflect a … neighbourhoods. Our results indicate that current interest in changing the built environment to counter the rise in obesity is …
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Ranking Journals by Concentration of Author Affiliation: Thirty-Five Years of Finance Research
Lasser, Dennis; Rydqvist, Kristian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper presents a new metric for journal ranking that has the advantage of ranking more journals with a longer time-series at a low cost relative to impact factors and survey-based methods. We simultaneously rank journals and institutions by the degree of concentration of top journal...
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Trade, Technique and Composition Effects: What is Behind the Fall in World-wide SO2 Emissions, 1990-2000?
de Melo, Jaime; Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
, an emission-decomposition exercise shows that scale effects are dominated by technique effects working towards a …
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'Actual' versus 'Virtual' Employment in Europe: Is Spain Different?
Marimon, Ramon; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
We study the evolution of sectoral employment and labour cost in 11 European countries over the last two decades. Our statistical approach consists of decompositions for country, industry and temporal effects. Virtual economies are constructed by filtering country effects. We find that sectoral...
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From First-Release to Ex-Post Fiscal Data: Exploring the Sources of Revision Errors in the EU
Beetsma, Roel; Bluhm, Benjamin; Giuliodori, Massimo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper explores the determinants of deviations of ex-post budget outcomes from first-release outcomes published towards the end of the year of budget implementation. The predictive content of the first-release outcomes is important, because these figures are an input for the next budget and...
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Gender, Poverty and the Intra-household Distribution of Resources
Findlay, Ronald; Wright, Robert E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Numerous authors have pointed out the importance of taking into consideration the intra-household distribution of resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between all household members. There is a growing body of...
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Poverty Dynamics Among Young Americans
Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper characterizes the nature of poverty from a dynamic life-cycle perspective. Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that 40% of young Americans experienced at least one year of poverty, and most of these experienced one or two years. A significant...
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