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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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The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order: British Children in the 1930s

Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in Interwar Britain. It uses the Boyd Orr cohort, a survey of predominantly poor families taken in 1937-9, which provides a unique opportunity to explore the determinants of child...

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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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Precipitation, Profits, and Pile-Ups

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

In considering the economic impacts of climatic changes, economists frequently use annual national income as a proxy for social welfare. I show that such studies suffer from a significant bias, arising from the fact that such models typically ignore changes in mortality rates. Using panel data...

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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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Correcting the Bias in the Concentration Index when Income is Grouped

Clarke, Philip; Ourti, Tom Van - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

The problem introduced by grouping income data when measuring socioeconomic inequalities in health (and health care) has been highlighted in a recent study. We reexamine this issue and show there is a tendency to underestimate the concentration index at an increasing rate when lowering the...

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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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Public-Private Wage Gap in Australia: Variation Along the Distribution

Cai, Lixin; Liu, Amy Y.C. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

and are negative for the top half of the conditional wage distribution. The decomposition results show that the observed …

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