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6657: Valuation and evaluation: measuring the quality of life and evaluating policy

Partha Dasgupta

6656: The rise of mass consumption societies

Kiminori Matsuyama

6654: Child farm labour: theory and evidence

Sonia Bhalotra and Christopher Heady

6653: Private investment and political uncertainty

David Stasavage

6652: Is child work necessary?

Sonia Bhalotra

6651: Commodity taxation and social welfare: the generalised Ramsey rule

David Coady and Jean Dreze

6649: What makes a revolution?

Robert MacCulloch

6648: Does social insurance help secure property rights?

Robert MacCulloch

6647: Is a friend in need a friend indeed? Inclusion and exclusion in mutual insurance networks in southern Ghana

Markus Goldstein, Alan de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

6646: The role of freedom, growth and religion in the taste for revolution

Robert MacCulloch and Silvia Pezzini

6645: Democracy and education spending: has Africa's move to multiparty elections made a difference to policy?

David Stasavage

6644: Intrahousehold efficiency and individual insurance in Ghana

Marcus Goldstein

6643: Eviction threats and investment incentives

Abhijit Banerjee and Maitreesh Ghatak

6642: Government corruption and legislative procedures: is one chamber better than two?

Cecilia Testa

6641: Gender discrimination and growth: theory and evidence from India

Berta Esteve-Volart

6640: Does envy destroy social fundamentals? The impact of relative income position on social capital

Justina A. V. Fischer and Benno Torgler

6638: Linearity testing using local polynominal approximation

Vidar Hjellvik, Qiwei Yao and Dag Tjostheim

6636: Mixed dominance: a new criterion for poverty analysis

Stephen Howes

6635: Efficient estimation of conditional variance functions in stochastic regression

Jianqing Fan and Qiwei Yao

6633: Robust estimation of personal income distribution models

Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

6631: Methods for estimating a conditional distribution function

Peter Hall, Rodney C. L. Wolff and Qiwei Yao

6625: Monotonicity and the Pareto principle

Yoram Amiel and Frank Cowell

6621: Identifying the poor: a multiple indicator approach

Ramses Abul Naga

6601: On the performance of social benefit systems

Christian Schluter

6599: On the non-stationarity of German income mobility (and some observations on poverty dynamics)

Christian Schluter

6597: Prediction and sufficiency in the model factor analysis

Ramses Abul Naga

6596: Linear inequality concepts and social welfare

Udo Ebert

6595: The subjective approach to the measurement of income inequality

Yoram Amiel

6594: Inequality in Greece: an analysis by income source

Christos Papatheodorou

6591: Happiness in transition: the case of Kyrgyzstan

Ceema Namazie and Peter Sanfey

6586: Education or inflation? The roles of structural factors and macroeconomic instability in explaining Brazilian inequality in the 1980s

Francisco Ferreira and Julie Litchfield

6583: Evaluation via extended orderings: empirical findings from west and east

Wulf Gaertner and Jochen Jungeilges

6582: Choices in egalitarian distribution: inequality aversion versus risk aversion

Yoram Kroll and Leima Davidovitz

6579: Estimating the intergenerational correlation of incomes: an errors in variables framework

Ramses Abul Naga

6574: Responsibility-sensitive fair compensation in different cultures

Erik Schokkaert and Kurt Devooght

6568: Decomposing inequality in Greece: results and policy implications

Christos Papatheodorou

6566: Education, inequality and income inequality

Daniele Checchi

6564: Galtonian regression of intergenerational income linkages: biased procedures, a new estimator and mean-square error comparisons

Ramses Abul Naga

6562: A note on the estimation of intergenerational income correlations by the method of averaging

Ramses Abul Naga

6561: Robust income distribution estimation with missing data

Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

6560: The wild bootstrap, tamed at last

Russell Davidson and Emmanuel Flachaire

6559: Measuring inequality by counting 'complaints': theory and empirics

Kurt Devooght

6557: Early evidence of welfare changes in the Kyrgyz republic: have things got worse with reforms?

Ceema Zahra Namazie

6555: Who bore the burden of wage arrears in the Kyrgyz republic?

Ceema Zahra Namazie

6553: Convergence club empirics: some dynamics and explanations of unequal growth across Indian states

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

6551: Argentina's crises and the poor, 1995-2002

Guillermo Cruces and Quentin Wodon

6550: Risk-adjusted poverty in Argentina: measurement and determinants

Guillermo Cruces and Quentin Wodon

6548: Hierarchic contracting

Miguel A. Sanchez and Rafael Hortala-Vallve

6547: Knowledge-based economic development: mass media and the weightless economy

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

6546: Growth and inequality: a demographic explanation

Kazutoshi Miyazawa

6545: Income fluctuation, poverty and well-being over time: theory and application to Argentina

Guillermo Cruces

6544: Understanding inequality trends: microsimulation decomposition for Italy

Carlo Fiorio

6543: Anti-evasion auditing policy in the presence of common income shocks

Miguel Sanchez-Villalba

6541: Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes

Ramses Abul Naga and Pierre Geoffard

6538: Inequality measurement for ordered response health data

Ramses Abul Naga and Tarik Yalcin

6537: Redistributive taxation and public expenditures

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Joan Esteban

6536: Corporate tax competition and public capital stock

Pedro Gomes and Francois Pouget

6533: Maternity leave policies and women's employment after childbirth: evidence from the United States, Britain and Japan

Jane Waldfogel, Yoshio Higuchi and Masahiro Abe

6527: Income dynamics in Germany, the USA and the UK: evidence from panel data

Christian Schluter

6525: An economic model of household income dynamics, with an application to poverty dynamics among American women

Simon Burgess and Carol Propper

6516: Social exclusion, social isolation and the distribution of income

Brian Barry

6509: When work disappears: new implications for race and urban poverty in the global economy

William Julius Wilson

6501: The decline of employment among older people in Britain

Nigel Campbell

6487: Income transfers to the elderly in East Asia: testing Asian values

Huck-Ju Kwon

6481: The family gap in pay: evidence from seven industrialised countries

Susan Harkness and Jane Waldfogel

6478: The class of '81: the effects of early-career unemployment on subsequent unemployment experiences

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Hedley Rees and Arran Shearer

6476: Low inequality with low redistribution? An analysis of income distribution in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan compared to Britain

Didier Jacobs

6450: Measuring income risk

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner, Stephen Jenkins and Carol Propper

6438: Why rising tides don't lift all boats: an explanation of the relationship between poverty and unemployment in Britain

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

6437: Welfare reform and lone mothers' employment in the US

Jane Waldfogel, Sandra K. Danziger, Sheldon Danziger and Kristin Seefeldt

6432: Growing up: school, family and area influences on adolescents' later life chances

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

6430: Social exclusion and children: a European view for a US debate

John Micklewright

6410: On prediction and chaos in stochastic systems

Howell Tong and Qiwei Yao

6409: On subset selection in non-parametric stochastic regression

Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong

6402: On initial-condition sensitivity and prediction in nonlinear stochastic systems

Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong

6397: Expanding the domain of policy-relevant scholarship in the social sciences

William Julius Wilson

6395: Measuring well-being and exclusion in Europe's regions

Kitty Stewart

6393: Sheer class? The extent and sources of variation in the UK graduate earnings premium

Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith and Abigail McKnight

6389: Informal employment in countries in transition: a conceptual framework

Sabine Bernabe

6387: Smart growth: the future of the American metropolis?

Bruce Katz

6384: Tasting Freedom: happiness, religion and economic transition

Orsolya Lelkes

6380: Cross-validatory bandwidth selection for regression estimation based on dependent data

Howell Tong and Qiwei Yao

6379: The economic determinants of truancy

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

6373: Comparing incomes when needs differ: equivalisation for the extra costs of disability in the UK

Asghar Zaidi and Tania Burchardt

6371: Cohabitation and divorce across nations and generations

Kathleen Kiernan

6365: Continuity and change in pathways to young adult disadvantage: results from a British birth cohort

John Hobcraft

6363: Reviewing the terms of inclusion: transactional processes, currencies and context

Sally Witcher

6361: Why labour hoarding may be rational: a model of firm behaviour during transition

Ceema Zahra Namazie

6359: Is targeting deprived areas an effective means to reach poor people? An assessment of one rationale for area-based funding programmes

Rebecca Tunstall and Ruth Lupton

6334: Identifying vulnerable groups in the Kyrgyz labour market: some implications for the national poverty reduction strategy

Sabine Bernabe and Alexandre Kolev

6329: The effect of unobservables on labour supply decisions: the formal and informal sector during transition

Ceema Zahra Namazie

6327: 'Neighbourhood effects': can we measure them and does it matter?

Ruth Lupton

6325: Common structure in panels of short time series

Qiwei Yao, Howell Tong, Bärbel Finkenstädt and Nils Chr Stenseth

6324: Nonparametric estimation of ratios of noise to signal in stochastic regression

Howell Tong and Qiwei Yao

6323: Disability and disadvantage: selection, onset and duration effects

Stephen Jenkins and John A. Rigg

6321: Schools in disadvantaged areas: recognising context and raising quality

Ruth Lupton

6319: Neighbourhood management and the future of urban areas

Anne Power

6316: Intergenerational and life-course transmission of social exclusion in the 1970 British cohort study

Wendy Sigle-Rushton

6314: Functional-coefficient regression models for nonlinear time series

Zongwu Cai, Jianqing Fan and Qiwei Yao

6313: Ethnic segregation in England's schools

Simon Burgess and Deborah Wilson