JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10696) H - Public Economics (1336) H7 - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations (182) H75 - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare (55)
Number of items at this level: 55.
Article
  • Aucejo, Esteban M., Hupkau, Claudia, Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer (2025). Where versus what: college value-added and returns to field of study in further education. Journal of Human Resources, 60(2), 607 - 652. https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0620-10978R1 picture_as_pdf
  • Camarero Garcia, Sebastian (2022). Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity. Labour Economics, 74, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102084 picture_as_pdf
  • Caselli, Francesco, Michaels, Guy (2013). Do oil windfalls improve living standards? Evidence from Brazil. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5(1), 208-238. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.5.1.208
  • Channa, Anila, Faguet, Jean-Paul (2016). Decentralization of health and education in developing countries: a quality-adjusted review of the empirical literature. World Bank Research Observer, 31(2), 199-241. https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lkw001
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Nicińska, Anna, Rosello-Roig, Melcior (2025). Equal before luck? Well-being consequences of personal deprivation and transition. Social Science & Medicine, 376, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117975 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Salmasi, Luca, Zaccagni, Sarah (2025). More than a ban on smoking? Behavioural spillovers of smoking bans in the workplace. Economics and Human Biology, 58, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101512 picture_as_pdf
  • D'Amico, Francesco, Fernández, José-Luis (2012). Measuring inefficiency in long-term care commissioning: evidence from english local authorities. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 34(2), 275-299. https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/pps022
  • Denti, Daria, Iammarino, Simona (2022). Coming out of the woods. Do local support services influence the propensity to report sexual violence? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 193, 334 - 352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.11.024 picture_as_pdf
  • Dougherty, Sean, Lorenzoni, Luca, Marino, Alberto, Murtin, Fabrice (2022). The impact of decentralisation on the performance of health care systems: a non-linear relationship. European Journal of Health Economics, 23(4), 705 - 715. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-021-01390-1
  • Faguet, Jean-Paul, Sánchez, Fabio (2014). Decentralization and access to social services in Colombia. Public Choice, 160(1-2), 227-249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-013-0077-7
  • Faguet, Jean-Paul, Khan, Qaiser, Kanth, Devarakonda Priyanka (2021). Decentralization’s effects on education and health: evidence from Ethiopia. Publius: the Journal of Federalism, 51(1), 79 - 103. https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjaa025 picture_as_pdf
  • Fernández, José-Luis, Forder, Julien (2012). Reforming long-term care funding arrangements in England: international lessons. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 34(2), 346-362. https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/pps020
  • Gavazza, Alessandro, Nardotto, Mattia, Valletti, Tommaso (2019). Internet and politics: evidence from U.K. local elections and local government policies. Review of Economic Studies, 86(5), 2092 – 2135. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdy028
  • Gibbons, Stephen, Machin, Stephen, Silva, Olmo (2013). Valuing school quality using boundary discontinuity. Journal of Urban Economics, 75, 15-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2012.11.001
  • Gibbons, Stephen, Silva, Olmo, Weinhardt, Felix (2013). Everybody needs good neighbours?: evidence from students' outcomes in England. The Economic Journal, 123(571), 831-874. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12025
  • Graves, Sebastian, Hazell, Jonathon, Lewis, Walker F., Patterson, Christina (2022). Unemployment insurance financing as a uniform payroll tax. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 112, 97 - 101. https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20221072
  • Hu, Bo, Hancock, Ruth, Wittenberg, Raphael, King, Derek, Morciano, Marcello (2025). Reforming the funding of long-term care for older people: costs and distributional impacts of planned changes in England. Health Economics, Policy and Law, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133125000088 picture_as_pdf
  • Huebener, Mathias, Waights, Sevrin, Spiess, C. Katharina, Siegel, Nico A., Wagner, Gert G. (2021). Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany. Review of Economics of the Household, 19(1), 91 - 122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-020-09529-4 picture_as_pdf
  • Josten, Cecily, Lordan, Grace (2020). The interaction between personality and health policy: empirical evidence from the UK smoking bans. Economics and Human Biology, 38, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100899 description
  • Kattenberg, Mark, Vermeulen, Wouter (2017). The stimulative effect of an unconditional block grant on the decentralized provision of care. International Tax and Public Finance, 25(1), 166-199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-017-9442-7
  • Larraín, Felipe, Perelló, Oscar (2019). Resource windfalls and public sector employment: evidence from municipalities in Chile. Economía, 19(2), 127 - 167. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.2019.0004 picture_as_pdf
  • Nascimento, Marcus Gerardus L., Becker, Kalinca L., Mendonça, Mario Jorge (2020). Implications of Brazilian institutional guidelines on educational efficiency. Economía, 21(1), 147 - 168. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.2020.0009 picture_as_pdf
  • Noble, Michael, Platt, Lucinda, Smith, George, Daly, Michael (1997). The spread of disability living allowance. Disability and Society, 12(5), 741-752. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599727029
  • Platt, Lucinda (2003). Ethnicity and inequality: British children’s experience of means-tested benefits. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 34(3), 357-377.
  • Platt, Lucinda (2005). New destinations? Assessing the post-migration social mobility of minority ethnic groups in England and Wales. Social Policy and Administration, 39(6), 697-721. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2005.00465.x
  • Platt, Lucinda (2006). Social insecurity: children and benefit dynamics. Journal of Social Policy, 35(03), 391-410. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279406009846
  • Platt, Lucinda (2005). The intergenerational social mobility of minority ethnic groups. Sociology, 39(3), 445-461. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038505052494
  • Platt, Lucinda, Landman, Todd, Sunkin, Maurice, Calvo, Kerman (2007). Mapping the use of judicial review to challenge local authorities in England and Wales. Public Law, 2007(Aut.), 545-567.
  • Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés, Burlina, Chiara (2021). Institutions and the uneven geography of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Regional Science, 61(4), 728 - 752. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12541 picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Rodrigo (2020). Free or fair elections? The introduction of electronic voting in Brazil. Economía, 21(1), 73 - 99. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.2020.0007 picture_as_pdf
  • Wang, Wanying, Costa-Font, Joan (2026). Unequal care, unequal health care? Gender differences in health care use after adult care access. Social Science & Medicine, 389, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118833 picture_as_pdf
    • Chapter
  • Li, Bingqin (2012). Social welfare and protection for economic growth and social stability — China’s experience. In A Changing China: Emerging Governance, Economic and Social Trends (pp. 39-60). Civil Service College. picture_as_pdf
    • Conference or Workshop Item
  • Khan, Qaiser, Faguet, Jean-Paul, Gaukler, Christopher, Mekasha, Wendmsyamregne Decentralization’s effects on education, health and agriculture outcomes, and on distribution: evidence from Ethiopia [Paper]. UNSPECIFIED. picture_as_pdf
    • Report
  • Calhoun, Craig (1988). North Carolina today: contrasting conditions and common concerns. Rural Education and Development, Inc..
    • Online resource
  • Carr-West, Jonathan (2012). Local government finance reform will create winners and losers but could help engage communities and strengthen democracy.
    • Working paper
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2011). French social housing in an international context. (OECD Economics Department Working Papers 862). OECD.
  • Battiston, Diego, Dickens, Richard, Manning, Alan, Wadsworth, Jonathan (2014). Immigration and the access to social housing in the UK. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1264). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Caselli, Francesco, Michaels, Guy (2009). Do oil windfalls improve living standards?: evidence from Brazil. (CEP Discussion Paper 960). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Comas-Herrera, Adelina, Wittenberg, Raphael, Pickard, Linda (2003). Making projections of long-term care: examples and methodological issues. (PSSRU Discussion paper 2004). London School of Economics and Political Science and University of Kent.
  • Denti, Daria, Iammarino, Simona (2021). Coming out of the woods. Do local support services influence the propensity to report sexual violence? (Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series 20). Department of Geography and Environment, LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Faguet, Jean-Paul (2021). Understanding decentralization: theory, evidence and method, with a focus on least-developed countries. (Working paper 21-203). International Development, LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Faguet, Jean-Paul, Khan, Qaiser, Kanth, Devarakonda Priyanka (2019). Decentralization's effects on education and health: evidence from Ethiopia. (Social Protection & Jobs 1934). World Bank.
  • Faguet, Jean-Paul, Sánchez, Fabio (2009). Decentralization and access to social services in Colombia. (CLAS Working Paper 26). University of California.
  • Fernández, José-Luis, Padvetnaya, Vivek U. (2011). Report on the evaluation of the costs and benefits of the 'Stronger Together in Warrington' programme. (PSSRU Discussion paper 2822). London School of Economics and Political Science and University of Kent.
  • Gibbons, Stephen, Machin, Stephen, Silva, Olmo (2012). Valuing school quality using boundary discontinuities. (CEE discussion papers CEE DP 132). Centre for the Economics of Education. picture_as_pdf
  • Gibbons, Stephen, Machin, Stephen, Silva, Olmo (2009). Valuing school quality using boundary discontinuities. (SERC discussion papers 18). Spatial Economics Research Centre. picture_as_pdf
  • Gibbons, Stephen, Silva, Olmo (2009). School quality, child wellbeing and parents' satisfaction. (CEE Discussion Papers CEEDP0103). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Gibbons, Stephen, Silva, Olmo, Weinhardt, Felix (2011). Everybody needs good neighbours?: evidence from students' outcomes in England. (IZA discussion paper 5980). Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  • Gortazar, Lucas, Hupkau, Claudia, Roldan-Mones, Antonio (2023). Online tutoring works: experimental evidence from a program with vulnerable children. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1908). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Hancock, Ruth, Wittenberg, Raphael, Hu, Bo, Morciano, Marcella, Comas-Herrera, Adelina (2013). Long-term care funding in England: an analysis of the costs and distributional effects of potential reforms. (PSSRU Discussion Paper series). University of Kent at Canterbury. Personal Social Services Research Unit.
  • Josten, Cecily, Lordan, Grace (2020). The interaction between personality and health policy: empirical evidence from the UK smoking bans. IZA (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit).
  • Kalbfuß, Jörg, Odermatt, Reto, Stutzer, Alois (2018). Medical marijuana laws and mental health in the United States. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1546). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Li, Bingqin, Peng, Huamin (2006). The social protection of rural workers in the construction industry in urban China. (CASEpaper 113). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.
  • Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés, Burlina, Chiara (2020). Institutions and the uneven geography of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series 16). Department of Geography and Environment, LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Xue, Melanie, Zhang, Boxiao (2025). The short- and long-run effect of affirmative action: evidence from Imperial China. (Economic History Working Papers 376). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf