Determinants of current contraceptive use and method choice in Mongolia (2007)
Gereltuya, Altankhuyagiin, Falkingham, Jane, Brown, James John
This study examines the determinants of current contraceptive use and method choice in Mongolia using data from the 1998 Mongolian Reproductive Health Survey and 2000 Mongolian Population and Housing...
Child Poverty in Tajikistan (2007)
Baschieri, Angela, Falkingham, Jane
This report presents empirical analysis of the Tajikistan Living Standards Survey 2003 and the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2005 in Tajikistan to assess the living conditions and...
Determinants of current contraceptive use and method choice in Mongolia (2007)
Altankhuyagiin, Gereltuya, Falkingham, Jane, Brown, James
This study examines the determinants of current contraceptive use and method choice in Mongolia using data from the 1998 Mongolian Reproductive Health Survey and 2000 Mongolian Population and Housing...
The Profile of Poverty in Tajikistan: an update 1999 to 2003 (2006)
Falkingham, Jane, Klytchnikova, Irina
Tajikistan is one of the poorest countries in the world and ranks 113th among 175 countries according to the UNDP’s Human Development Report 2003. This paper uses data from the Tajikistan Living...
Demographic aspects of population ageing (2006)
Falkingham, Jane, Grundy, Emily
It is well known that the population is ageing but the implications for policy, and the statistics needed to inform policy, are the subject of current discussion amongst demographers. In June 2006...
Staying in school: assessing the role of access, availability and cost (2006)
Baschieri, Angela, Falkingham, Jane
This paper investigates the role of contextual factors outside the household in determining whether or not a child attends basic education in Tajikistan. By combining data from the Tajikistan Living...
Developing a poverty map of Tajikistan: a technical note (2005)
Baschieri, Angela, Falkingham, Jane
'Poverty maps', that is graphic representations of spatially disaggregated estimates of welfare, are being increasingly used to geographically target scare resources. The development of detailed...
Falkingham, Jane, Baschieri, Angela
Using the 2003 Tajikistan Living Standard Survey this paper looks at the relationship between gender and poverty and show how, by modifying the equal sharing assumption of the household resources, we...
The end of the rollercoaster? Growth, inequality and poverty in Central Asia and the Caucasus (2005)
This paper examines the impact of a decade of transition on living standards and welfare in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Following independence in 1991 all countries suffered a sharp decline in GDP...
Creating a poverty map for Azerbaijan (2005)
Falkingham, Jane, Baschieri, Angela, Hornby, Duncan, Hutton, Craig
"Poverty maps"-that is, graphic representations of spatially disaggregated estimates of welfare-are being increasingly used to geographically target scarce resources. But the development of detailed...
Falkingham, Jane, Baschieri, Angela
In 2000, the Asian Development Bank sponsored an in-depth study of gender relations in Tajikistan (Falkingham, 2000). Whilst much of that analysis remains valid, there have been significant...
Children in transition: child poverty in The Kyrgyz Republic (2004)
Falkingham, Jane, Ibragimova, Shamsia
This paper examines trends in the prevalence and severity of child poverty in the Kyrgyz Republic since the mid 1990s. Poverty is a multi-dimensional phenomenon and trends in both monetary poverty,...
Creating a poverty map for Azerbaijan (2004)
Baschieri, Angela, Falkingham, Jane
'Poverty maps' - graphic representations of spatially disaggregated estimates of welfare - are increasingly used to geographically target scare resources. But their development in many low resource...
Inequality and Poverty in the CIS-7, 1989-2002 (2003)
This paper examines the impact of a decade of transition on the living standards of people living in seven of the poorest Republics of the former Soviet Union – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia,...
Poverty and access to maternal health care in Tajikistan (2003)
Using recently available survey data for Tajikistan, this paper investigates changes in the pattern of maternal health care over the last decade, and the extent to which inequalities in access to...
Winners and losers: the expansion of health insurance coverage in Russia in the 1990s (2003)
Balabanova, Dina C., Falkingham, Jane, McKee, Martin
Objectives. This study sought to describe the evolution of the Russian compulsory health insurance system and to identify factors associated with noncoverage. Methods. Data from successive waves of...
Inequality and changes in women's use of maternal health-care services in Tajikstan (2003)
Using recently available survey data for Tajikistan, this study explores changes in the pattern of maternal health care during the last decade and the extent to which inequalities in access to that...
Measuring health and poverty: a review of approaches to identifying the poor (2002)
Falkingham, Jane, Namazie, Ceema
Poverty reduction is now the overarching objective of the international donor community. In 2000, world leaders issued the Millennium Declaration, setting out eight Millennium Development Goals...
Fertility transition in communist Albania 1950-1990 (2001)
Falkingham, Jane, Gjonca, Arjan
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, Albania had the highest fertility in Europe with an average of more than six live births per woman. However when Albania emerged from behind the 'olive...
Going Into residential care: evidence from the BHPS 1991-1998 (2001)
Scott, Anne, Evandrou, Maria, Falkingham, Jane, Rake, Katherine
This paper examines rates of moving into an institution after age 65, using data from waves 1-8 of the British Household Panel Survey. The mean rate of entry is 0.95% per annum. The rates rise with...
The dynamics of living arrangements in later life: preliminary findings (2001)
Evandrou, Maria, Falkingham, Jane, Rake, Katherine, Scott, Anne
Living arrangements are a key dimension of quality of life and well being in old age. Availability of family care, as well as social and economic support, are in part a function of whom you live...
Income mobility in later life (2001)
Zaidi, Asghar, Rake, Katherine, Falkingham, Jane
Most existing analyses of the incomes of the older population have overlooked the dynamics of later life or the process of ageing itself. Yet, income dynamics post-retirement is of growing policy...
SAGE: simulating social policy in an ageing society (2001)
Evandrou, Maria, Falkingham, Jane, Johnson, Paul, Rake, Katherine
This paper is an edited version of the original application submitted to the ESRC in February 1998 under the Future of Social Policy Initiative. The SAGE Research Group (Simulating Social Policy in...
A profile of poverty in Tajikistan (2000)
This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remote and poorest of the independent states of the Former Soviet Union. Data is used from the first nationally representative...
A profile of poverty in Tajikistan (2000)
This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remote and poorest of the independent states of the Former Soviet Union. Data is used from the first nationally representative...
Women and gender relations in Tajikistan (2000)
At Independence in 1991, Tajikistan was the poorest of all the Soviet Republics, with a GDP per capita of just over $2,000. Despite this, the country had relatively high human development indicators,...
From security to uncertainty: The impact of economic change on child welfare in Central Asia (2000)
This paper discusses the possible pathways between macroeconomic change and child welfare and develops a typology of the risks that children may face at different stages of the lifecycle. Adopting a...
A profile of poverty in Tajikistan (2000)
This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remote and poorest of the independent states of the Former Soviet Union. Data is used from the first nationally representative...
Partnership in pensions: responses to the pensions Green Paper (1999)
Agulnik, Phil, Bar, Nicholas, Falkingham, Jane, Rake, Katherine
The government's pensions Green Paper 'a new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions' proposes fundamental changes to the UK's retirement income system. Members of CASE and the Department of...
Tightropes and tripwires: New Labour's proposals and means-testing in old age (1999)
Evans, Martin, Rake, Katherine, Falkingham, Jane
This paper analyses the Government's proposals contained in A New Contract for Welfare: Partnership in Pensions. It examines the position of low paid workers and the potential of the proposals to...
Partnership in pensions? Responses to the pensions green paper (1999)
Agulnik, Philip, Barr, Nicholas, Falkingham, Jane, Rake, Katherine
The government’s pensions Green Paper – A new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions – proposes fundamental changes to the UK’s retirement income system. Members of CASE and of the...
Tightropes and tripwires: new Labour's proposals and means-testing in old age (1999)
Rake, Katherine, Falkingham, Jane, Evans, Martin
This paper analyses the Government's proposals contained in A New Contract for Welfare: Partnership in Pensions. It examines the position of low paid workers and the potential of the proposals to...
Partnership in pensions? Responses to the pensions green paper (1999)
Agulnik, Philip, Barr, Nicholas, Falkingham, Jane, Rake, Katherine
The government’s pensions Green Paper – A new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions – proposes fundamental changes to the UK’s retirement income system. Members of CASE and of the...
Tightropes and tripwires: new Labour's proposals and means-testing in old age (1999)
Rake, Katherine, Falkingham, Jane, Evans, Martin
This paper analyses the Government's proposals contained in A New Contract for Welfare: Partnership in Pensions. It examines the position of low paid workers and the potential of the proposals to...
Welfare in transition: trends in poverty and well-being in Central Asia (1999)
This paper examines the impact of the transition on living standards and welfare in the five Republics of former Soviet Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan,...
Welfare in transition: trends in poverty and well-being in central Asia (1999)
This paper examines the impact of the transition on living standards and welfare in the five Republics of former Soviet Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan,...
Welfare in transition: trends in poverty and well-being in central Asia (1999)
This paper examines the impact of the transition on living standards and welfare in the five Republics of former Soviet Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan,...
Partnership in pensions? : responses to the pensions green paper (1999)
Agulnik, Phil, Barr, Nicholas, Falkingham, Jane, Rake, Katherine
In July 1997 Harriet Harman, the new Secretary of State for Social Security in the UK, announced a fundamental and wide-ranging review of all aspects of pension provision. The review comes at a time...
Paradoxes of health transition in Europe's poorest country: Albania 1950-90 (1997)
Gjonca, Arjan, Wilson, Chris, Falkingham, Jane
Scholars interested in the ways in which good health, as measured by levels of mortality, can be achieved at low cost have paid considerable attention to countries and regions in Asia and Latin...
The dynamic of welfare: the welfare state and the life cycle (1995)
This study is based on recent work by the Welfare State Programming at the London School of Economics on the impact of the welfare state as a means of redistributing incomes not only between...
Welfare benefits in kind and income distribution (1993)
Evandrou, Maria, Falkingham, Jane, Hills, John, Le Grand, Julian
Welfare benefits in kind and income distribution (1993)
Evandrou, Maria, Falkingham, Jane, Hills, John, Le Grand, Julian
Equity in health and social care (1992)
Evandrou, Maria, Falkingham, Jane, Le Grand, Julian, Winter, David
The distribution of welfare benefits in kind (1992)
Evandrou, Maria, Falkingham, Jane, Hills, John, Le Grand, Julian
Equity in health and social care (1992)
Evandrou, Maria, Falkingham, Jane, Le Grand, Julian, Winter, David
The distribution of welfare benefits in kind (1992)
Evandrou, Maria, Falkingham, Jane, Hills, John, Le Grand, Julian
The life cycle distributional consequence of pay-as-you-go and funded pension systems
Falkingham, Jane, Johnson, Paul
Using a dynamic cohort microsimulation model (LIFEMOD), the authors examine the life-cycle distributional consequences of a variety of pay-as-you-go (PAYG) and funded pension systems. This technique...
Intergenerational Transfers and Public Expenditure on the Elderly in Modern Britain
Recent research in the United States and New Zealand has suggested that over the last two decades the age profile of well-being has shifted against children and in favor of the elderly population....
Winners and Losers: Expansion of Insurance Coverage in Russia in the 1990s
Balabanova, Dina C., Falkingham, Jane, McKee, Martin
Objectives. This study sought to describe the evolution of the Russian compulsory health insurance system and to identify factors associated with noncoverage.
Welfare benefits in kind and income distribution
Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham, John Hills, Julian Le Grand
This article explores the value to households in different income groups of benefits from public spending on education, the National Health Service and subsidies to local authority housing. Its...
Winners and Losers: Expansion of Insurance Coverage in Russia in the 1990s
Balabanova, Dina C., Falkingham, Jane, McKee, Martin
Objectives. This study sought to describe the evolution of the Russian compulsory health insurance system and to identify factors associated with noncoverage.
From Security to Uncertainty: the Impact of Economic Change on Child Welfare in Central Asia
This paper discusses the possible pathways between macroeconomic change and child welfare and develops a typology of the risks that children may face at different stages of the lifecycle. Adopting a...
Creating a Poverty Map for Azerbaijan
Baschieri, Angela, Falkingham, Jane, Hornby, Duncan, Hutton, Craig
"Poverty maps"-that is, graphic representations of spatially disaggregated estimates of welfare-are being increasingly used to geographically target scarce resources. But the development of detailed...
Partnership in Pensions? Responses to the Pensions Green Paper
Phil Agulnik, Nicholas Barr, Jane Falkingham, Katherine Rake
The government's pensions Green Paper 'a new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions' proposes fundamental changes to the UK's retirement income system. Members of CASE and the Department of...
Tightropes and Tripwires: New Labours Proposals and Means-testing in Old Age
Martin Evans, Jane Falkingham, Katherine Rake
This paper analyses the Government's proposals contained in A New Contract for Welfare: Partnership in Pensions. It examines the position of low paid workers and the potential of the proposals to...
Welfare in Transition: Trends in Poverty and Well-being in Central Asia
This paper examines the impact of the transition on living standards and welfare in the five Republics of former Soviet Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan,...
A Profile of Poverty in Tajikistan
This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remote and poorest of the independent states of the Former Soviet Union. Data is used from the first nationally representative...