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Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis

Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men …

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Back to baseline in Britain: adaptation in the British household panel survey

Clark, Andrew E.; Georgellis, Yannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment …

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Primary Education and Fertility Rates in Southern Africa: Evidence from Before the Demographic Transition

Bittencourt, Manoel - Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and … - 2014

-off quantity for quality of children. The results are important not only because lower fertility, caused by education, implies more …We investigate whether primary school completion has played any role on total fertility rates in all fifteen members of …, suggests that primary education has indeed reduced fertility rates in the region, or that the community is already trading …

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Education and Fertility: Panel Time-Series Evidence from Southern Africa

Bittencourt, Manoel - Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and … - 2014

for quality of children. The results are important not only because lower fertility, caused by education, implies more …In this paper we investigate whether secondary school enrolment has played any role on total fertility rates in all … suggest that education has indeed reduced fertility rates in the region, or that the community is already trading-off quantity …

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School participation in rural India

Dreze, Jean; Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper presents an analysis of the determinant of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics. School participation especially among girls, responds to a wide range of variables, including...

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Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods

Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales. We find that educational composition of the larger neighbourhood can influence the dropout...

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Social housing, neighborhood quality and student performance

Weinhardt, Felix - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal …

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Do large departments make academics more productive? agglomeration and peer effects in research

Bosquet, Clément; Combes, Pierre-Philippe - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We study the effect of a large set of department characteristics on individual publication records. We control for many individual time-varying characteristics, individual fixed-effects and reverse causality. Department characteristics have an explanatory power that can be as high as that of...

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Distance, skill deepening and development : will peripheral countries ever get rich?

Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper models the relationship between countries' distance from global economic activity, endogenous investments in education and economic development. Firms in remote locations pay greater trade costs on both exports and intermediate imports, reducing the amount of value added left to...

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