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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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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement?

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

neighborhood on children's educational attainment and then test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that, for …'s involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity. For high-educated parents, we also find that both … and we show that only the quality of the neighborhood has a significant impact on their children's educational attainment. …

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On the Cultural Transmission of Corruption

Hauk, Esther; Sáez-Martí, María - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

We provide a cultural explanation to the phenomenon of corruption in the framework of an overlapping generations model with intergenerational transmission of values. We show that the economy has two steady states with different levels of corruption. The driving force in the equilibrium selection...

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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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Comment on Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-employed Workers

Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez (2005) apply the generalized IV model of Hausman and Taylor to estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several problems which relate to the validity and documentation...

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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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