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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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Accounting for intergenerational income persistence: non-cognitive skills, ability and education

Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in the 1970 BCS cohort and also to explore the...

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Access all areas? The impact of fees and background on student demand for postgraduate higher education in the UK

Wales, Philip - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several contributions to the literature. Firstly, it describes trends in postgraduate participation in the UK. Secondly, it introduces a hitherto unavailable dataset of postgraduate tuition fees...

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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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Why are higher skilled workers more mobile geographically?: the role of the job surplus

Amior, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...

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Primary school children’s internet skills: a report on performance tests of operational, formal, information, and strategic internet skills

Van Deursen, Alexander J.A.M.; Görzig, Anke; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …

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Does the use of social networking sites increase children’s risk of harm?

Staksrud, Elisabeth; Ólafsson, Kjartan; Livingstone, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

experiences of online risk among children, the affordances of SNS lend support to this possibility, attracting much policy and … public concern. The present article examines whether the use of such services increases the risks that children and young … people encounter by analyzing data from a random stratified sample of approximately 1000 internet-using children aged 9 …

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