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Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Early Child Outcomes

Tominey, Emma - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of … mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight … from smoking is explained by unobservable traits of the mother. Smoking tends to reduce birth weight by 1.7%, but has no …

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Football Matches: the Effects on Crime

Marie, Olivier - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

The heavy police presence at football matches in England has reduced hooliganism in the stadium - but at what cost in terms of both policying budgets and under-protected places elsewhere in the neighbourhood? Olivier Marie examines the multiple effects of football matches on crime.

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Police and Thieves in the Stadium: Measuring the (Multiple)Effects of Football Matches on Crime

Marie, Olivier - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

During large sporting events criminal behaviour may be affected via three main channels: (i) fan concentration, (ii) self incapacitation, and (iii) police displacement. In this paper I exploit information on football (soccer) matches for nine London teams linked to detailed recorded crime data...

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Racial Segregation Patterns in Selective Universities

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Hussey, Andrew; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

This paper examines sorting into interracial friendships at selective universities. We show significant friendship segregation, particularly for blacks. Indeed, black friendships are no more diverse in college than in high school despite the colleges blacks attend having substantially smaller...

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Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Presence of Informal Labour Markets

Bosch, Mariano - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

Recessions and policy interventions in labour markets in developing countries are characterized not only by changes in the unemployment rate, but also by changes in the proportion of formal or protected jobs. This reallocation between formal and informal jobs is large and occurs mainly because...

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Eliciting Taxpayer Preferences Increases Tax Compliance

Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De; Lamberton, Cait; Norton, Michael I. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Two experiments show that eliciting taxpayer preferences on government spending—providing taxpayer agency--increases tax compliance. We first create an income and taxation environment in a laboratory setting to test for compliance with a lab tax. Allowing a treatment group to express...

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Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs

Cockburn, Iain; Lanjouw, Jean O.; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries, using newly constructed data on launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries for the period 1983-2002, and information on the duration and content of patent and price control...

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'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

Marie, Olivier; Zölitz, Ulf - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastricht which discriminated legal access based on individuals' nationality. We apply a difference-in-difference approach using...

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Lowering Child Mortality in Poor Countries: The Power of Knowledgeable Parents

Boone, Peter; Zhan, Zhaoguo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

Why do over 20% of children die in some poor countries, while in others only 2% die? We examine this question using survey data covering 278,000 children in 45 low-income countries. We find that parents' education and a mother's propensity to seek out modern healthcare are empirically important...

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Paid Sick Days Don’t Cause Unemployment

Schmitt, John; Rho, Hye Jin; Earle, Alison; Heymann, Jody - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Critics of legislation requiring employers to provide paid sick days frequently argue that these measures will lead to job loss and raise the national unemployment rate. However, this issue brief shows that the experience of 22 countries with the highest level of social and economic development...

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