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Everybody needs good neighbours?
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
There are large disparities between the achievements, behaviour and aspirations of children in different neighbourhoods - but does this mean that the place where you grow up determines your later life outcomes? Steve Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt outline the findings of a series of CEP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738422
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Everybody needs good neighbours?
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
There are large disparities between the achievements, behaviour and aspirations of children in different neighbourhoods - but does this mean that the place where you grow up determines your later life outcomes? Steve Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt outline the findings of a series of CEP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774264
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Education and Health Knowledge: Evidence from UK Compulsory Schooling Reforms
Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945130
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Employment Penalty After Motherhood In Spain
Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
pre-birth job features and education. We find that around 40 percent of Spanish women who were at work one year before … human capital (experience and higher level of education) increases the probability of staying at work. There is evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016846
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Employment After Motherhood: A European Comparison
Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003
lowest rates of staying on in the labour market after childbearing. Higher education is a key explanatory factor of the …), education and part-time employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797292
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The Impact of the Labour Market on the Timing of Marriage and Births in Spain.
Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i.e. high unemployment rates and fixedterm contracts) postpone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967668
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661327
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
we test these predictions on the data. We find that, within the manufacturing sector, immigrants do not compete much with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550423
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Externalities in the Matching of Workers and Firms in Britain
Burgess, Simon; Profit, Stefan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001
We provide empirical evidence on the nature of spatial externalities in a matching model for the UK. We use a monthly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016896
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Benford's Law, Families of Distributions and a Test Basis
Morrow, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Benford's Law is used to test for data irregularities. While novel, there are two weaknesses in the current methodology. First, test values used in practice are too conservative and the test values of this paper are more powerful and hold for fairly small samples. Second, testing requires...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820101