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Peer Effects in Science - Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazi Germany
Waldinger, Fabian - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
dataset covering the universe of physicists, chemists, and mathematicians at all German universities from 1925 until 1938 I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151079
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The Impact of Private Ownership, Incentives and Local Development Objectives on University Technology Transfer Performance
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together … with panel data on U.S. universities for 1995-99. We find that private universities are much more likely to adopt incentive …. Adopting incentive pay is associated with about 30-40 percent more income per license. Universities with strong local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005220060
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Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction & Student Performance
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Murphy, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of schools banning mobile phones on student test scores. By surveying schools in four English cities regarding their mobile phone policies and combining it with administrative data, we find that student performance in high stakes exams significantly increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274524
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The Evolution of Inequality in Productivity and Wages: Panel Data Evidence
Faggio, Giulia; Salvanes, Kjell; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
There has been a remarkable increase in wage inequality in the US, UK and many other countries over the past three decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as age-gender-skill cells). A generally untested implication of many theories rationalizing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151033
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Overseas students: the impact on domestic student numbers
Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
The rapid influx of international students into UK universities over the past two decades has expanded the number of … places available for domestic postgraduates, according to research by Stephen Machin and Richard Murphy. Universities seem to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933774
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Paying Out and Crowding Out? The Globalisation of Higher Education
Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
We investigate the rapid influx of overseas students into UK higher education and the impact on the number of domestic students. Using administrative data since 1994/5, we find no evidence of crowd out of domestic undergraduate students and indications of increases in the domestic numbers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945144
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The Minimum Wage and Inequality - The Effects of Education and Technology
Bárány, Zsófia L. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
flow into R&D, thereby decreasing the skill-bias of technology. The reduction in the minimum wage has spill-over effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293675
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Wage Inequality,Technology and Trade: 21st Century Evidence
Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
good fraction of this inequality growth is due to technology-related increases in the demand for skilled workers … clerks, leaving the demand for the lowest skilled service tasks largely unaffected. Finally, I argue that technology is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700450
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Changes in Wage Inequality
Machin, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
We examine trends in wage inequality in the US and other countries over the past four decades. We show that there has been a secular increase in the 90-50 wage differential in the US and the UK since the late 1970s. By contrast the 50-10 differential rose mainly in the 1980s and flattened or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702089
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Victorian internet: the trade impact of the transatlantic telegraph
Steinwender, Claudia - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
such unique historical 'experiments' helps understand how firms and markets respond when new technology leads to a dramatic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765687