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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...

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Everybody needs good neighbours?

Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

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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 …

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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...

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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. …

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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 …

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Fees and loathing: higher education finance and university participation

Wyness, Gill - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

With the UK's cap on tuition fees due to rise to £9,000, Gill Wyness looks at the impact of past fee increases on young people's decisions to go to university.

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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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The Marginal Income Effect of Education on Happiness: Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Well-Being in Australia

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Wooden, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Many economists and educators favour public support for education on the premise that education improves the overall … well-being of citizens. However, little is known about the causal pathways through which education shapes people …

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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 use the extra fees from overseas students to...

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