Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 76
Cover Image
The Importance of Rank Position
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
impact of local rank, we use a large administrative dataset tracking over two million students in England from primary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692131
Cover Image
In brief...Top of the class
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
Boys may be better off not going to the school with high-performing peers, according to research by Richard Murphy and Felix Weinhardt, which explores how much impact there is on later confidence and exam results from where a child ranks in primary school. They find that being ranked in the top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721421
Cover Image
Peer Effects in Science - Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazi Germany
Waldinger, Fabian - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
This paper analyzes peer effects among university scientists. Specifically, it investigates whether the number of peers and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual endogeneity problems related to estimating peer effects are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151079
Cover Image
The Allocation of Talent over the Business Cycle and its Effect on Sectoral Productivity
Boehm, Michael; Watzinger, Martin - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
It is well documented that graduates enter different occupations in recessions than in booms. In this article, we examine the impact of this reallocation for long-term productivity and output across sectors. We develop a model in which talent flows to stable sectors in recessions and to cyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547597
Cover Image
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147095
Cover Image
Why Are Migrants Paid More?
Bryson, Alex; Rossi, Giambattista; Simmons, Rob - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
In efficient global labour markets for very high wage workers one might expect wage differentials between migrant and domestic workers to reflect differences in labour productivity. However, using panel data on worker-firm matches in a single industry over a seven year period we find a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535361
Cover Image
Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes
Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There … to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map out the correlation between school sports and adult labour …-market outcomes. We show that different types of school sports are associated with different types of jobs and labour-market insertion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722842
Cover Image
Wishful Thinking
Mayraz, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
An experiment tested whether and in what circumstances people are more likely to believe an event simply because it makes them better off. Subjects observed a financial asset's historical price chart, and received both an accuracy bonus for predicting the price at some future point, and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368962
Cover Image
Priors and Desires
Mayraz, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
This paper offers a simple but powerful model of wishful thinking, cognitive dissonance, and related biases. Choices maximize subjective expected utility, but beliefs depend on the decision maker's interests as well as on relevant information. Simplifying assumptions yield a representation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854562
Cover Image
Neighbors, Knowledge, and Nuggets: Two Natural Field Experiments on the Role of Incentives on Energy Conservation
Dolan, Paul; Metcalfe, Robert - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
There is increasing research on the exogenous impact of descriptive social norms on economic behavior. The research to date has a number of limitations: 1) it has not de-coupled the impact of the norm and the knowledge required to understand how to change behavior based upon it; 2) it has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662749