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Early, Late or Never? When Does Parental Education Impact Child Outcomes?
Dickson, Matt; Gregg, Paul; Robinson, Harriet - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity of parental education is addressed by exploiting the exogenous shift in education levels induced by the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) from age 15 to 16 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945139
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Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain
Blanden, Jo; Goodman, Alissa; Gregg, Paul; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
This paper compares and contrasts estimates of the extent of intergenerational income mobility over time in Britain. Estimates based on two British birth cohorts show that mobility appears to have fallen in a cross-cohort comparison of people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s (the 1958 birth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016751
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Upward Social Mobility, Well-being and Political Preferences: Evidence from the BHPS
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Angelo, Emanuela - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
The paper uses 18 waves of BHPS data to provide evidence of the roles of both own social status and upward mobility relative to one's parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro-public sector attitudes and voting. Both own social status and greater mobility with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722843
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Incentives and Invention in Universities
Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
Using data on U.S. universities, we show that universities that give higher royalty shares to faculty scientists generate greater license income, controlling for university size, academic quality, research funding and other factors. We use pre-sample data on university patenting to control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016813
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Internationalization and Innovation of Firms: Evidence and Policy
Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France …-level characteristics across countries and sectors. We also find that the positive correlation between internationalization and innovation … internationalization goes beyond export and because, in the medium-to-long term, internationalization is driven by innovation. We recommend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010759887
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655943
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In brief: Two cheers for Anglo-Saxon financial markets?
Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549053
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How Does Innovation Affect Worker Well-being?
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation - a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476321
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Innovation and Institutional Ownership
Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670440
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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the .revealed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670637