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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...

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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...

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A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

How does measured performance at university affect labor market outcomes? We show that degree class - a coarse measure of student performance used in the UK - causally affects graduates' industry and hence expected wages. To control for unobserved ability, we employ a regression discontinuity...

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Giving a Little Help to Girls? Evidence on Grade Discrimination and its Effect on Students' Achievement

Terrier, Camille - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique dataset containing grades given by teachers, scores obtained anonymously by pupils at different ages, and their course choice during high school. Based on double-differences, the...

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In brief: University exam results matter

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

As thousands of undergraduates across the UK take their exams, a study by Andy Feng and Georg Graetz reveals the importance of the results for subsequent earnings - specifically the value of a First compared with an Upper Second and the difference between an Upper Second and a Lower Second.

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Changes in Earnings Inequality and Mobility in Great Britain 1978/9-2005/6

Dickens, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

This paper examines changes in earnings inequality and mobility between 1978/9 and 2005/6 using a unique dataset that includes both those with secure patterns of employment and a wider group who experience periods without earnings. It finds significant increases in annual earnings inequality for...

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All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...

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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 …. We find that increasing parental education has a positive causal effect on children's outcomes that is evident at age 4 …

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Cross-Generation Correlations of Union Status For Young People in Britain

Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

In this paper we investigate whether young people whose fathers are union members are themselves more likely to join a union. The work builds upon a large social science literature on intergenerational mobility that, to ourknowledge, has not been applied to industrial relations questions. The...

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The Promise of Workplace Training for Non-College Bound Youth: Theory and Evidence from German Apprenticeship

Clark, Damon; Fahr, René - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal' training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...

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