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Fertility, education and development: further evidence from India

Dreze, Jean; Murthi, Mamta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

There has been a significant decline in fertility in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This paper reexamines … the determinants of fertility levels and fertility decline, using panel data on Indian districts for 1981 and 1991. We … find that women's education is the most important factor explaining fertility differences across the country and over time …

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Accounting for intergenerational income persistence: non-cognitive skills, ability and education

Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in the 1970 BCS cohort and also to explore the...

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The returns to occupation-specific human capital - Evidence from mobility after training

Mueller, Barbara; Schweri, Juerg - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012

Using a longitudinal dataset based on the PISA 2000 survey, we analyze the effect of inter-firm and occupational mobility on post-training wages in Switzerland to assess the transferability of the human capital acquired in training. We show that OLS provides a lower bound estimate of the wage...

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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...

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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

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Cross-generation correlations of union status for young people in Britain

Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper investigates whether young people whose fathers are union members are themselves more likely to join a union. We find that young people with unionized fathers are twice as likely to be unionized as those with non-union fathers and that this rises to three times higher for those whose...

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Cross-generation correlations of union status for young people in Britain

Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

the formative years passes on positive knowledge about unions to children of unionized parents making them more likely to …

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School participation in rural India

Dreze, Jean; Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper presents an analysis of the determinant of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics. School participation especially among girls, responds to a wide range of variables, including...

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Intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain: a comparative study of parent-child pathways

Blanden, Jo; Haveman, Robert; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We build on cross-national research to examine the relationships underlying estimates of relative intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain using harmonized longitudinal data and focusing on men. We examine several pathways by which parental status is related to offspring...

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The consequences of being different – Statistical discrimination and the school-to-work transition

Mueller, Barbara; Wolter, Stefan C. - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011

When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. But statistical discrimination can induce costs, if labor relations cannot be terminated in the...

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