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Education, occupation and career expectations: determinants of the gender pay gap for UK graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
A large proportion of the gender wage gap is usually left unexplained. In this paper, we investigate whether the unexplained component is due to misspecification. Using a sample of recent UK graduates, we introduce variables on career expectations and character traits, variables that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746710
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Quality competition, market structure and endogenous growth
Tong, Jian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
This paper studies the role of quality competition in endogenous growth and institutional factors which can affect growth through affecting quality competition. The R&D-based growth literature as it stands attributes the incentives for innovations to monopolist market structure, and regards the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928601
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745825
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The effect of marital breakup on the income distribution of women with children
Ananat, Elizabeth; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent work has exploited this exogenous variation to measure the effect of divorce on economic outcomes, and has concluded that divorce has little effect on women’s mean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746404
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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?
Sila, Urban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these … effects should differ between people with children and people without children. Public support to families is also expected to … working hours are weak and insignificant. In regressions with time spent caring for children as a dependent variable, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884607
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A question of quality: do children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive lower quality early years education and care in England?
Gambaro, Ludovica; Stewart, Kitty; Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper examines how the quality of formal early childhood education and care is associated with children … Schools Census and the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) dataset on inspections (2010 …-11). The results suggest that children from disadvantaged background have access to better qualified staff. However, services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746383
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Vertical transmission of overweight: evidence from English adoptees
Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Le Grand, Julian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128054
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928813
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Social exclusion and children: a European view for a US debate
Micklewright, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively … little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. Among other things, I … exclusion of children. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast to Europe it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125982
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Selectivity and the gender wage gap decomposition in the presence of a joint decision process
Schafgans, Marcia M. A.; Stelcnery, Morton - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
In this paper we revisit the gender decomposition of wages in the presence of selection bias. We show that when labor market participation decisions of couples are not independent, the sample selection corrections used in the literature have been incomplete (incorrect). We derive the appropriate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745220