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Schooling, nation building and industrialization: a Gellnerian approach

Hauk, Esther; Ortega, Javier - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises … productivity, particularly for matches between masses and bourgeois. At the same time, only country-wide education ("unified … education") or the regionally dominant group can choose to implement schooling in its own region but refuse to share the costs …

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Barriers and the transition to modern growth

Ngai, L. Rachel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper studies how differences in the size of barriers to capital accumulation can account for differences in long run economic development paths. In this model barriers affect both the beginning date and the pace of the modern economic growth. A fundamental property of the model is that...

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Pay for performance where output is hard to measure: the case of performance pay for school teachers

Marsden, David; Belfield, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting performance reviews. Experienced teachers were...

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Wage differentials in Japan: 1958-85

Morishima, Michio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

The market is a place where people behave quite relentlessly. If one person is selling a particular commodity at a higher price than others, no one will buy that commodity from him, however virtuous or merciful he is known to be. Of course, the actual world does not always work exactly in this...

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Decentralization’s effects on educational outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia

Faguet, Jean-Paul; Sanchez, Fabio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

education outcomes. In Colombia, decentralization of education finance improved enrollment rates in public schools. In Bolivia …

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Ethnic diversity, mobility and school funding: theory and evidence from Kenya

Miguel, Ted - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper explores the relationship between ethnic diversity and local school funding in Kenyan primary schools. The empirical results paint a picture of pervasive local collective action problems in ethnically diverse Kenyan primary schools. Local ethnic diversity is robustly associated with...

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Anatomy of a health scare: education, income and the MMR controversy in the UK

Anderberg, Dan; Chevalier, Arnaud; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly … a positive education gradient into a negative one. We also consider the response in terms of uptake of other childhood …

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The shifting balance of private and public welfare activity in the United Kingdom, 1979 to 2007

Edmiston, Daniel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

updating the existing evidence with a snapshot of the welfare mix in 2007/2008 across five different welfare sectors: Education …

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Employment after motherhood: a European comparison

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

lowest rates of staying on in the labour market after childbearing. Higher education is a key explanatory factor of the …), education and part-time employment. …

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The economic situation of first- and second-generation immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …

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