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

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

funding process when student mobility between schools is limited by land market imperfections, and some aspects of educational …

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Poverty, inequality and mobility in Palanpur: observations from Palanpur

Himanshu, Himanshu; Bakshi, Ishan; Dufour, Camille - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

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The mobility of English school children

Machin, Stephen; Telhaj, Shqiponja; Wilson, Joan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

In this paper we examine links between pupil mobility and pupil and school characteristics at all levels of compulsory … schooling in England. We derive measures of mobility from two academic years of the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC …

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Income dynamics in Germany, the USA and the UK: evidence from panel data

Schluter, Christian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

substantial movements beneath the surface. The US and the UK underwent a process of income polarisation. For the study of mobility …, stochastic kernels are used, because standard approaches based on mobility indices and transition matrices, which group persons … into income classes of arbitrary size, lead to misleading conclusions. The measures attribute greater mobility to Germany …

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Education, equity and social mobility: a summary of three research papers

Utting, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

2014: - Blanden, J. & Macmillan, L. (2014) Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance? CASEpaper …

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New housing supply and the dilution of social capital

Hilber, Christian A. L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper examines the role of local housing market conditions for social capital accumulation and neighborhood club good provision. A model of individual investment decisions predicts that in a setting with high property transaction costs (i) homeowners are more likely to invest in social...

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Social Capital and Public Policy in Greece.

Paraskevopoulos, Christos J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Social capital has emerged as a key concept on the social sciences in general and political science/public policy in particular over the last two decades or so, because, by facilitating collective action among the actors, it leads to increased levels of performance in several public policy areas...

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Membership has its priveleges : the effect of social capital and neighbourhood characteristics on the earnings of microfinance borrowers

Gomez, Rafael; Santor, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper examines the determinants of self-employment success for microcredit borrowers. Theories of social capital and neighbourhood effects are integrated in an attempt to account for earnings differentials amongst a unique sample of microfinance borrowers. The paper posits that social...

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Does envy destroy social fundamentals? The impact of relative income position on social capital

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Torgler, Benno - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, this paper assesses such positional impact on social capital by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We...

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Whence reform? A critique of the Stiglitz perspective

Dabrowski, Marek; Gomulka, Stanislaw; Rostowski, Jacek - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper discusses the key hypotheses which Joseph Stiglitz proposed, in his wide-ranging critique of the ''Washington Consensus'', with regard to transition reforms and economic polices in China and Russia. The primary purpose is to evaluate the Stiglitz perspective in the light of empirical...

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