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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 …, Health, Housing, Income Maintenance and Social Security and Personal Social Services. The paper systematically explores who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744869
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The changing architecture of the UK welfare state
Hills, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This article looks at the way in which the role of the state has evolved within different aspects of welfare activity (broadly defined) in the United Kingdom since 1979 and forward to the possible impacts of the plans of the Coalition government that took office in 2010 for changing that role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745960
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Education and health knowledge: evidence from UK compulsory schooling reforms
Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index … due to the education reforms did not significantly affect health knowledge: a one-year increase in schooling is estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126452
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The relative economic importance of academic, psychological and behavioural attributes developed on childhood
Feinstein, Leon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
returns to education are not significantly reduced by this omission bias but there is evidence of substantial returns to the … children from low SES groups. The implications of these results for education are developed. Parental attitudes are much more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745937
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Access all areas? The impact of fees and background on student demand for postgraduate higher education in the UK
Wales, Philip - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126604
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928638
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928724
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928741
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928787
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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 … absorb new health-related information. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) controversy provides a case where, for a short … a positive education gradient into a negative one. We also consider the response in terms of uptake of other childhood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744842