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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 …-dimensional process. Age ten conduct disorder predicts male adult unemployment particularly well but it is self-esteem that predicts male … children from low SES groups. The implications of these results for education are developed. Parental attitudes are much more …

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The impact of uncertainty shocks: firm level estimation and a 9/11 simulation

Bloom, Nick - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Uncertainty appears to vary strongly over time, temporarily rising by up to 200% around major shocks like the Cuban Missile crisis, the assassination of JFK and 9/11. This paper offers the first structural framework to analyze uncertainty shocks. I build a model with a time varying second...

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Is Poland the next Spain?

Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … reallocation of labor from agriculture to manufacturing and services, which have higher capital intensity and use resources more …

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From Russia with love: the impact of relocated firms on incumbent survival

Falck, Oliver; Guenther, Christina; Heblich, Stephan; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...

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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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