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Peer effects in science: evidence from the dismissal of scientists in Nazi Germany

Waldinger, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper analyzes peer effects among university scientists. Specifically, it investigates whether the number of peers and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual endogeneity problems related to estimating peer effects are...

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Parental investment in childhood and later adult well-being: can more involved parents offset the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage?

Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Parental involvement in their children’s lives can have a lasting impact on well-being. More involved parents convey to their children that they are interested in their development, and this in turn signals to the child that their future is valued. However, what happens in socio-economically...

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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and early child outcomes

Tominey, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of … mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight … from smoking is explained by unobservable traits of the mother. Smoking tends to reduce birth weight by 1.7%, but has no …

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A quantitative and qualitative test of the Allais paradox using health outcomes

Oliver, Adam - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

There have been many tests of the descriptive validity of the axioms of expected utility theory (EU) using money outcomes. Such tests are relatively uncommon with respect to health outcomes. This is unfortunate, because the standard gamble - considered by many health economists to be the gold...

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Medicines in parallel trade in the European Union: a gravity specification

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kanavos, Panos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

While recent research has explored the phenomenon of drug parallel trade in regulated environments such as the European Union (EU), or the European Economic Area, little is known about the mechanisms that explain its origin or the role of the distribution chain in exporting and importing...

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Resilience to economic shocks and the long reach of childhood bullying

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper investigates whether people’s ability to withstand and adapt to one of the most important economic shocks – job loss – is determined early on in childhood. Using nationally representative longitudinal data that tracks almost 3,000 children into adulthood, we show that the...

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A map of mental health

Smithies, Rachel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper provides a comprehensive picture of mental health services in England, includingstaffing and expenditure, and the number of people in need and the number treated.Historically, this information has been split across sub-sections of the health and socialservices; and the readily...

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HIV prevalence and sexual behaviour at older ages in rural Malawi

Freeman, Emily; Anglewicz, Philip - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Research on HIV infection and sexual behaviour in sub-Saharan Africa typically focuses on individuals aged 15–49 years, under the assumption that both become less relevant for older individuals. We test this assumption using data from rural Malawi to compare sexual behaviour and HIV infection...

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Biomarkers and long-term labour market outcomes: the case of creatine

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Hakulinen, Christian; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

I evaluate the impact of the UK Working Time Regulations 1998, which introduced mandatory paid holiday entitlement. The regulation gave (nearly) all workers the right to a minimum of 4 weeks of paid holiday per a year. With constant weekly pay this change amounts effectively to an increase in...

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To join or not to join? Factors influencing employee share plan membership in a multinational corporation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidizethe price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a newsurvey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerablevariation in joining among...

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