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Houses and schools: valuation of school quality through the housing market: EALE 2010 presidential address

Machin, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper offers a critical appraisal of the now sizable empirical literature that values school quality and performance through housing valuations. This literature consistently finds housing valuations to be significantly higher in places where measured school quality is higher, implying a...

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School participation in rural India

Dreze, Jean; Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper presents an analysis of the determinant of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics. School participation especially among girls, responds to a wide range of variables, including...

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Valuing school quality using boundary discontinuities

Gibbons, Stephen; Machin, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Existing research shows that house prices respond to local school quality as measured by average test scores. However, higher test scores could signal better quality teaching and academic value-added, or higher ability, sought-after intakes. In our research, we show decisively that value-added...

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Numeracy, literacy and earnings: evidence from the national longitudinal survey of youth

Dougherty, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

The analysis is concerned with the contributions of numeracy and literacy to earnings, for three reasons: first, no … clear pattern emerges from existing findings relating to the contributions of different types of ability, and numeracy and … literacy appear to be a natural basic starting point; second, measures to improve numeracy and literacy are often given …

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The value of basic skills in the British labour market

De Coulon, Augustin; Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

returns to having better literacy and numeracy skills. We draw on literacy and numeracy assessments undertaken by all cohort …, including as they do early childhood assessments of ability. We find that the literacy and numeracy effects on earnings are over … Child Development Study cohort and the 1970 British Cohort Study. Our results show that literacy and numeracy skills …

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From the cradle to the labor market? The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself is important or whether it simply reflects other...

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Educational attainment, labour market institutions, and the structure of production

Nickell, Stephen J; Redding, Stephen; Swaffield, Joanna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

A key feature of OECD economic growth since the early 1970s has been the secular decline in manufacturing’s share of GDP and the secular rise of service sectors. This paper examines the role played by relative prices, technology, factor endowments, and labour market institutions in the process...

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The effect of parental wealth on children’s outcomes in early adulthood

Karagiannaki, Eleni - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper presents the first UK estimates of the association between parental wealth during adolescence and a range of children’s outcomes in early adulthood. Parental wealth is positively associated with all outcomes examined (which include educational attainment, employment, earnings and...

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Schools in disadvantaged areas: recognising context and raising quality

Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower in disadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has been focused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring the relationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the quality...

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More than just talk: the framing of transactional sex and its implications for vulnerability to HIV in Lesotho, Madagascar and South Africa

Stoebenau, Kirsten; Nixon, Stephanie A.; Rubincam, Clara; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Background 'Transactional sex' was regarded by the mid-1990s as an important determinant of HIV transmission, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Little attention has been paid to what the terms used to denote transactional sex suggest about how it is understood. This study provides a nuanced...

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