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Money for nothing: estimating the impact of student aid on participation in higher education
Dearden, Lorraine; Fitzsimons, Emla; Wyness, Gill - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Understanding how higher education (HE) finance policy can affect HE decisions is important for understanding how governments can promote human capital accumulation. Yet there is a severe lack of evidence on the effectiveness of student aid in encouraging HE participation outside of the US, and...
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Social housing, neighborhood quality and student performance
Weinhardt, Felix - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126243
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To leave or not to leave? A regression discontinuity analysis of the impact of failing the High School exit exam
Ou, Dongshu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
The high school exit exam (HSEE) is rapidly becoming a standardized assessment procedure for educational accountability in the United States. I use a unique state-specific dataset to identify the effect of failing the HSEE on the likelihood that a student drops out early based on a Regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884554
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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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A test between unemployment theories using matching data
Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function … are consistent with previous work in this field, but random matching is formally rejected by the data. The data instead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928750
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Imperfect competition in the labour market
Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
It is increasingly recognized that labour markets are pervasively imperfectly competitive, that there are rents to the employment relationship for both worker and employer. This chapter considers why it is sensible to think of labour markets as imperfectly competitive, reviews estimates on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745736
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Scale effects in markets with search
Petrongolo, B; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Reduced- form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746289
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Scale effects in markets with search
Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, based on aggregate matching functions, may miss important … higher post-unemployment wages but not faster matches, so aggregate matching functions are unaffected by scale. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746460
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Labor search and matching in macroeconomics
Yashiv, Eran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071476
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Cities, matching and the productivity gains of agglomeration
Andersson, Fredrick; Burgess, Simon; Lane, Julia I. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
the role of one of the main contenders - the matching of workers and jobs. Using individual level data for two large US … states we show that thicker urban labour markets are associated with more assortative matching between workers and firms … our data. Putting together the production and matching relationships, we show that production complementarity and …
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