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Land markets and land market regulation : progress towards understanding

Cheshire, P. C.; Sheppard, Stephen Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

We introduce the papers in this volume and put them into the context of the literature on land use regulation. We then … synthesise and draw some conclusions from existing research on land use regulation and interpret the evidence currently available … use regulation is, compared to regulation in other contexts, significantly neglected. We hope that this special issue …

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Capitalising the value of free schools : the impact of supply characteristics and uncertainty

Cheshire, P. C.; Sheppard, Stephen Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

There has been a growing literature in both the US (for example Haurin and Brasington 1996, and Black 1999) and the UK (for example Gibbons & Machin, 2003) that estimates the way in which school quality is capitalised into house prices. Cheshire and Sheppard 1995 and 1999 estimated hedonic...

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Do rural banks matter? evidence from the Indian social banking experiment

Burgess, Robin; Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Lack of access to finance is often cited as a key reason why poor people remain poor. This paper uses data on the Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirial evidence on this issue. Between 1977 and 1990, the Indian Central Bank mandated that a commercial bank can open a branch in...

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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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Geography of a sports metropolis

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Feddersen, Arne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This study analyzes the sports infrastructure of Hamburg, Germany, from the residents’ perspective. Empirical evidence is provided using a micro-level dataset of 1,319 sports facilities, which is merged with highly disaggre-gated data on population, socio-demographic characteristics and land...

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Gauging the cumbersomeness of EU Law

Chalmers, Damian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

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A new concept of European federalism

Frey, Bruno S. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

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The political economy of inclusive rural growth

Carter, Michael; Morrow, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Abstract Commentators on the `East Asian Miracle' of inclusive growth have often pointed toward shared rural growth policies. But why were these policies not chosen elsewhere? This paper models voters who invest in either subsistence or a complex technology in which public goods complement...

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Mobility and school disruption

Gibbons, Stephen; Telhaj, Shqiponja - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We consider the influence that mobile pupils have on the academic achievements of other pupils in English primary schools. We find that immobile pupils in year-groups (à la US “grades”) that experience high pupil entry rates progress less well academically between ages 8 and 11 than pupils...

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Public-private partnership for the provision of public goods : theory and an application to NGOs

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper analyzes the role of public and private responsibility in the provision of public goods. We emphasize that a typical public good will require many different inputs which raises the possibility of partnerships to exploit comparative advantages of different parties. But hold-up problems...

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