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Quality matters: the expulsion of professors and Ph.D. student outcomes in Nazi Germany
Waldinger, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
I investigate the effect of faculty quality on Ph.D. student outcomes. To address the endogeneity of faculty quality I … use exogenous variation provided by the expulsion of mathematics professors in Nazi Germany. I find that faculty quality … faculty quality increases the probability of publishing the dissertation in a top journal by 13 percentage points, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884722
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A question of degree: the effects of degree class on labor market outcomes
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
In this paper we estimate the sorting effects of university degree class on initial labor market outcomes using a regression discontinuity design that exploits institutional rules governing the award of degrees. Consistent with anecdotal evidence, we find sizeable and significant effects for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745115
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Over-education and the skills of UK graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud; Lindley, Joanne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by combining occupation codes and a self-reported measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745327
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Is there an impact of household computer ownership on children's educational attainment in Britain?
Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
If personal computers (PCs) are used to enhance learning and information gathering across a variety of subjects, then a home computer might reasonably be considered an input in an educational production function. Using data on British youths from the British Household Panel Survey between 1991...
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Access all areas? The impact of fees and background on student demand for postgraduate higher education in the UK
Wales, Philip - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several contributions to the literature. Firstly, it describes trends in postgraduate participation in the UK. Secondly, it introduces a hitherto unavailable dataset of postgraduate tuition fees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126604
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071223
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Intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain: a comparative study of parent-child pathways
Blanden, Jo; Haveman, Robert; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We build on cross-national research to examine the relationships underlying estimates of relative intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain using harmonized longitudinal data and focusing on men. We examine several pathways by which parental status is related to offspring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240196
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928638
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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
(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 models in which the quality of the secondary school to which a household … was assigned was a significant variable which provided evidence that secondary school quality was being capitalised into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928693
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Are schools drifting apart? Intake stratification in English secondary schools
Gibbons, Stephen; Telhaj, Shqiponja - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
The issue of social segregation in schools has seen a recent resurgence of interest – in the US, UK and internationally – as the debate rages on about whether policies that expand families’ freedom to choose amongst schools encourage divergence or convergence in the types of pupil...
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