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The plausibility of cross-national comparisons of internet use types

Helsper, Ellen; Gerber, Monica M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

and measurement invariance to illustrate why these tests might be important in cross-national comparisons. It was found …

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Ethnic diversity, mobility and school funding: theory and evidence from Kenya

Miguel, Ted - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper explores the relationship between ethnic diversity and local school funding in Kenyan primary schools. The empirical results paint a picture of pervasive local collective action problems in ethnically diverse Kenyan primary schools. Local ethnic diversity is robustly associated with...

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Offline social identity and online chat partner selection

Helsper, Ellen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This study examines whether the impact of offline identities on computer-mediated communication is stable across different social contexts or whether it depends on which identity aspect is salient. Field experiments with 206 teenagers tested the influence of gendered, ethnic, youth and...

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Do inventors talk to strangers? on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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Complaints and inequality

Cowell, Frank; Ebert, Udo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important … axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a new class of inequality indices and an inequality ordering. This class … of indices has a family relationship to well-known measures of inequality, deprivation and poverty. The ordering is shown …

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The subjective approach to the measurement of income inequality

Amiel, Yoram - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

Inequality measurement involves explicit or implicit value judgements. The subjective approach to inequality … measurement is a relatively new and fast-developing area which focueses direct attention on these judgements. It is 'subjective …

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Growth and inequality: a demographic explanation

Miyazawa, Kazutoshi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … inequality is at first positive and then may be negative in the process of population aging. The results are consistent with the …

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Empirics for growth and distribution

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an \emerging twin peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution,...

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Inequality: measurement

Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and has been prepared for inclusion …

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A note on the estimation of intergenerational income correlations by the method of averaging

Abul Naga, Ramses H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

. The Solon/Zimmerman estimator regresses a single-year measurement of the child's resources on a T-period average of the … the Solon/Zimmerman methodology. However, because sampling variation produces yearly changes in the variance of children …

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