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London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

particularly shocking that the sharpest cuts today are those affecting children. …

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Actions to alleviate the mental health impact of the economic crisis

Wahlbeck, Kristian; McDaid, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

The current global economic crisis is expected to produce adverse mental health effects that may increase suicide and alcohol-related death rates in affected countries. In nations with greater social safety nets, the health impacts of the economic downturn may be less pronounced. Research...

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Investing in mental health and well-being: findings from the DataPrev project

McDaid, David; Park, A-La - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

health of their children. Overall 47 studies were identified. There was considerable variability in their quality, with a … and stress management projects (largely in the USA) was reported, while group-based exercise and psychosocial …

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Vertical transmission of overweight: evidence from English adoptees

Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Le Grand, Julian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …

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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 …

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Understanding low achievement in English schools

Kingdon, Geeta; Cassen, Robert - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper seeks to build … correlation with unobserved school and neighborhood quality, i.e. the role of sorting into schools and neighborhoods of different … quality. We suggest a method of calculating school quality (how effective a school is in helping its pupils to avoid low …

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Refinancing Europe’s higher education through deferred and income-contingent fees: an empirical assessment using Belgian, German and UK data

Vandenberghe, Vincent; Debande, O. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

The arguments for refinancing the European Union’s (EU) higher education via higher tuition fees largely rest on preserving the profitability of the educational investment and offering deferred and income-contingent payments. Using income survey datasets on Belgium, Germany and the United...

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Democracy and education spending: has Africa's move to multiparty elections made a difference to policy?

Stasavage, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

While it is generally recognized that electoral competition can have a major influence on public spending decisions, there has been little effort to consider whether the move to multiparty elections in African countries in recent years has led to a redistribution of public expenditures between...

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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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Family income and tertiary education attendance across the EU: an empirical assessment using sibling data

Vandenberghe, Vincent - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

attendance. In this paper we use families with several children to correct for unobserved time-invariant family fixed effects …

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