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Big ideas: valuing schooling through house prices
Gibbons, Steve - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
significance for public policy for education, cities and social mobility. …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126243
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Parental investment in childhood and later adult well-being: can more involved parents offset the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage?
Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Parental involvement in their children’s lives can have a lasting impact on well-being. More involved parents convey to … their children that they are interested in their development, and this in turn signals to the child that their future is … Development Study; a longitudinal study of children born in Britain in 1958. Results on a sample of children raised in two parent …
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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
Many cultural products have the same nonrival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical difficulties in creation and dissemination. One traditional view says market failure is endemic: societies tolerate monopolistic inefficiency in intellectual property (IP) protection to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884530
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Martingale conditions for optimal saving: discrete time
Foldes, Lucien - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1978
Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for optimal saving in a stochastic neo-classical one-good world with discrete time. The usual technique of dynamic programming is replaced by classical variational and concavity arguments, modified to take account of conditions of measurability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928732
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The optimal consumption function in a Brownian model of accumulation. Part a: the consumption function as solution of a boundary value problem
Foldes, Lucien - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745818
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The optimal consumption function in a Brownian model of accumulation. Part b: existence of solutions of boundary value problems
Foldes, Lucien - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746297
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The optimal consumption function in a Brownian model of accumulation part b: existence of solutions of boundary value problems
Foldes, Lucien - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
In Part A of the present study, subtitled 'The Consumption Function as Solution of a Boundary Value Problem' Discussion Paper No. TE/96/297, STICERD, London School of Economics, we formulated a Brownian model of accumulation and derived sufficient conditions for optimality of a plan generated by...
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Does relative income matter? Are the critics right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Do other peoples’ incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many decades? The answer to both questions is ‘Yes’....
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The interrelationship between HR, strategy and profitability in service SMEs: empirical evidence from the UK tourism hospitality and leisure sector
Georgiadis, Andreas; Pitelis, Christos N. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
We investigate the strategies, HR attributes and their synergies that are associated with superior performance in service SMEs using data from the UK Tourism Hospitality and Leisure (THL) sector. A major advantage of our analysis is that our sample includes information also on very small firms...
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