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Disengagement 14-16: context and evidence

Steedman, Hilary; Stoney, Sheila - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper presents an overview of our current state of knowledge regarding poor motivation of 14-16 year old school … intervention programmes to improve motivation. International comparisons (PISA) show UK disengagement below the OECD average but …

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Gender, motivation, experience and wages

Swaffield, Joanna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

motivation, aspirations and constraints are found to have a significant impact on the female wage. Moreover, the impact of time … out of the labour market varies across gender, activity undertaken while out, labour market motivation and the degree of …

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The economic psychology of incentives: an international study of top managers

Pepper, Alexander; Gore, Julie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The world-wide inflation in executive compensation in recent years has been accompanied by an increase in the prevalence of long-term incentives. This article demonstrates how the subjectively perceived value of long-term incentives is affected by risk aversion, uncertainty aversion, and time...

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Behavioral agency theory: new foundations for theorizing about executive compensation

Pepper, Alexander; Gore, Julie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. We argue that behavioral agency theory provides a better framework for theorizing about …

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Medicines in parallel trade in the European Union: a gravity specification

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kanavos, Panos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

While recent research has explored the phenomenon of drug parallel trade in regulated environments such as the European Union (EU), or the European Economic Area, little is known about the mechanisms that explain its origin or the role of the distribution chain in exporting and importing...

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Patents and the global diffusion of new drugs

Cockburn, Iain; Lanjouw, Jean O.; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries, using newly constructed data on launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries for the period 1983-2002, and information on the duration and content of patent and price control...

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Advanced purchase commitments for a malaria vaccine: estimating costs and effectiveness

Berndt, Ernst R.; Glennerster, Rachel; Kremer, Michael R.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

To overcome the problem of insufficient research and development (R&D) on vaccines for diseases concentrated in low-income countries, sponsors could commit to purchase viable vaccines if and when they are developed. One or more sponsors would commit to a minimum price that would be paid per...

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Is medicines parallel trade ‘regulatory arbitrage’?

Costa-i-Font, Joan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

In the European Union, medicines are regulated products subject to both single market (e.g., regional exhaustion of property rights) and country specific health care regulations (e.g., medicines pricing). This gives rise to parallel trade (PT), a phenomenon that takes place when a patented...

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Multiple criteria decision analysis for value based assessment of new medical technologies: a conceptual framework

Kanavos, Panos; Angelis, Aris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Assessing the value of new medical technologies may require new approaches that take into account a more comprehensive set of parameters than the incremental cost/QALY. It is argued that MCDA can fulfil this role and has the potential to be methodologically superior to the currently used...

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One man's rags are another man's riches: identifying adaptive preferences using panel data

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

satisfaction of aspirations or expectations, and if these are affected by the individual’s previous experience of deprivation or … scaling of satisfaction. The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …. This suggests that income is a poor proxy for satisfaction but it does not provide firm evidence for the existence of …

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