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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?

Sila, Urban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

It has been suggested in the literature that taxes and subsidies play an important role in explaining the differences in working hours across countries. In this paper I test whether public programmes for family support play a role in explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies:...

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A question of quality: do children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive lower quality early years education and care in England?

Gambaro, Ludovica; Stewart, Kitty; Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper examines how the quality of formal early childhood education and care is associated with children’s background. By using different indicators of quality, the research also explored how the relationship varies depending on the way quality is measured. The analysis combines...

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Family-friendly working: what a performance! An analysis of the relationship between the availability of family-friendly policies and establishment performance

Gray, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper uses the Management and Employee Questionnaires from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) to consider whether the performance of workplaces which offer a range of family-friendly policies are superior to that of workplaces without such practices. It is found that in...

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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and early child outcomes

Tominey, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight … heterogeneity in the effect on birth weight, it is mothers who smoke for the 9 months of gestation that suffer the harm, whereas … there is an insignificant effect for mothers who chose to quit by month 5. Additionally, there is evidence of potential …

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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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Medium and long run prospects for UK growth in the aftermath of the financial crisis

Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

In this paper I argue that the financial crisis is likely to have a long term impact on the level of labour productivity in the UK while leaving the long run growth rate unaffected. Based entirely on pre-crisis data, and using a two-sector growth model, I project the future growth rate of GDP...

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Comparing willingness-to-pay and subjective well-being in the context of non-market goods

Dolan, Paul; Metcalf, Robert - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

In order to value non-market goods, economists estimate individuals’ willingness to pay (WTP) for these goods using revealed or stated preference methods. We compare these conventional approaches with subjective well-being (SWB), which is based on individuals’ ratings of their happiness or...

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Smoking, income and subjective well-being: evidence from smoking bans

Brodeur, Abel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of local smoking bans on different outcomes using county and time variation over the last 20 years in the US. First, I find no evidence that local smoking bans in bars, restaurants and workplaces decrease the prevalence of smoking. The estimates are very small...

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Do homeowners benefit urban neighborhoods? evidence from housing prices

Kortelainen, Mika; Saarimaa, Tuukka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Homeownership is heavily subsidized in many countries mainly through the tax code. The adverse effects of lenient tax treatment of owner-occupied housing on economic efficiency and growth are large and well documented in the economics literature. The main argument in favor of subsidizing...

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Life satisfaction and relative income: perceptions and evidence

Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...

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