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Education and health knowledge: evidence from UK compulsory schooling reforms
Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126452
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745806
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Paying out and crowding out? The globalisation of higher education
Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We investigate the rapid influx of overseas students into UK higher education and the impact on the number of domestic students. Using administrative data since 1994/5, we find no evidence of crowd out of domestic undergraduate students and indications of increases in the domestic numbers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126622
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Long-term health effects on the next generation of Ramadan fasting during pregnancy
van Ewijk, Reyn - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder …’s pregnancy have a poorer general health and are sick more often than people who were not exposed. This effect is especially … pronounced among older people, who, when exposed, also report health problems more often that are indicative of coronary heart …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746478
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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 in the United States. I use a unique state-specific dataset to identify the effect of failing the HSEE on the likelihood that a student drops out early based on a Regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884554
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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 a fuller picture of Key Stage 4 low achievement and its correlates than available hitherto. We focus on three aspects. Firstly, the role of students’ personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884594
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884717
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928691
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745981
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The impact of vocational qualifications on the labour market outcomes of low-achieving school-leavers
McIntosh, Steven - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, using Labour Force Survey. The extent of low achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour force status is estimated. The main focus of the paper is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746387