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Labour's record on the under fives: policy, spending and outcomes 1997 - 2010
Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
When Labour came to power in 1997 it made commitments to reduce poverty and improve children’s health, education and wider life chances. Early childhood was considered central to the strategy, and considerable resources were invested in very young children. This paper examines the main...
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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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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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Welfare policy and the distribution of hours of work
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
We examine the distribution of hours of work across industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities when sectors are divided into three groups: one that produces goods without home substitutes and two others that have home substitutes — health and social work, and all others....
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Public education for the minority, private education for the majority
Levy, Gilat - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Public provision of private goods such as education is usually viewed as a form of redistribution in kind. However, does it arise when income redistribution is feasible as well? In this paper I analyse a two-dimensional model of political decision making. Society has to choose both the tax rate...
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Incentives and invention in universities
Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
Using data on U.S. universities, we show that universities that give higher royalty shares to faculty scientists generate greater license income, controlling for university size, academic quality, researchfunding and other factors. We use pre-sample data on university patenting to control for...
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School participation in rural India
Dreze, Jean; Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
This paper presents an analysis of the determinant of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent … household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics. School participation especially among girls … state of Himachal Pradesh is fully accounted for by these variables. School quality matters, but it is not related in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745987
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When the cat is near, the mice won't play: the effect of external examiners in Italian schools
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
in the test performance between classes of the same school with and without external examiners. The indirect effect is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746204
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Collapsing worlds and varieties of welfare capitalism: in search of a new political economy of welfare
Schelkle, Waltraud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
The study of welfare capitalism is concerned with a founding question of political economy, namely how capitalism and democracy can be combined. Ever since the publication of Esping-Andersen’s Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism in 1990, the answer was sought in identifying ideal types of...
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Fiscal policy instruments and the political economy of designing programs to reach the poorest
Ahmad, Ehtisham - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
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