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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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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

We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight from the causal effect. We find that, despite a detailed...

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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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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...

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Keeping it simple: financial literacy and rules of thumb

Drexler, Alejandro; Fischer, Gregory; Schoar, Antoinette - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Individuals and business owners engage in an increasingly complex array of financial decisions that are critical for their success and well-being. Yet a growing literature documents that in both developed and developing countries, a large fraction of the population is unprepared to make these...

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Quality matters: the expulsion of professors and Ph.D. student outcomes in Nazi Germany

Waldinger, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

I investigate the effect of faculty quality on Ph.D. student outcomes. To address the endogeneity of faculty quality I use exogenous variation provided by the expulsion of mathematics professors in Nazi Germany. I find that faculty quality is a very important determinant of short and long run...

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Close neighbours matter: neighbourhood effects on early performance at school

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Children’s outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the …

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Educational returns, ability composition and cohort effects: theory and evidence for cohorts of early-career UK graduates

Ireland, Norman; Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

An increase over time in the proportion of young people obtaining a degree is likely to impact on the relative ability compositions (i) of graduates and non-graduates and (ii) across graduates with different classes of degree award. In a signalling framework, we examine the implications of this...

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Apprenticeship in Europe: 'fading' or flourishing?

Steedman, Hilary - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper sets out the extent and defining characteristics of apprenticeship in Europe. Apprenticeship is then situated within the wider context of European provision for education and training of 16-19 year olds and a simple typology is proposed and explained. The German-speaking dual system...

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