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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...

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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 postgraduate students as overseas enrolments have grown. We interpret this as …

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Sheepskin or prozac: the causal effect of education on mental health

Chevalier, Arnaud; Feinstein, Leon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health, we rely on a rich longitudinal dataset that contains...

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Damages and injunctions in protecting proprietary research tools

Schankerman, Mark; Scotchmer, Suzanne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

We investigate how liability rules and property rules affect the incentives to invest in research tools. We argue that it is hard to deter infringement under any of the enforcement regimes available. However, counterintuitively, a credible threat of infringement can actually be beneficial to the...

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Financial institutions and the wealth of nations: tales of development

Tong, Jian; Chenggang, Xu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the evolution of the financing regimes. The...

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Financial institutions and the wealth of nations: tales of development

Tong, Jian; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

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Policies for full employment

de Koning, J.; Layard, R.; Nickell, S.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

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The impact of mandatory entitlement to paid leave on employment in the UK

Lembcke, Alexander - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

I evaluate the impact of the UK Working Time Regulations 1998, which introduced mandatory paid holiday entitlement. The regulation gave (nearly) all workers the right to a minimum of 4 weeks of paid holiday per a year. With constant weekly pay this change amounts effectively to an increase in...

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Understanding labour markets

Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

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Life after work: privacy and dismissal

Mantouvalou, Virginia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This article addresses the issue of termination of employment because of the conduct of the employee in her leisure time, in the light of the human right to private life. It explores the impact on the retention of employment of activities taking place outside the workplace and outside working...

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