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Accounting for intergenerational income persistence: non-cognitive skills, ability and education
Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928813
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Social exclusion and children: a European view for a US debate
Micklewright, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively … little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. Among other things, I … exclusion of children. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast to Europe it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125982
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Racial segregation patterns in selective universities
Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban M.; Hussey, Andrew; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper examines sorting into interracial friendships at selective universities. We show significant friendship segregation, particularly for blacks. Indeed, black friendships are no more diverse in college than in high school despite the colleges blacks attend having substantially smaller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745497
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The returns to temporary migration to the United States: evidence from the Mexican urban employment survey
Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Mexican migration to the United States has been a very important issue throughout the twentieth century, and its relevance has reached unprecedented levels during the last two decades. Even though there is a huge body of literature that analyses many different aspects of this phenomenon, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745692
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Explaining cross-racial differences in the educational gender gap
Aucejo, Esteban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
show that, while family background covariates cannot account for the observed gap, proxy measures for non-cognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745795
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Freedom fries
Michaels, Guy; Zhi, Xiaojia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Do firms choose inputs that minimize their cost of production, ignoring the attitudes of their owners and employees? We examine this question using an episode of worsening relations between the US and France: from February 2002 to March 2003, France's favorability rating in US public opinion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745938
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Freedom fries
Michaels, Guy; Zhi, Xiaojia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Do firms choose inputs that minimize their cost of production, ignoring the attitudes of their owners and employees? We examine this question using an episode of worsening relations between the US and France: from February 2002 to March 2003, France's favourability rating in US public opinion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746134
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Change and continuity among minority communities in Britain
Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
There is widespread concern currently that some ethnic minority communities within Britain, especially Muslim, are not following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have the impression that differences between Muslims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746409
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Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods: is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?
Knies, Gundi; Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746715
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Trust and racial income inequality: evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183328