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Giving a little help to girls? evidence on grade discrimination and its effect on students' achievement

Terrier, Camille - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …

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Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India?

Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market …. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca method, the gross gender difference in earnings is decomposed into the part that is explained by …

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Gender and the labor market: what have we learned from field and lab experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to …

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Pay for performance where output is hard to measure: the case of performance pay for school teachers

Marsden, David; Belfield, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting performance reviews. Experienced teachers were...

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Unions, within-workplace job cuts and job security guarantees

Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Using data from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey 1998, this paper shows that unionisation increased the probability of within-workplace job cuts and the incidence of job security guarantees. As theory predicts, both are more prevalent among market-sector workplaces with higher union...

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The impact of competition on management quality: evidence from public hospitals

Bloom, Nick; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to construct instrumental variables for market...

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Revolving door lobbyists

Blanes i Vidal, Jordi; Draca, Mirko; Fons-Rosen, Christian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Washington's 'revolving door' - the movement from government service into the lobbying industry - is regarded as a major concern for policy-making. We study how ex-government staffers benefit from the personal connections acquired during their public service. Lobbyists with experience in the...

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Public enterprises and labor market performance

Horner, Johannes; Ngai, L. Rachel; Olivetti, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper shows that state control of some industries may have contributed to the increase in European unemployment from the 1970s to the early 1990s. We develop a simple model with both publicly-run and privately-run enterprises and show that when economic turbulence increases, higher...

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Performance pay for teachers: linking individual and organisational level targets

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

The introduction of performance-related pay and performance management schemes in the maintained, state, school sector represents a considerable change in the school management system. This paper combines the results of opinion surveys of classroom and head teachers with Department for Education...

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What if Congress doubled R&D spending on the physical sciences?

Van Reenen, John; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Many business, academic, and scientific groups have recommended that the Congress substantially increase R&D spending in the near future. President Bush’s American Competitiveness Initiative calls for a doubling of spending over the next decade in selected agencies that deal with the physical...

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