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Social mobility, life chances, and the early years

Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

It is widely agreed that the early years are a particularly important time for efforts to increase social mobility, because a good deal of inequality is already apparent by the time children start school, and because children’s development may be less amenable to change after they enter...

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Fueling the gender gap? Oil and women's labor and marriage market outcomes

Maurer, Stephan E.; Potlogea, Andrei - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper analyzes the effect of resource-based economic specialization on women's labor market outcomes. Using information on the location and discovery of major oil fields in the Southern United States coupled with a county-level panel derived from US Census data for 1900-1940, we...

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Understanding the origins and pace of Africa’s urban transition

Fox, Sean - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

this historically-grounded theory of urbanisation, a range of qualitative and quantitative evidence is used to explain the …

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Game theoretical models of market structure

Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

This paper reviews the recent literature on game-theoretic models of market structure and their empirical implementation.

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Game-theoretic models of market structure

Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

This paper reviews the recent literature on game-theoretic models of market structure and their empirical implementation.

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The effects of agglomeration on wages: evidence from the micro-level

Fingleton, Bernard; Longhi, Simonetta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

, namely New Economic Geography (NEG), as represented by the NEG wage equation and urban economic (UE) theory, in which wages … examine the issue of agglomeration processes associated with contemporary theory working with micro-level data, highlighting … wage levels are an outcome of the mechanisms suggested by NEG or UE theory, but this is not the case for female respondents …

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Looking ahead: subjective time perception and individual discounting

Bradford, W. David; Dolan, Paul; Galizzi, Matteo M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Time discounting is at the heart of economic decision-making. We disentangle hyperbolic discounting from subjective time perception using experimental data from incentive-compatible tests to measure time preferences, and a set of experimental tasks to measure time perception. The two behavioural...

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Do you have to win it to fix it?: a longitudinal study of lottery winners and their health care demand

Cheng, Terence C.; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...

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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?

Sila, Urban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

estimates of the effects contradict the predictions of the theory. Furthermore, I don’t find evidence for the expected …

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Is a friend in need a friend indeed? Inclusion and exclusion in mutual insurance networks in southern Ghana

Goldstein, Markus; de Janvry, Alan; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Mutual insurance has been shown, theoretically and empirically, to be incomplete and limited by asymmetric information and lack of enforcement mechanisms. While some research has shown that networks based on kinship, neighborhood and ethnicity may provide a locus of insurance and thus a way of...

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