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Big ideas: valuing schooling through house prices

Gibbons, Steve - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

significance for public policy for education, cities and social mobility. …

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Social housing, neighborhood quality and student performance

Weinhardt, Felix - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational...

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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

type of involvement and the gender of the parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlier poverty …, especially at age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest in school at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education …. The frequency of outings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education than outings with father …

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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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Understanding low achievement in English schools

Kingdon, Geeta; Cassen, Robert - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper seeks to build a fuller picture of Key Stage 4 low achievement and its correlates than available hitherto. We focus on three aspects. Firstly, the role of students’ personal...

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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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Modernisation and son preference

Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

rich province, whereas there is a bias in education spending against older girls in both provinces. These biases in …

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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 subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major...

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The cost of grade retention

Manacorda, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper uses administrative longitudinal micro data on the universe of Junior High school students in Uruguay to measure the effect of grade failure on students' subsequent school outcomes. Exploiting the discontinuity induced by a rule establishing automatic grade failure for pupils missing...

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