Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 160
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745806
Cover Image
University quality and graduate wages in the UK
Hussain, Iftikhar; McNally, Sandra; Telhaj, Shqiponja - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
whether institutional quality is reflected in labour market earnings. Such information could help to inform students, teachers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746692
Cover Image
Child farm labour: theory and evidence
Bhalotra, Sonia; Heady, Chris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
This paper presents a dynamic model of child labour supply in a farming household. The model clarifies the roles of land, income and household size, allowing labour and credit market imperfections. If labour markets are imperfect, child labour is increasing in farm size and decreasing in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884618
Cover Image
The entry of NGO schools and girls’ educational outcomes in Bangladesh
Sukontamarn, Pataporn - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
This paper uses household, school, and test score data from Bangladesh to compare and contrast the effectiveness of NGO-run and state-run schools in the provision of primary education. I study how the entry of NGOs in primary education has affected educational outcomes of girls and examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744976
Cover Image
Changes in returns to education in Latin America: the role of demand and supply of skills
Manacorda, Marco; Sanchez-Paramo, Carolina; Schady, Norbert - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Changes in the relative wages of workers with different amounts of education have profound implications for developing countries, where initial levels of inequality are often very high. In this paper we use micro data for five Latin American countries over the 1980s and 1990s to document trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745530
Cover Image
Education, inequality and income inequality
Checchi, Daniele - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
In this paper we propose to measure inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational achievements (in terms of both the average attainments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745976
Cover Image
Productivity as if space mattered: an application to factor markets across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Optimal production decisions depend on local market characteristics. This paper develops a model to explain firm labor demand and firm density across regions. Firms vary in their technology to combine imperfectly substitutable worker types, and locate across regions with distinct distributions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746456
Cover Image
Employment trajectories for mothers in low-skilled work: evidence from the British lone parent cohort
Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
employment. We know little about how likely such women are to remain in work, let alone how likely they are to progress to higher … over the decade, identifying the share of women broadly stable in work, those broadly stable at home and those following …. Finally, the paper examines differences in wage progression across groups of women following different pathways, and similarly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744941
Cover Image
Employment trajectories and later employment outcomes for mothers in the British Household Panel Survey: an analysis by skill level
Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
to explore this issue further. It examines the employment trajectories of 929 women for the ten years after the birth of … taken? In both cases the paper focuses in particular on differences between women with higher and lower levels of … terms of wages when the youngest reaches ten, but the benefits are substantially higher for women with higher levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745816
Cover Image
Right to the city and critical reflections on property rights activism in China’s urban renewal contexts
Shin, Hyun Bang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
The rapid transformation of urban socio-spatial landscape in China has resulted in an increasing degree of frustration and discontent among local residents who face threats of demolition and eviction. This has given rise to sporadic protests by local residents who are often known as ‘nail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746263