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United Kingdom Education 1997-2001

Glennerster, Howard - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

claimed that hisGovernment would make education a priority. The first part of thepaper reviews the scale of education spending … in relation to theeconomy at large and within the education budget. The second part ofthe paper looks at the productivity … education, theintroduction of income related loans to cover maintenance and up frontfees. The paper concludes some serious …

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Refinancing Europe’s Higher Education through Deferredand Income-Contingent Fees: An empirical assessmentusing Belgian, German and UK data

Vandenberghe, Vincent; Debande, O. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

The arguments for refinancing the European Union’s (EU) higher education via highertuition fees largely rest on … adverse selection. These findings prove robust to significantvariations between countries’ unharmonised higher education …

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Goodness-of-Fit: An Economic Approach

Cowell, Frank A.; Flachaire, Emmanuel; Bandyopadhyay, … - London School of Economics and Political Science; Pôle …; … - 2009

Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions;goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriatein the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use a distance criterion based onthe EDF, an aggregation of differences in...

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Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presenceof Income Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

A substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusingparticularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equalmarginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preexistingdistortion due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is...

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Knowing what is good for you: Empirical analysis ofpersonal preferences and the “objective good”

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper aims to test empirically if certain frequently used measures of wellbeing,which are regarded as valuable properties of human life, are actuallydesired by people. In other words, it investigates whether the “expertjudgments” in social science overlap with social consensus on what...

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The Contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the Fieldof Human Rights

Vizard, Polly - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist ProfessorAmartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways inwhich Sen’s research agenda has deepened and expanded human rightsdiscourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how hiswork...

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Income Mobility in Old Age in Britain and Germany

Zaidi, Asghar; Frick, Joachim R.; Büchel, Felix - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The increases in human longevity in recent decades and the trends for early retirement have posed new challenges for policy makers, and require a holistic understanding of the processes that influence the economic resources of older people. This paper contributes to this knowledge by examining...

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Are one man’s rags another man’s riches?Identifying adaptive expectations using panel data

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

[...]This paper contributes to the identification of adaptive expectations by using ten years of panel data from the British Household Panel Survey to study the process of adaptation based on the individual’s own previous experience. Subjective assessments of financial well-being at time t,...

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Social Indicators and the Study of Inequality

Meyers, Marcia K.; Garfinkel, Irwin - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

[...]The New York City Social Indicators Survey (SIS)project represents one effort to track the consequences ofpolicy reform and devolution for inequality and well-beingin the largest and most diverse city in the United States.The project uses a telephone survey to collect data from arepeated...

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Measuring the Value of Better Schools

Black, Sandra E. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1998

[...]In this paper, I examine two methods of measuringthe value of better schools. One involves following individualsover time to determine how the quality of theirschooling affects outcomes later in their lives; the otherinvolves calculating parental valuation of better schoolstoday. I review...

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