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Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy

Almenberg, Johan; Gerdes, Christer - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The tendency to underestimate the future value of a variable growing at a constant rate, anexample of exponential growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making.We show that exponential growth bias and standard measures of financial literacy arenegatively correlated in a...

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Family Income and Tertiary Education Attendance acrossthe EU: An empirical assessment using sibling data

Vandenberghe, Vincent - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

tertiary education than their better-off peers. Thiscorrelation is often used to justify monetary transfers to families with … ability, motivation, education, and other aspects of the youngperson’s experience which differ between families, but are not a …

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The Dynamics of School Attainment of England’s EthnicMinorities

Wilson, Deborah; Burgess, Simon M.; Briggs, Adam - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

We exploit a universe dataset of state school students in England with linkedtest score records to document the evolution of attainment through school fordifferent ethnic groups. The analysis yields a number of striking findings. First,we show that, controlling for personal characteristics, all...

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Parallel lives? Ethnic segregation in schools andneighbourhoods

Burgess, Simon M.; Wilson, Deborah; Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

compare patterns of segregation across nineethnic groups, and across Local Education Authorities in England. Looking atboth …

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Parental Investment in Childhood and Later Adult Well-Being: Can More Involved Parents Offset the Effects ofSocioeconomic Disadvantage?

Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

involvement and the gender ofthe parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlierpoverty, especially at … age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest inschool at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education. The … frequency ofoutings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education thanoutings with father, however, neither …

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Schools in Disadvantaged Areas: Recognising Context and Raising Quality

Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower indisadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has beenfocused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring therelationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the qualityof...

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The Economic Determinants of Truancy

Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

Truancy is often seen as irrational behaviour on the part of school ageyouth. This paper takes the opposite view and models truancy as thesolution to a time allocation problem in which youths derive currentreturns from activities that reduce time spent at school. The model isestimated using a US...

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Job Creation by Firms in Denmark

Ibsen, Rikke; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels C. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

In this paper we will look at job creation and destruction in firms. We will answer the questionif it is the large companies that create jobs, while the smaller companies are contributingmuch less. Or is it the young companies that create jobs? And who destroys the most jobs?In the crisis...

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’?What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupationalchoices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US … labor forceparticipants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneurnegatively. We show …

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The Effect of Product Market Competition onJob Instability

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied bythe use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor ForceSurvey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instabilityrises with...

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