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Child gender and parental borrowing: Evidence from India

Agier, Isabelle; Guérin, Isabelle; Szafarz, Ariane - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 3, pp. 363-365

Discrimination against girls is well-documented, especially in Asia. We show that women try to level the playing field for their daughters by taking on debt. But wealth asymmetry between mothers and fathers perpetuates gender inequality across generations.

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Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US

Brodeur, Abel; Flèche, Sarah - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the … association between well-being and neighbors' income follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in the size of the area. We find a … negative relationship between well-being and neighbors' income in the county of residence, but the opposite at the ZIP code …

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Education and Italian Regional Development

Liberto, Adriana Di; Symons, James - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001

Given recent emphasis on externality to education, macroeconomic studies have a role to play in the analysis of return to schooling. In this paper we study the connection between growth and human capital in a convergence regression for the panel of Italian regions. We include measures of...

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Changes in Returns to Education in Latin America: the Role of Demand and Supply of Skills

Manacorda, Marco; Sanchez-Paramo, Carolina; Schady, Norbert - Centre for Economic Performance, 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...

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Why is the Rate of Return to Schooling Higher For Women Than For Men?

Dougherty, C - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

The rate of return to schooling appears to be nearly two percentage points greater for females than for males in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, despite the fact that females tend to earn less, both absolutely and controlling for personal characteristics. A survey of previous...

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Parameter estimates comparison of earnings functions in the PSID and CPS data, 1976–2007

Gouskova, Elena - In: Economics Letters 122 (2014) 2, pp. 353-357

Comparing earnings equations in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Current Population Survey, we find …

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Gender, productive ability and the perceived returns to education: Evidence from rural India

Chari, A.V.; Maertens, Annemie - In: Economics Letters 122 (2014) 2, pp. 253-257

Recent research has established the importance of perceived (as opposed to actual) returns as a determinant of educational investments. We analyze data from India to highlight gender disparities in the perceived returns to education and the salience of productive characteristics.

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The raising of the school leaving age: Returns in later life

Buscha, Franz; Dickson, Matt - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 2, pp. 389-393

Using the recently released UK Household Longitudinal Study we examine whether the raising of the school leaving age in 1972 had a permanent impact on earnings for individuals in their early 50s.

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Returns to education in professional football

Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario - In: Economics Letters 114 (2012) 3, pp. 326-328

After three years in college, football players face a trade-off between spending more time in college and pursuing a career in the National Football League (NFL). We analyze the salaries for rookies in the NFL and instrument the endogenous decision to enter the professional market with the month...

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The causal effect of income on life satisfaction and the implications for valuing non-market goods

Ambrey, Christopher L.; Fleming, Christopher M. - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 2, pp. 131-134

windfall income (restricted windfall income) as a substitute for the more conventional household income monetary measure …. Results provide no evidence against the exogeneity of restricted windfall income and indicate that the causal effect of income … windfall income is used. Further research should be devoted to looking into the presence and size of measurement errors in …

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