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The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa: Results from the CREO Study in Guinea-Bissau
Boone, Peter; Fazzio, Ila; Jandhyala, Kameshwari; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We conducted a survey covering 20% of villages with 200-1000 population in rural Guinea-Bissau. We interviewed household heads, care-givers of children, and their teachers and schools. We analysed results from 9,947 children, aged 7-17, tested for literacy and numeracy competency. Only 27% of...
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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
This paper studies the role of intrinsic motivation, reputation, and reciprocity in driving open source software innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the .revealed preference. of developers - to infer the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670637
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The Impact of an Innovative Human Resource Function on Firm Performance: the Moderating Role of Financing Strategy
Dawson, J; Knight-Turvey, Neal; Neal, Andrew; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
The current study examined the impact of the human resource function and financing strategyon the financial performance of 104 UK manufacturing firms. Hypotheses are drawn from aresource-based perspective on human resource management and a financial theoryperspective on capital structure....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670421
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Do Organisational Climate and Strategic Orientation Moderate the Relationship Between Human Resource Management Practices and Productivity?
Neal, Andrew; Patterson, M; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest thatthe effectiveness of HRM practices should vary across firms. This study examinedwhether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in manufacturingcompanies is contingent upon organizational climate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670503
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Organizational Climate and Company Productivity: the Role of Employee Affect and Employee Level
Patterson, M; Warr, P; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
Consistent with a growing number of models about affect and behaviour and with arecognition that perception alone provides no impetus for action, it was predicted thatassociations between company climate and productivity would be mediated by average levelof job satisfaction. In a study of 42...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670579
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Is There a Market for Work Group Servers? Evaluating Market Level Demand Elasticities Using Micro and Macro Models
Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
This paper contains an empirical analysis demand for "work-group" (or low-end) servers. Servers are at thecentre of many US and EU anti-trust debates, including the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger and investigationsinto the activities of Microsoft. One question in these policy decisions is whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150985
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The Growth of Network Computing: Quality Adjusted Price Changes for Network Servers
Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005
In this paper we investigate the evolution of quality adjusted prices for servers motivated by two facts. First, the productivity acceleration in the US economy since the mid 1990s is closely linked to spread of information technology of which networked computing is a large component. Second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510407
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US...
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Education and Health Knowledge: Evidence from UK Compulsory Schooling Reforms
Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …
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Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain
Blanden, Jo; Goodman, Alissa; Gregg, Paul; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
This paper compares and contrasts estimates of the extent of intergenerational income mobility over time in Britain. Estimates based on two British birth cohorts show that mobility appears to have fallen in a cross-cohort comparison of people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s (the 1958 birth...
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