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Occupation flexibility and the graduate gender wage gap in the UK

Benny, Liza; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021

This paper examines the importance of gender differences in labour supply and demand for job exibility to the growth of … the gender wage gap over the life cycle and over time for graduates in the UK. We document that the graduate gender wage … quantify the importance of changes to preferences and relative demand for exibility on the gender wage gap. Higher relative …

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The effect of school resources on test scores in England

Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta - 2012

We analyze the effect of school expenditure on children’s test scores at age 16 by means of an education production …

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The impact of local labour market conditions on school leaving decisions

Tumino, Alberto; Taylor, Mark P. - 2015

demand for post compulsory education and prevailing labour market conditions in Britain. We explicitly incorporate the role … education and social norms, outweigh economic considerations among students from higher socio economic backgrounds, who tend to … enrol in higher education irrespectively of labour markets conditions. …

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School inputs and skills : complementarity and self-productivity

Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta - 2013 - This version: November 20, 2013

Using administrative data on schools in England, we estimate an education production model of cognitive skills at the …

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Labour outcomes and family background : evidence from the EU during the recession

Avram, Silvia; Cantó-Sánchez, Olga - 2017

Using EU-SILC data for 2005 and 2011, we compare the role of family background on labour outcomes in three EU countries that experienced large swings in unemployment during this period. We use a multidimensional family background indicator that avoids undesirable cohort effects. Our results...

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Teacher grade predictions for ethnic minority groups : evidence from England

Burn, Hester; Fumagalli, Laura; Rabe, Birgitta - 2023

We explore whether teachers have different predictions for the examination performance of ethnic minority students relative to White British students. We exploit an exogenous change in assessment methods to compare grades based on teacher predictions to grades received through actual blindly...

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Does postpartum depression affect employment?

Komodromou, Maria Elena - 2018

This paper examines the effect of postpartum depression (PPD) on maternal employment in the UK and assesses the extent of the direct and indirect link between PPD and maternal employment up to eleven years after the birth of the child. The study tests a range of factors (marital status, physical...

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The long-run effects of attending an elite school : evidence from the UK

Clark, Damon; Del Bono, Emilia - 2014

This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long- run outcomes including completed education, income … formula, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school …

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Who assimilates? : statistical artefacts and intergenerational mobility in immigrant families

Luthra, Renee; Soehl, Thomas - 2014

attainment than parental education. …

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Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings : evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2019

We identify earnings impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention in Sweden, using individual linked administrative data to trace potential mechanisms. Leveraging quasi-random variation in eligibility, we estimate that exposure was associated with higher test scores in primary school for...

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