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Maternal investments in children : the role of expected effort and returns

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Delavande, Adeline; Gilabert, … - 2020

and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive, socio-emotional and health domains, and we show that this contributes …

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The impact of a personalised blood pressure warning on health outcomes and behaviours

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Delavande, Adeline; Fisher, Paul; … - 2020

In this paper we examine the impact of a tailored health warning on health outcomes. We exploit the design of a …

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The income-health gradient : evidence from self-reported health and biomarkers using longitudinal data on income

Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M.; Benzeval, Michaela - 2017

This paper adds to the literature on the income-health gradient by exploring the association of short- and long …-term income with a wide set of self-reported health measures and objective nurse-administered and blood-based biomarkers as well …. The income-health gradients are greater in magnitude in case of long-run rather than cross- sectional income measures …

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Baseline health and public healthcare costs five years on : a predictive analysis using biomarker data in a prospective household panel

Davillas, Apostolos; Pudney, Stephen E. - 2019

/11, reported no history of diagnosed long-lasting health conditions and for whom a set of objective biomarkers were observed. Five …

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Occupational feminization, specialized human capital and wages : evidence from the British labour market

Perales, Francisco - 2010

wages. This has traditionally been attributed to societal mechanisms undervaluing the work mainly performed by women. More …. We examine whether lower wages in female-dominated occupations in Britain are explained by differences in specialized … between occupational feminization and wages and estimate the contribution of occupational sex-segregation to the gender pay …

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Has performance pay increased wage inequality in Britain?

Bryan, Mark L.; Bryson, Alex - 2015

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...

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Earnings and labour market volatility in Britain

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen - 2013

changes in employment attachment rates. Labour market volatility trends in Britain, and what contributes to them, differ from …

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The impact of measurement error on wage decompositions : evidence from the British Household Panel Survey and the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey

Uhrig, S. C. Noah; Watson, Nicole - 2014

Test-retest reliability assessments rarely investigate whether reliability itself is stable or whether change in reliability affects findings from substantive models. Research across the social sciences often recognises that measurement error could influence results, yet it rarely applies...

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Earnings instability and tenure

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Leonardi, Marco - 2007

This paper develops a tractable empirical approach to estimate the effect of on-the-job tenure on the permanent and the transitory variance of earnings. The model is also used to evaluate earnings instability associated with fixed-term contracts (short-tenure contracts) in Italy. Our results...

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Trade unions and unpaid overtime in Britain

Veliziotis, Michail - 2010

In this paper we use British Household Panel Survey data to examine the relationship between unionization and unpaid overtime in Britain. The findings indicate that in the for-profit, non-caring sector of the economy, union covered employees supply fewer unpaid overtime hours than noncovered...

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