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The contribution of schooling in development accounting: results from a nonparametric upper bound

Caselli, Francesco; Ciccone, Antonio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels … forms of endogenous technology response to changes in schooling. We also quantify the upper bound for all economies with the …

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Moving into the projects: social housing neighbourhoods and school performance in England

Weinhardt, Felix - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This study estimates the effect of living in a very deprived neighbourhood, as identified by a high density of social housing, on the educational attainment of fourteen years old (9th grade) students in England. Neighbourhoods with markedly high concentrations of social housing have very high...

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Bank location and financial liberalization reforms: evidence from microgeographic data

Huysentruyt, Marieke; Lefevere, Eva; Menon, Carlo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

We examine the effects of bank deregulation on the spatial dynamics of retail-bank branching, exploiting, much like a quasi-natural experiment, the context of intense liberalization reforms in Belgium in the late nineties. Using .ne-grained data on branch network dynamics within the metropolitan...

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Financial institutions and the wealth of nations: tales of development

Tong, Jian; Chenggang, Xu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the evolution of the financing regimes. The...

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Dynastic management

Caselli, Francesco; Gennaioli, Nicola - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The most striking difference in corporate-governance arrangements between rich and poor countries is that the latter rely much more heavily on the dynastic family firm, where ownership and control are passed on from one generation to the other. We argue that if the heir to the family firm has no...

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The role of freedom, growth and religion in the taste for revolution

MacCulloch, Robert; Pezzini, Silvia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

A fundamental issue for economists is what determines civil conflict. One unsettled question is the relative importance of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of revolutionary preferences of...

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The economics of poverty in poor countries

Dasgupta, Partha - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

This article examines the links that have recently been studied between poverty, high fertility and undernourishment, on the one hand, and degradation of the local environmental-resource base and civic disconnection, on the other, in poor countries. An account is offered of a number of pathways...

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Real earnings disparities in Britain

Gibbons, Stephen; Overman, Henry G.; Resende, Guilherme - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

transactions, and by considering the implications of capital gains for housing user cost calculations. …

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Financial institutions and the wealth of nations: tales of development

Tong, Jian; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

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Mostly pointless spatial econometrics?

Gibbons, Steve; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

We argue that identification problems bedevil most applied spatial research. Spatial econometrics solves these problems by deriving estimators assuming that functional forms are known and by using model comparison techniques to let the data choose between competing specifications. We argue that...

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