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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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European regional railways and real income, 1870–1910: a preliminary report

Caruana-Galizia, Paul; Martí-Henneberg, Jordi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This article introduces our project on the relationship between railways and real income levels across European regions between 1870 and 1910. While similar relationships have been analysed for the USA, India and individual European countries, our project is the first to take a pan-European...

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Relocation of public sector workers: evaluating a place-based policy

Faggio, Giulia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper assesses the local labour market impact of a UK public sector relocation initiative labeled the Lyons Review. The review resulted in the dispersal of more than 25,000 civil servants out of London and the South East towards other UK destinations. The objective of the paper is to detect...

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Fueling the gender gap? Oil and women's labor and marriage market outcomes

Maurer, Stephan E.; Potlogea, Andrei - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper analyzes the effect of resource-based economic specialization on women's labor market outcomes. Using information on the location and discovery of major oil fields in the Southern United States coupled with a county-level panel derived from US Census data for 1900-1940, we...

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The political economy of inclusive rural growth

Carter, Michael; Morrow, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

complex technology in which public goods complement private capital. Investment and technology choices vary with wealth and …

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Same or different? the CEO labour market in China's public listed companies

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Zhou, Minghai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Using linked employer-employee data for all China's public listed firms over the period 2001-10, we find top executive compensation exhibits many of the traits familiar in the Western literature, although sometimes in a more muted way, and with some clear exceptions. We also find a role for...

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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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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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