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England and Wales: stable fertility and pronounced social status differences

Sigle-Rushton, Wendy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

For nearly three decades, the total fertility rate in England and Wales has remained high relative to other European … countries, and stable at about 1.7 births per woman. In this chapter, we examine trends in both period and cohort fertility … and quantum of fertility. Breaking with a market-oriented and laissez-faire approach to work and family issues, the last …

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Fertility and union dissolution in Brazil: an example of multi-process modelling using the Demographic and Health Survey calendar data

Leone, Tiziana; Hinde, Andrew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

between union instability and fertility in Brazil which has been long understudied. Using the example of Brazil it … fertility in Brazil using multiprocess event history analysis techniques as developed by Lillard (1993). This type of … countries mainly due to the lack of data. The paper will demonstrate the positive effect of union instability on fertility. …

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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance: findings from English firms and cities 2008-9

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

National Business Survey. I construct measures of diversity and sameness across ethnicity and gender 'bases', alongside …

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School quality, child wellbeing and parents' satisfaction

Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Researchers in economics of education usually assume that parents choose schools for their high academic performance, with some support from revealed preference evidence based on local house prices. However, anecdotal evidence and common sense suggest that school quality is not one-dimensional...

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The flypaper effect revisited

Aragon, Fernando - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper argues that there is nothing anomalous about the flypaper effect. I develop a simple median voter model of government spending with costly tax collection that predicts the flypaper effect and provide a quantifiable measure of its magnitude. Using the model insights and previous...

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Evaluating education policies: the evidence from economic research

McNally, Sandra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

The latest CEP Election Analysis gives an overview of the research evidence on education policy, one of the key battlegrounds of the 2010 General Election.

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Efficiency in repeated two-action games with local monitoring

Nava, Francesco; Piccione, Michele - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The paper discusses community enforcement in infinitely repeated two-action games with local monitoring. Each player interacts with and observes only a fixed set of partners, of whom he is privately informed. The main result shows that for generic beliefs efficiency can be sustained in a...

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Repayment frequency in microfinance contracts with present-biased borrowers

Fischer, Greg; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of high-frequency repayment, a feature in nearly all microfinance contracts that has been largely overlooked by theorists. The pervasive belief among practitioners that frequent repayment is critical in achieving high repayment rates is puzzling....

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Inequality and opportunity: the return of a neglected debate

Machin, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

During this election period many Americans are feeling angry towards the very rich, especially those working in the financial sector, who helped cause the Great Recession and yet were bailed out by the government. Increases in inequality might be tolerable at a time of growing consumption for...

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Preference heterogeneity and optimal capital taxation

Golosov, Mikhail; Weinzierl, Matthew; Tsyvinsky, Aleh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

We analytically and quantitatively examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. We study an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption and find that, when...

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