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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?
Sila, Urban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
It has been suggested in the literature that taxes and subsidies play an important role in explaining the differences in working hours across countries. In this paper I test whether public programmes for family support play a role in explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies:...
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Violence and birth outcomes: evidence from homicides in Brazil
Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux; Manacorda, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence - measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates shows that exposure to violence during the first trimester of...
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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and early child outcomes
Tominey, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight from the causal effect. We find that, despite a detailed...
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Fertility, education and development: further evidence from India
Dreze, Jean; Murthi, Mamta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
There has been a significant decline in fertility in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This paper reexamines the determinants of fertility levels and fertility decline, using panel data on Indian districts for 1981 and 1991. We find that women's education is the most important factor...
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How mental illness loses out in the NHS
London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Mental illness accounts for a massive share of the total burden of disease. Even when we include the burden of premature death mental illness accounts for 23% of the total burden of disease. Yet, despite the existence of cost-effective treatments, it receives only 13% of NHS health expenditure....
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Anthropometric dividends of Czechoslovakia’s break up
Costa-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
institutional reform on well-being. Changes in population heights are regarded as virtuous pointers of well-being improvements in … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and … capitalism after the split up of Czechoslovakia. An additional year spent under democracy increases height by 0.286cm for Slovaks …
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The effects of agglomeration on wages: evidence from the micro-level
Fingleton, Bernard; Longhi, Simonetta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This paper estimates individual wage equations in order to test two rival non-nested theories of economic agglomeration, namely New Economic Geography (NEG), as represented by the NEG wage equation and urban economic (UE) theory, in which wages relate to employment density. The paper makes an...
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Social mobility, life chances, and the early years
Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
It is widely agreed that the early years are a particularly important time for efforts to increase social mobility, because a good deal of inequality is already apparent by the time children start school, and because children’s development may be less amenable to change after they enter...
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Looking ahead: subjective time perception and individual discounting
Bradford, W. David; Dolan, Paul; Galizzi, Matteo M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Time discounting is at the heart of economic decision-making. We disentangle hyperbolic discounting from subjective time perception using experimental data from incentive-compatible tests to measure time preferences, and a set of experimental tasks to measure time perception. The two behavioural...
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Do you have to win it to fix it?: a longitudinal study of lottery winners and their health care demand
Cheng, Terence C.; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...
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