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Money for nothing: estimating the impact of student aid on participation in higher education
Dearden, Lorraine; Fitzsimons, Emla; Wyness, Gill - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Understanding how higher education (HE) finance policy can affect HE decisions is important for understanding how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126729
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Ethnic diversity, mobility and school funding: theory and evidence from Kenya
Miguel, Ted - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
This paper explores the relationship between ethnic diversity and local school funding in Kenyan primary schools. The empirical results paint a picture of pervasive local collective action problems in ethnically diverse Kenyan primary schools. Local ethnic diversity is robustly associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928787
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Inequality in Greece: an analysis by income source
Papatheodorou, Christos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to … overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928797
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Decomposing inequality in Greece: results and policy implications
Papatheodorou, Christos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
income inequality in Greece. This analysis is quite revealing for understanding and explaining income idfferences among … certain population subgroups with apparent policy implications. The degree to which overall inequality is attributable to … inequality between these sub groups or to inequality within them is investigated, employing a decomposition analysis by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745031
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The impact of vocational qualifications on the labour market outcomes of low-achieving school-leavers
McIntosh, Steven - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, using Labour Force Survey. The extent of low achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour force status is estimated. The main focus of the paper is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746387
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Schools in disadvantaged areas: recognising context and raising quality
Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower in disadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has been focused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring the relationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125921
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Cheap imports and the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs
Cooke, Abigail; Kemeny, Thomas; Rigby, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper examines the role of international trade, and specifically imports from low-wage countries, in determining patterns of job loss in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2007. Motivated by intuitions from factor-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125962
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Cross-national rankings of intergenerational mobility: a comparison of approaches from economics and sociology
Blanden, Jo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
mobility is negatively correlated with inequality and the return to education but positively correlated with a nation …, education or social class. The literatures on education and income mobility reveal a similar ranking with South America, other … second part of the paper looks for explanations for the differences in earnings and education persistence and finds that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126209
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The cost of grade retention
Manacorda, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper uses administrative longitudinal micro data on the universe of Junior High school students in Uruguay to measure the effect of grade failure on students' subsequent school outcomes. Exploiting the discontinuity induced by a rule establishing automatic grade failure for pupils missing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928696
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Financing higher education: lessons from economic theory and reform in England
Barr, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
The finance of higher education faces a clash between technological advance, driving up the demand for skills, and … sensitive. This paper sets out core lessons for financing higher education deriving from economic theory, including the … discussion of the appropriate role of government in higher education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744955