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Boone, Peter - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

All the UK's major parties agree on ring-fencing foreign aid spending at current levels, even while the country's dire financial situation requires sharp cuts to other budgets. Peter Boone draws on the evidence on aid effectiveness to argue that our focus should not be on the amount we spend but...

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In brief: The educational background of postgrad students

Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

Has the boom in postgraduate courses in the UK over recent years had a negative impact on intergenerational mobility? Research by Stephen Machin and Richard Murphy suggests that there is a small but significant imbalance in favour of undergraduates who have been privately educated.

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#ElectionEconomics: The Research Evidence on Key Issues for Voters in the 2015 UK General Election

Azmat, Ghazala; Bell, Brian; Colmer, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Please see the CEP #ElectionEconomics report(Paper 1)and the Executive Summary (Paper 2) that cover all the election 2015 briefings, discussing the research evidence on 15 of the UK's key policy battlegrounds: immigration, austerity, real wages and living standards, productivity and business,...

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The Impact of the Labour Market on the Timing of Marriage and Births in Spain.

Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i.e. high unemployment rates and fixedterm contracts) postpone...

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The Impact of Vocational Qualifications on the Labour Market Outcomes of Low-Achieving School-Leavers

McIntosh, Steven - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, usingLabour Force Survey. The extent of low achievement at school amongst this group isdocumented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour force status is estimated.The main focus of the paper is...

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Employment After Motherhood: A European Comparison

Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

lowest rates of staying on in the labour market after childbearing. Higher education is a key explanatory factor of the …), education and part-time employment. …

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The Economic Situation of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …

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The Crime Reducing Effect of Education

Machin, Stephen; Marie, Olivier; Vujic, Suncica - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources … from Britain. A robust finding is that criminal activity is negatively associated with higher levels of education. However …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the …

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Pay for Performance Where Output is Hard to Measure: the Case of Performance Pay for School Teachers

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting performance reviews. Experienced teachers were...

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Anatomy of a Health Scare: Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK

Anderberg, Dan; Chevalier, Arnaud; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly … a positive education gradient into a negative one. We also consider the response in terms of uptake of other childhood …

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