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Gender Differences in Response to Big Stakes

Azmat, Ghazala; Calsamiglia, Caterina; Iriberri, Nagore - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

. In a natural experiment, we study the gender difference in performance resulting from changes in stakes. We use detailed … information on the performance of high-school students and exploit the variation in the stakes of tests, which range from 5% to 27 …

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All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …

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Can a Work Organization Have An Attitude Problem? The Impact of Workplaces on Employee Attitude and Economic Outcomes

Bartel, Ann; Freeman, Richard; Ichniowski, Casey; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

In this study we examine whether a workplace can induce good or bad attitudes among its employees andwhether any such ¿workplace attitudes¿ affect economic outcomes. This study analyzes responses ofthousands of employees working in nearly two hundred branches to the emp loyee opinion survey of...

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Corporate Ownership Structure and Performance in Europe

Grant, Jeremy; Kirchmaier, Thomas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

to performance. For the first time we employ aHodrick-Prescott Filter, a methodology widely used in macroeconomics to …

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A Many-Country Model of Industrialization

Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

We draw attention to the role of economic geography in explaining important cross-sectional facts which are difficult to account for in existing models of industrialization. By construction, closed-economy models that stress the role of local demand in generating sufficient expenditure on...

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Schooling, Nation Building and Industrialization: A Gellnerian Approach

Hauk, Esther; Ortega, Javier - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

We model a two-region country where value is created through bilateral production between masses and elites (bourgeois and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises productivity, particularly for matches between masses...

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Outsourcing and the Rise in Services

Berlingieri, Giuseppe - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of outsourcing on sectoral reallocation in the U.S. over the period 1948-2002. Roughly 40% of the growth of the service sector comes from professional and business services. This is an unusual industry as more than 90% of its output is an intermediate input to...

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External Integration, Structural Transformation and Economic Development: Evidence From Argentina

Fajgelbaum, Pablo; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

This paper uses the natural experiment of Argentina's integration into world markets in the late-nineteenth century to provide evidence on the role of internal geography in shaping the effects of external integration. We develop a quantitative model of the distribution of economic activity...

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Volatility and Development

Koren, Miklos; Tenreyro, Silvana - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

Why is GDP growth so much more volatile in poor countries than in rich ones? We identify four possible reasons: (i) poor countries specialize in more volatile sectors; (ii) poor countries specialize in fewer sectors; (iii) poor countries experience more frequent and more severe aggregate shocks...

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Unemployment and Hours of Work: The North Atlantic Divide Revisited

Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United States and Europe. The theoretical model brings together all three and emphasizes technological growth. Computations show that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was...

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