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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Sheepskin or prozac: the causal effect of education on mental health

Chevalier, Arnaud; Feinstein, Leon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes … but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health … extensive and intensive margins of education on mental health using various estimators. For all estimators, accounting for the …

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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. …

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The politics of public provision of education

Levy, Gilat - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

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To join or not to join? Factors influencing employee share plan membership in a multinational corporation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidizethe price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a newsurvey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerablevariation in joining among...

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Localisation and the means test: a case study of support for English students from Autumn 2012

Hills, John; Richards, Ben - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

The combination of spending cuts, efforts to protect the poorest from some of their effects, and ‘localised’ decision-making are leading to an increase in the numbers of means tests designed by lower level institutions. This paper examines a case study of the effects of this, looking at the...

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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...

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