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12/281: Can governments do it better? Merger mania and hospital outcomes in the English NHS

Martin Gaynor, Mauro Laudicella and Carol Propper

11/280: Health and the Political Agency of Women

Sonia Bhalotra and Irma Clots-Figueras

11/279: War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War

Richard Akresh, Sonia Bhalotra, Marinella Leone and Una Osili

11/278: Measuring the intergenerational correlation of worklessness

Lindsey Macmillan

11/277: Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class: The Impact of Within-Group Inequality

Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg and Lindsey Macmillan

11/276: Student effort and educational attainment: Using the England football team to identify the education production function

Robert D Metcalfe, Simon Burgess and Steven Michael Proud

11/275: “Sleepwalking towards Johannesburg”? Local measures of ethnic segregation between London’s secondary schools, 2003 – 2008/9

Richard Harris

11/274: Genetic Markers as Instrumental Variables

Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder, George Smith, Debbie Lawlor, Carol Propper and Frank Windmeijer

11/273: The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow: Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure

Sonia Bhalotra and Atheendar Venkataramani

11/272: Seller Reputation and Trust in Pre-Trade Communication

Bruno Jullien and In-Uck Park

11/271: Raising your sights: the impact of friendship networks on educational aspirations

Simon Burgess and Marcela Umaña-Aponte

11/270: An integrated approach for evaluating the effectiveness of landslide risk reduction in unplanned communities in the Caribbean

Elizabeth Holcombe, Sarah Smith, Malcolm Anderson and Edmund Wright

11/269: Rational Inattention to Subsidies for Charitable Contributions

Kimberley Scharf and Sarah Smith

11/268: Who works in the public sector? Evidence from the World Values Survey

Sarah Smith and Edd Cowley

11/267: School ties: An analysis of homophily in an adolescent friendship network

Simon Burgess, Eleanor Sanderson and Marcela Umana-Aponte

11/266: Estimating Structural Mean Models with Multiple Instrumental Variables using the Generalised Method of Moments

Paul Clarke, Tom Palmer and Frank Windmeijer

11/265: Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Marisa Ratto and Emma Tominey

11/264: Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment: Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem

David W. Johnston, Carol Propper, Stephen Pudney and Michael Shields

11/263: Management practices: Are not-for-profits different?

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Carol Propper and Sarah Smith

11/262: Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Karin Monstad, Carol Propper and Kjell G Salvanes

11/261: School meal crowd out in the 1980s

Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder

11/260: Measuring social segregation between London’s secondary schools, 2003 – 2008/9

Richard Harris

11/259: ‘A naked scrap for party advantage, dressed up as a principled defence of democracy’: the House of Lords on the number of MPs and defining their constituencies

Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie

11/258: Long-term effects of a nutritional shock: the 1980 famine of Karamoja, Uganda

Marcela UmanaAponte

11/257: The separation of lower and higher attaining pupils in the transition from primary to secondary schools: a longitudinal study of London

Rich Harris

11/256: What determines the return to education: An extra year or hurdle cleared?

Matt Dickson and Sarah Smith

10/255: Social connectedness and retirement

Sarah Smith

10/254: Where have all the young girls gone? Identification of sex selection in India

Sonia Radhika Bhalotra and Tom Cochrane

10/253: Poverty and survival

Sonia Radhika Bhalotra

10/252: Party Activists, Campaign Funding and the Quality of Government

John Maloney and Andrew C Pickering

10/251: Segregation by choice? The debate so far

Rich Harris

10/250: Hidden action, identification and organisation design

Wendelin Schnedler

10/249: Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: the penalty of gender inequality

Sonia Radhika Bhalotra and Samantha B. Rawlings

10/248: Peer effects in English Primary schools: An IV estimation on the effect of a more able peer group on age 11 examination results

Steven Michael Proud

10/247: The price elasticity of charitable giving: does the form of tax relief matter?

Kimberley Scharf and Sarah Smith

10/246: A natural experiment in school accountability: the impact of school performance information on pupil progress and sorting

Simon Burgess, Deborah Wilson and Jack Worth

10/245: Child height, health and human capital: evidence using genetic markers

Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder, George Smith, Debbie Lawlor, Carol Propper and Frank Windmeijer

10/244: The early impact of Brighton and Hove's school admission reforms

Rebecca Allen, Simon Burgess and Leigh McKenna

10/243: Nature of human capital, technology and ownership of public goods

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka

10/242: Death by Market Power. Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service

Martin Gaynor, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra and Carol Propper

10/241: Evaluating the provision of school performance information for school choice

Rebecca Allen and Simon Burgess

10/240: The Choice between fixed and random effects models: some considerations for educational research

Paul Clarke, Claire Crawford, Fiona Steele and Anna Vignoles

10/239: Instrumental Variable Estimators for Binary Outcomes

Paul Clarke and Frank Windmeijer

10/238: Choosing secondary school by moving house: school quality and the formation of neighbourhoods

Rebecca Allen, Simon Burgess and Tomas Key

10/237: The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

Nicholas Bloom, Carol Propper, Stephan Seiler and John van Reenan

10/236: How do firms’ outward FDI strategies relate to their activity at home? Empirical evidence for the UK

Helen Simpson

10/235: The Dynamics of Women’s Labour Supply in Developing Countries

Sonia Radhika Bhalotra and Marcela Umaña-Aponte

10/234: Housing wealth or economic climate: Why do house prices matter for well-being?

Anita Ratcliffe

10/232: Is there an Income Gradient in Child Health? It depends whom you ask

David W. Johnston, Carol Propper, Stephen Pudney and Michael Shields

10/231: The Intergenerational Transmission of Worklessness in the UK

Lindsey Macmillan