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19469: Regional variations in adult learning and vocational training: evidence from NCDS and WERS 98

Andrew Jenkins and Alison Wolf

19467: Women, lifelong learning and employment

Andrew Jenkins

19461: Family income and educational attainment: a review of approaches and evidence for Britain

Joanne Blanden and Paul Gregg

19451: Evaluating the impact of education on earnings in the UK: models, methods and results from the NCDS

Richard Blundell, Lorraine Dearden and Barbara Sianesi

19447: The role of credit constraints in educational choices: evidence from NCDS and BCS70

Lorraine Dearden, Leslie McGranahan and Barbara Sianesi

19428: Which skills matter?

Pedro Carneiro, Claire Crawford and Alissa Goodman

19426: Quantifying the influence of initial values on nonlinear prediction

Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong

19425: From the cradle to the labor market? The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

19423: Asymmetric least squares regression estimation: a nonparametric approach

Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong

19420: Are schools drifting apart? Intake stratification in English secondary schools

Stephen Gibbons and Shqiponja Telhaj

19414: The mobility of English school children

Stephen Machin, Shqiponja Telhaj and Joan Wilson

19412: Close neighbours matter: neighbourhood effects on early performance at school

Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin

19409: Education, occupation and career expectations: determinants of the gender pay gap for UK graduates

Arnaud Chevalier

19408: Using rate of return analyses to understand sector skill needs

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Anna Vignoles

19405: Sheepskin or prozac: the causal effect of education on mental health

Arnaud Chevalier and Leon Feinstein

19401: Accounting for intergenerational income persistence: non-cognitive skills, ability and education

Joanne Blanden, Paul Gregg and Lindsey Macmillan

19400: The long term impacts of compulsory schooling: evidence from a natural experiment in school leaving dates

Emilia Del Bono and Fernando Galindo-Rueda

19399: Higher education academic salaries in the UK

Mark Collins, Anna Vignoles and James Walker

19398: The value of basic skills in the British labour market

Augustin de Coulon, Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez and Anna Vignoles

19397: Over-education and the skills of UK graduates

Arnaud Chevalier and Joanne Lindley

19393: Urban density and pupil attainment

Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

19389: The impact of computer use, computer skills and computer use intensity: evidence from WERS 2004

Peter Dolton and Panu Pelkonen

19387: Use IT or lose IT?: the impact of computers on earnings

Peter Dolton, Gerald Makepeace and Helen Robinson

19385: Is free school meal status a valid proxy for socio-economic status (in schools research)?

Graham Hobbs and Anna Vignoles

19384: Mobility and school disruption

Stephen Gibbons and Shqiponja Telhaj

19383: Studying abroad and the effect on international labor market mobility: evidence from the introduction of Erasmus

Matthias Parey and Fabian Waldinger

19382: A researcher's guide to the Swedish compulsory school reform

Helena Holmlund

19380: Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms

Josef Fersterer, Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

19377: Students' academic self-perception

Arnaud Chevalier, Stephen Gibbons, Andy Thorpe, Martin Snell and Sherria Hoskins

19372: Irreversible investment with uncertainty and scale economies

Avinash Dixit

19371: Imperfect capital markets and persistence of initial wealth inequalities

Thomas Piketty

19370: A general model of information sharing in oligopoly

Michael A. Raith

19368: Roads to equality: wealth distribution dynamics with public-private capital complementarity

Francisco Ferreira

19365: Reputation and allocation of ownership

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka

19360: Cooperatives vs. outside ownership

Oliver Hart and John Moore

19358: Berge's maximum theorem with two topologies on the action set

Anthony Horsley, Andrew Wrobel and Timothy Van Zandt

19356: A theory of supervision with endogenous transaction costs

Antoine Faure-Grimaud, Jean-Jacques Laffont and David Martimort

19354: Foundations of incomplete contracts

Oliver Hart and John Moore

19351: The property-rights theory of the firm with endogenous timing of asset purchase

David de Meza and Ben Lockwood

19350: Implementation and renegotiation

Eric Maskin and John Moore

19349: Dynamic voting in clubs

Kevin Roberts

19346: Market experimentation in a dynamic differentiated-goods duopoly

R Keller and Sven Rady

19344: The density form of equilibrium prices in continuous time and Boiteux's solution to the shifting-peak problem

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19342: Efficiency rents of storage plants in peak-load pricing, ii: hydroelectricity

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19340: On the design of hierarchies: coordination versus specialization

Oliver Hart and John Moore

19338: The short-run approach to LRMC pricing for multiple outputs with nondifferentiable costs

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19337: Collective bargaining under complete information

Carlos Diaz-Moreno and Jose Galdon-Sanchez

19336: Efficiency rents of pumped-storage plants and their uses for operation and investment decisions

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19330: Continuity of the equilibrium price density and its uses in peak-load pricing

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19329: Self-confidence and survival

Heski Bar-Isaac

19325: Investment timing under incomplete information

Jean-Paul Décamps, Thomas Mariotti and Stephane Villeneuve

19323: Strategic liquidity supply and security design

Bruno Biais and Thomas Mariotti

19320: Efficiency and equilibrium when preferences are time-inconsistent

Erzo Luttmer and Thomas Mariotti

19319: Dynamic yardstick regulation

Antoine Faure-Grimaud and Sonje Reiche

19316: Agreeing now to agree later: contracts that rule out but do not rule in

Oliver Hart and John Moore

19315: Knowledge disclosure, patents and optimal organization of research and development

Sudipto Bhattacharya and Sergei Guriev

19313: A practical short-run approach to market equilibrium

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19309: The Wong-Viner envelope theorem for subdifferentiable functions

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19307: Characterizations of long-run producer optima and the short-run approach to long-run market equilibrium: a general theory with applications to peak-load pricing

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19301: Advanced purchase commitments for a malaria vaccine: estimating costs and effectiveness

Ernst R. Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael R. Kremer, Jean Lee, Ruth Levine, Georg Weizsäcker and Heidi Williams

19299: Strategy-proof judgment aggregation

Franz Dietrich and Christian List

19297: The entry of NGO schools and girls’ educational outcomes in Bangladesh

Pataporn Sukontamarn

19295: Arrow’s theorem in judgment aggregation

Franz Dietrich and Christian List

19294: Women in politics: evidence from the Indian states

Irma Clots-Figueras

19292: Being the New York Times: the political behaviour of a newspaper

Riccardo Puglisi

19290: Cross-country determinants of life satisfaction: exploring different determinants across groups in society

Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Dreher and Justina A. V. Fischer

19287: The effect of direct democracy on income redistribution: evidence for Switzerland

Lars Feld, Justina A. V. Fischer and Gebhard Kirchgässner

19273: Group deliberation and the transformation of judgments: an impossibility result

Christian List

19033: Digital opportunities and the missing link for developing countries

Robin Mansell

19031: E-commerce web site attributes: differentiating hype from reality

Robin Mansell and Alexander Nioras

19012: Independent sector domiciliary care providers in 1999

Tihana Matosevic, Martin Knapp, Julien Forder and Jeremy Kendall

18905: Scarce or abundant?: the economics of natural resource availability

Eric Neumayer

18399: Fairness versus efficiency in charging for the use of common facilities

Martin Butler and H. Paul Williams

18343: Comparing youth and adult desire for unionization in Canada

Rafael Gomez, Morley Gunderson and Noah Meltz

18341: Mandatory retirement: a constraint in transitions to retirement?

Rafael Gomez, Morley Gunderson and Andrew Luchak

17876: Unemployment clusters across Europe's regions and countries

Henry Overman and Diego Puga

17701: Inference in components of variance models with low replication

Peter Hall and Qiwei Yao

17497: Educational inequality and the expansion of UK higher education

Joanne Blanden and Stephen Machin

17436: The human development index, 1870-1999: some revised estimates

Nicholas Crafts

17386: The network economy and models of the employment contract

David Marsden

17279: Irrational exuberance, entrepreneurial finance and public policy

Marta Coelho, David de Meza and Diane J. Reyniers

17077: Nationalism and multilateralism in Chinese foreign policy: implications for Southeast Asia

Christopher R. Hughes

17008: Membership has its privileges: the effect of social capital and neighbourhood characteristics on the earnings of microfinance borrowers

Rafael Gomez and Eric Santor

16831: "Really" equal: opportunities and autonomy

Anne Phillips

16702: The super-rich in global perspective: a quantitative analysis of the Forbes list of billionaires

Eric Neumayer

16693: Does high indebtedness increase natural resource exploitation?

Eric Neumayer

16689: Is the allocation of food aid free from donor interest bias?

Eric Neumayer

16628: The impact of risk regulation on price dynamics

Jon Danielsson, Hyun Song Shin and Jean-Pierre Zigrand

16375: A Cox process with log-normal intensity

Sankarshan Basu and Angelos Dassios

16351: The minimal entropy martingale measure for general Barndorff-Nielsen/Shephard models

Thorsten Rheinlander and Gallus Steiger

16333: Approximating conditional distribution functions using dimension reduction

Peter Hall and Qiwei Yao

16273: The port geography of UK international trade

Henry Overman and L. Winters

16271: Uneven geographies of organizational practice: explaining the cross-national transfer and diffusion of ISO 9000

Eric Neumayer and Richard Perkins

16024: Algorists, algorithms, and complexity: an exploration of the Shavian critque of discrete state computation

A.J. Wells

15915: Direct payments in England: factors linked to variations in local provision

Jose Luis Fernandez, Jeremy Kendall, Vanessa Davey and Martin Knapp

15513: Effect of diverging policy across the NHS

Arturo Alvarez-Rosete, Gwyn Bevan, Nicholas Mays and Jennifer Dixon

15326: Post-merger concerns: cultural integration in a multinational corporation

Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo and M. Nolas

14845: From government to governance: external influences on business risk management

Bridget M. Hutter and Clive J Jones

14701: Fertility and union dissolution in Brazil: an example of multi-process modelling using the Demographic and Health Survey calendar data

Tiziana Leone and Andrew Hinde

13982: ICT learning and training: data, policies and practice in selected EU countries

Anne West, Eleanor Stokes, Ann-Katrin Bäcklund, Malene Freudendal, Martine Meusy, Emmanuel Poux and Sigrid Schöpper-Grabe