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SUMMARY:Alex Vickery (RHUL) "Reaching for the SKY: Parental Investments in Academic Skills and Competition for University Places" - PhD Seminar
DESCRIPTION:See Alex’s personal website here \nAbstract \nI study the development of child academic skills through adolescence in anticipation of entry to university. I look at how heterogeneity in initial household income and child skills affects parents’ decisions to invest in private education for their child\, and how the resulting choices contribute to inequality in university admissions in the first instance\, and also to lower social mobility in terms of lifetime earnings. I use a non-linear factor approach to estimate human capital production functions that are placed within an equilibrium framework to account for the fact that places at top universities are highly attractive but also limited. I find that there are strong complementarities between different academic skills and that private education in one subject can have strong spillover effects on the accumulation of skills in cognate subjects. The implied equilibrium competition for limited places at top universities strongly contributes to low inter-generational social mobility\, and\, conversely\, policies that would limit competition could improve equality and the allocation of talent.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/economics/event/alex-vickery-rhul-reaching-for-the-sky-parental-investments-in-academic-skills-and-competition-for-university-places-phd-seminar/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Carl%20Singleton":MAILTO:c.a.singleton@reading.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Yongda Liu (ICMA) "Internal Information Quality and Financial Policy Peer Effects" - PhD Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Abstract \nThis paper investigates how firms’ internal information quality influences the peer effects in its financial policy. By employing earning announcement speed and insider trading profitability difference as measurements\, we find that firms with low internal information quality have a high propensity of mimicking the capital structure decision of its product market peers and\, by doing so\, firms’ operating performance suffers. Our further analysis shows that poor information quality could amplify the agency problem\, therefore inducing more peer mimicking.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/economics/event/yongda-liu-icma-tbc-phd-seminar/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Carl%20Singleton":MAILTO:c.a.singleton@reading.ac.uk
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