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Margaret Leighton

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First Name:Margaret
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Last Name:Leighton
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RePEc Short-ID:ple769
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https://sites.google.com/site/mleighton/

Affiliation

School of Economics and Finance
University of St. Andrews

Fife, United Kingdom
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/economics/
RePEc:edi:destauk (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Leighton, Margaret & Speer, Jamin D., 2023. "Rich Grad, Poor Grad: Family Background and College Major Choice," IZA Discussion Papers 16099, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  2. Leighton, Margaret & Souza, Priscila & Straub, Stéphane, 2016. "Social Promotion in Primary School: Immediate and Cumulated Effects on Attainment," TSE Working Papers 16-649, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).

Articles

  1. Kartika Bhatia & Margaret Leighton, 2024. "Teachers on the Move: Evidence From a Large-Scale Learning Intervention During Lockdown," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 60(7), pages 1002-1020, July.
  2. Leighton, Margaret & Martine, Anitha & Massaga, Julius, 2023. "Fostering early childhood development in low-resource communities: Evidence from a group-based parenting intervention in Tanzania," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 170(C).
  3. Leighton Margaret & Speer Jamin D., 2023. "Major-Occupation Match Quality: An Empirical Measure Based on Relative Productivity," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 23(1), pages 285-292, January.
  4. Leighton, Margaret, 2022. "Mother tongue reading materials as a bridge to literacy," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
  5. Leighton, Margaret & Speer, Jamin D., 2020. "Labor market returns to college major specificity," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
  6. Leighton, Margaret & Souza, Priscila & Stephane, Straub, 2019. "Social Promotion in Primary School: Effects on Grade Progression," Brazilian Review of Econometrics, Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria - SBE, vol. 39(1), July.
  7. Auriel M V Fournier & Angus J Holford & Alexander L Bond & Margaret A Leighton, 2019. "Unpaid work and access to science professions," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(6), pages 1-16, June.

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Working papers

  1. Leighton, Margaret & Speer, Jamin D., 2023. "Rich Grad, Poor Grad: Family Background and College Major Choice," IZA Discussion Papers 16099, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

    Cited by:

    1. Hans Ophem & Jacopo Mazza, 2024. "Educational choice, initial wage and wage growth," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 67(3), pages 1235-1274, September.
    2. Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi & Justman, Moshe, 2024. "Family background, education, and earnings: The limited value of "test-score transmission"," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1388, Global Labor Organization (GLO).

  2. Leighton, Margaret & Souza, Priscila & Straub, Stéphane, 2016. "Social Promotion in Primary School: Immediate and Cumulated Effects on Attainment," TSE Working Papers 16-649, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).

    Cited by:

    1. Servaas van der Berg & Gabrielle Wills & Rebecca Selkirk & Charles Adams & Chris van Wyk, 2019. "The cost of repetition in South Africa," Working Papers 13/2019, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.

Articles

  1. Leighton, Margaret & Speer, Jamin D., 2020. "Labor market returns to college major specificity," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Zhu, Yu & Xu, Lei, 2022. "Returns to Higher Education - Graduate and Discipline Premiums," IZA Discussion Papers 15299, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Eggenberger, Christian & Janssen, Simon & Backes-Gellner, Uschi, 2022. "The value of specific skills under shock: High risks and high returns," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
    3. Manuel Salas-Velasco, 2021. "Mapping the (mis)match of university degrees in the graduate labor market," Journal for Labour Market Research, Springer;Institute for Employment Research/ Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), vol. 55(1), pages 1-23, December.
    4. Gaulke, Amanda P., 2022. "Returns to bachelor’s degree completion among stopouts," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    5. Athey, Susan & Simon, Lisa K. & Skans, Oskar N. & Vikstrom, Johan & Yakymovych, Yaroslav, 2023. "The Heterogeneous Earnings Impact of Job Loss across Workers, Establishments, and Markets," Research Papers 4148, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
    6. Ze Chen & Yuan Wang & Yanjun Guan & Michael Jie Guo & Rong Xu, 2023. "Long‐term effect of childhood pandemic experience on medical major choice: Evidence from the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in China," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 32(5), pages 1120-1147, May.
    7. Karol Kempa, 2022. "Task-specific human capital and returns to specialization: evidence from association football [All about balance? A test of the jack-of-all-trades theory using military enlistment data]," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 74(1), pages 136-154.
    8. David J Deming & Kadeem Noray, 2020. "Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 135(4), pages 1965-2005.
    9. Leighton, Margaret & Speer, Jamin D., 2023. "Rich Grad, Poor Grad: Family Background and College Major Choice," IZA Discussion Papers 16099, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    10. Light, Audrey & Wertz, Sydney Schreiner, 2022. "Should English majors take computer science courses? Labor market benefits of the occupational specificity of major and nonmajor college credits," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).

  2. Auriel M V Fournier & Angus J Holford & Alexander L Bond & Margaret A Leighton, 2019. "Unpaid work and access to science professions," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(6), pages 1-16, June.

    Cited by:

    1. Emilia Del Bono & Greta Morando, 2022. "For some, luck matters more: the impact of the great recession on the early careers of graduates from different socio-economic backgrounds [Cashier or consultant? Entry labor market conditions, fie," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 74(3), pages 869-893.
    2. Finn, Paul, 2021. "Organising for entrepreneurship: How individuals negotiate power relations to make themselves entrepreneurial," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 166(C).
    3. Del Bono, Emilia & Morando, Greta, 2021. "For Some, Luck Matters More: The Impact of the Great Recession on the Early Careers of Graduates from Different Socio-Economic Backgrounds," IZA Discussion Papers 14540, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    4. E. C. M. Parsons & Ashley Scarlett, 2020. "The problem of toxic internships in the environmental field: Guidelines for more equitable professional experiences," Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Springer;Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences, vol. 10(3), pages 352-354, September.

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  1. NEP-EDU: Education (1) 2016-06-04. Author is listed
  2. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2023-06-26. Author is listed
  3. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (1) 2016-06-04. Author is listed

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