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[Photo: Peter DOLTON] Professor Peter DOLTON
Senior Research Fellow - Education and Skills
Tel:  020 7955 6441
Email: p.dolton@lse.ac.uk
R431  Zone 13

Royal Holloway, University of London
Tel: 01784 443 378
Email: peter.dolton@rhul.ac.uk
Personal WebSite WWW

CEP Publications:

  • The Impact of Computer Use, Computer Skills and Computer Use Intensity: Evidence from WERS 2004.
    Peter Dolton, Panu Pelkonen, August 2007
    Paper No' CEEDP0081: Read Abstract | Full paper (pdf)

  • Use IT or Lose IT? The Impact of Computers on Earnings
    Peter Dolton, Gerry Makepeace, Helen Robinson, June 2007
    Paper No' CEEDP0082: Read Abstract | Full paper (pdf)

  • Teacher Shortage: Another Impending Crisis?
    Arnaud Chevalier, Peter Dolton, October  2004
    Paper No' CEPCP164: Read Abstract | Full paper (pdf)
    This article summarises 'The Labour Market for Teachers' by Arnaud Chevalier and Peter Dolton, chapter 3 of What's the Good of Education? The Economics of Education in the UK edited by Stephen Machin and Anna Vignoles (Princeton University Press,2005).


  • Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in the UK: An Analysis of Graduate Occupation Choice from the 1960s to the 1990s
    Arnaud Chevalier, Peter Dolton, Steven  McIntosh, November 2002
    Paper No' CEEDP0021: Full paper (pdf)

  • The effective use of student time: A stochastic frontier production function case study
    Peter Dolton, Oscar Marcenaro, Lucia Navarro, June 2001
    Paper No' CEEDP0010: Full paper (pdf)

  • Over education in the graduate labour market: Some evidence from alumni data
    Peter Dolton, June 2001
    Paper No' CEEDP0009: Full paper (pdf)

  • The Economic Case for Reforming A Levels
    Peter Dolton, Anna Vignoles, April 1999
    Paper No' CEPDP0422: Read Abstract