Schools
Exploring what policies and factors are important for raising educational attainment within schools.
Education is one of the biggest areas of government spending. Economists at the CEP have long been involved in evaluating which policies are most effective at improving pupil outcomes in schools. Work has included research into the academies programme (which aims to increase school autonomy), the use of synthetic phonics to teach reading, teacher pay reforms and high-stakes testing.
CEP research on schools also feeds into work in other areas of interest such as the wages, employment and productivity. How does someone's education affect their future earnings? How do education levels correspond to where people find work? And how does this affect the economic success of an area?
Featured Work
Schools Publications
Jo Blanden, Hector Espinoza, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura
25 March 2021
Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli and Birgitta Rabe
15 March 2021
Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Camille Terrier and Guglielmo Ventura
23 December 2020
Jo Blanden and Sandra McNally
5 November 2020
Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
1 September 2020
Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
1 July 2020
Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin
28 May 2020
Andrew Eyles, Steve Gibbons and Piero Montebruno
7 May 2020
Richard Murphy and Felix Weinhardt
1 May 2020
Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi
2 March 2020
Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
1 January 2020
Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi
1 January 2020
Jo Blanden, Sandra McNally and Gill Wyness
27 November 2019
Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin
1 August 2019
Grace Lordan and Alistair McGuire
1 July 2019
Grace Lordan and Alistair McGuire
20 June 2019
Helen Johnson, Sandra McNally, Heather Rolfe, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, Robert Savage, Janet Vousden and Clare Wood
1 June 2019
Pawel Bukowski and Martyna Kobus
1 December 2018
Sandra McNally and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
2 November 2018
Steve Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo
1 October 2018
Richard Murphy, Felix Weinhardt and Gill Wyness
14 August 2018
Helen Johnson, Sandra McNally, Heather Rolfe, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, Robert Savage, Janet Vousden and Clare Wood
1 August 2018
Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo
1 May 2018
Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
13 April 2018
Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva
1 March 2018
Stephen Gibbons, Vincenzo Scrutinio and Shqiponja Telhaj
12 February 2018
Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi
25 January 2018
Andrés Barrios Fernandez and Giulia Bovini
12 December 2017
Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin
1 November 2017
Jon Andrews, Natalie Perera, Andrew Eyles, Gabriel Heller Sahlgren, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi and Olmo Silva
1 July 2017
Dominique Goux, Marc Gurgand and Eric Maurin
1 June 2017
Marta De Philippis
13 December 2016
Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally
13 December 2016
Marty McGuigan, Sandra McNally and Gill Wyness
1 December 2016
Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally
21 November 2016
Andrew Eyles, Claudia Hupkau and Stephen Machin
1 August 2016
Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin
6 November 2015
Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva
4 September 2015
Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin
7 August 2015
Esteban Aucejo and Teresa Foy Romano
26 September 2014
Steve Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt
5 February 2014
Nina Guyon, Eric Maurin and Sandra McNally
1 June 2012
Charlotte Geay, Sandra McNally and Shqiponja Telhaj
21 May 2012
Victor Lavy, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt
1 April 2012
Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo
8 September 2011
Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo
27 August 2011
Steve Gibbons and Olmo Silva
1 July 2011
Sonja Fagernäs and Panu Pelkonen
July 2011
Stephen Machin and James Vernoit
April 2011
Stephen Machin and James Vernoit
18 November 2010
Stephen Machin and James Vernoit
November 2010
Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt
November 2010
Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt
November 2010
Gabrielle Fack and Julien Grenet
October 2010
Stephen Machin and James Vernoit
10 August 2010
Richard Freeman, Stephen Machin and Martina Viarengo
August 2010
Stephen Machin and James Vernoit
July 2010
Francis Green, Stephen Machin, Richard Murphy and Yu Zhu
April 2010
Sandra McNally
April 2010
Ron Boschma, Martin Henning and Frank Neffke
November 2009
Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally
1 June 2008
Francis Green, Stephen Machin, Richard Murphy and Yu Zhu
January 2008
Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Olmo Silva
1 July 2007
Steve Gibbons and Olmo Silva
June 2007
Steve Gibbons and Olmo Silva
November 2006
Richard Belfield and David Marsden
August 2006
Alan Manning and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
June 2006
Steve Gibbons and Shqiponja Telhaj
May 2006
Rebecca Allen and Anna Vignoles
March 2006
Steve Gibbons, Steve Gibbons, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva
January 2006
Richard Belfield and David Marsden
August 2005
Richard Belfield and David Marsden
November 2004