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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions: Effects of an Information Campaign

University fees have recently trebled in England and there are fears that many young people may be put off from participating in further and higher education – especially those from low income backgrounds. This could exa...Read more...

Martin McGuigan, Sandra McNally and Gill Wyness

24 August 2012

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Do Professors Really Perpetuate the Gender Gap in Science? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a French Higher Education Institution

Stereotypes, role models played by teachers and social norms influence girls’ academic self-concept and push girls to choose humanities rather than science. Do recruiters reinforce this strong selection by discriminating...Read more...

Thomas Breda and Son Thierry Ly

13 June 2012

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Non-Native Speakers Of English In The Classroom: What Are The Effects On Pupil Performance?

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the educational outcomes of nativ...Read more...

Charlotte Geay, Sandra McNally and Shqiponja Telhaj

19 March 2012

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Mental Health and Education Decisions

Mental health problems - and depression in particular - have been rising internationally. The link between poor mental health and poor educational outcomes is particularly interesting in the case of the UK which has a lo...Read more...

Francesca Cornaglia, Elena Crivellaro and Sandra McNally

27 February 2012

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Subjective Performance Evaluation in the Public Sector: Evidence from School Inspections

Performance measurement in the public sector is largely based on objective metrics, which may be subject to gaming behaviour. This paper investigates a novel subjective performance evaluation system where independent ins...Read more...

Iftikhar Hussain

6 February 2012

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance

We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test scores at age seven. Using English register data, we find that scores are .05 to .08 standard deviat...Read more...

Douglas Almond, Bhashkar Mazumder and Reyn van Ewijk

18 January 2012

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Students’ Perceptions of Teacher Biases: Experimental Economics in Schools

We put forward a new experimental economics design with monetary incentives to estimate students’ perceptions of grading discrimination. We use this design in a large field experiment which involved 1,200 British student...Read more...

Amine Ouazad and Lionel Page

12 January 2012

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Valuing School Quality Using Boundary Discontinuities

Existing research shows that house prices respond to local school quality as measured by average test scores. However, higher test scores could signal better quality teaching and academic value-added, or higher ability, ...Read more...

Stephen Gibbons, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva

11 January 2012

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Evaluation of English Education Policies

Educational inequalities are evident even before children start school. Those connected to disadvantage widen out as children progress through the education system and into the labour market. We document various forms of...Read more...

Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally

19 December 2011

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Do Public Colleges in Developing Countries Provide Better Education than Private ones? Evidence from General Education Sector in India

Public college graduates in many developing countries outperform graduates of private ones on the college exit exams. This has often been attributed to the cutting edge education provided in public colleges. However, pub...Read more...

Yona Rubinstein and Sheetal Sekhri

19 December 2011

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

An Evaluation of “Special Educational Needs” Programmes in England

The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of the policy agenda in the US and the UK. Remedial programmes are often difficult to evaluate because par...Read more...

Francois Keslair, Eric Maurin and Sandra McNally

11 November 2011

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities

Improvement of educational attainment in schools in urban, disadvantaged areas is an important priority for policy – particularly in countries like England which have a long tail at the bottom of the educational distribu...Read more...

Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo

8 September 2011

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

From Grants to Loans and Fees: The Demand for Post-Compulsory Education in England and Wales from 1955 to 2008

The UK has progressively moved from a Higher Education (HE) system which is funded at the tax payers’ expense to one which is funded by individual participants (and their parents) by scrapping student grants, introducing...Read more...

Peter Dolton and Li Lin

7 September 2011

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Impact of Tuition Fees and Support on University Participation in the UK

Understanding how policy can affect university participation is important for understanding how governments can promote human capital accumulation. In this paper, we estimate the separate impacts of tuition fees and main...Read more...

Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons and Gill Wyness

8 August 2011

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Are England’s Academies More Inclusive or More ‘Exclusive’? The Impact of Institutional Change on the Pupil Profile of Schools

In 2002 the former Labour government launched the Academies Programme of school improvement. This scheme has targeted entrenched issues of pupil underachievement within state secondary schools located in deprived areas, ...Read more...

Joan Wilson

May 2011

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Post-16 Educational Choices and Institutional Value Added at Key Stage 5

Childcare costs are often viewed as one of the biggest barriers to work, particularly among lone parents on low incomes. Children in England are eligible to attend free part-time nursery classes (equivalent to pre-kinder...Read more...

Claire Crawford, Elena Meschi and Anna Vignoles

April 2011

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Changing School Autonomy: Academy Schools and their Introduction to England's Education

In this paper, we study a high profile case - the introduction of academy schools into the English secondary school sector - that has allowed schools to gain more autonomy and flexible governance by changing their school...Read more...

Stephen Machin and James Vernoit

April 2011

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Do Neighbours Affect Teenage Outcomes? Evidence from Neighbourhood Changes in England

In this paper, we use census data on several cohorts of secondary school students in England matched to detailed information on place of residence to investigate the effect of neighbours’ background characteristics and p...Read more...

Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt

November 2010

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Starting School And Leaving Welfare: The Impact of Public Education on Lone Parents' Welfare Receipt

Mike Brewer and Claire Crawford

October 2010

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Timing of Parental Income and Child Outcomes: The Role of Permanent and Transitory Shocks

How do shocks to parental income drive adolescent human capital, including years of schooling, high school dropout, university attendance, IQ and health? A structural model decomposes household shocks into permanent and ...Read more...

Emma Tominey

October 2010

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When do Better Schools Raise Housing Prices? Evidence from Paris Public and Private Schools

In this paper, we investigate how housing prices react to the quality of education offered by neighbouring public and private schools. The organization of secondary schooling in the city of Paris, which combines residenc...Read more...

Gabrielle Fack and Julien Grenet

October 2010

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Do Differences in School's Instruction Time Explain International Achievement Gaps in Maths, Science and Language? Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries

There are large differences across countries in instructional time in schooling institutions. Can these differences explain some of the differences across countries in pupils’ achievements in different subjects? What is ...Read more...

Victor Lavy

October 2010

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Variation in Educational Outcomes and Policies Across Countries and of Schools within Countries

This study examines the variation in educational outcomes across and within countries using the TIMSS mathematics tests. It documents the wide cross-country variation in the level and dispersion of test scores. Countries...Read more...

Richard B. Freeman, Stephen Machin and Martina Viarengo

August 2010

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Kuznets Curve of Education: A Global Perspective on Education Inequalities

This paper describes global trends in average educational attainment and in education inequality since 1870, improving the database released by Morrisson-Murtin (2009). Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rap...Read more...

Christian Morrisson and Fabrice Murtin

June 2010

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The Changing Economic Advantage From Private School

Despite its relatively small size, the private school sector plays a prominent role in British society. This paper focuses on changing wage and education differentials between privately educated and state educated indivi...Read more...

Francis Green, Stephen Machin, Richard Murphy and Yu Zhu

April 2010

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Interest Subsidies on Student Loans: A Better Class of Drain

Nicholas Barr and Alison Johnston

March 2010

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Valuing School Quality Via School Choice Reform

Among policymakers, educators and economists there remains a strong, sometimes heated, debate on the extent to which good schools matter. This is seen, for instance, in the strong trend towards establishing accountabilit...Read more...

Stephen Machin and Kjell Salvanes

March 2010

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Individual Teacher Incentives, Student Achievement and Grade Inflation

Pedro Martins

March 2010

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

How Much Can We Learn from International Comparisons of Intergenerational Mobility?

This paper summarises research on the relative level of intergenerational mobility – whether classified by income, social class, social status or education – considering observations from 65 countries. With the exception...Read more...

Jo Blanden

November 2009

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Measuring the Returns to Lifelong Learning

This paper investigates the returns to lifelong learning, which is interpreted as the attainment of qualifications following entry into the labour market. For a number of reasons our analysis of the British Household Pan...Read more...

Jo Blanden, Franz Buscha, Patrick Sturgis and Peter Urwin

March 2010

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The Century of Education

This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010, using perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto (2007) database. The correlation bet...Read more...

Christian Morrisson and Fabrice Murtin

September 2009

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Length of Compulsory Education and Voter Turnout - Evidence from a Staged Reform

In this study, a long-term impact of additional schooling at the lower end of the educational distribution is measured on voter turnout. Schooling is instrumented with a staged Norwegian school reform, which increased mi...Read more...

Panu Pelkonen

September 2009

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

To Leave or Not to Leave? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Impact of Failing High School Exit Exam

The high school exit exam (HSEE) is rapidly becoming a standardized assessment procedure for educational accountability in the United States. I use a unique state-specific dataset to identify the effect of failing the HS...Read more...

Dongshu Ou

August 2009

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

An Analysis of the Benefit of NVQ2 Qualifications Acquired at Age 26-34

Anna Vignoles and Augustin de Coulon

October 2008

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Does Money Matter for Schools?

There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to government...Read more...

Helena Holmlund, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo

January 2009

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Parents' Basic Skills and Childrens' Cognitive Outcomes

The main aim of this paper is to assess how parents’ literacy and numeracy affect the cognitive skill of their children. The data used are from the British Cohort Survey (BCS) which provides in 2004 basic skill assessmen...Read more...

Elena Meschi, Anna Vignoles and Augustin de Coulon

December 2008

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

School Quality, Child Wellbeing and Parents Satisfaction

Researchers in economics of education usually assume that parents choose schools for their high academic performance, with some support from revealed preference evidence based on local house prices. However, anecdotal ev...Read more...

Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

January 2009

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What Makes a Test Score? The Respective Contributions of Pupils, Schools and Peers in Achievement in English Primary Education

This study develops an analytical framework for evaluating the respective contributions of pupils, peers, and school quality in affecting educational achievement. We implement this framework using rich data from England ...Read more...

Francis Kramarz, Stephen Machin and Amine Ouazad

January 2009

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Access, Choice and Participation in Higher Education

Geographical distance between parental home and college poses a potential barrier to higher education entry, and could be a deciding factor when choosing between institutions. Some students may be constrained in their ed...Read more...

Stephen Gibbons and Anna Vignoles

January 2009

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Education and Mobility

We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based on a quasi-exogenous staged Norwegian school reform, and register data on the whole population. Based...Read more...

Stephen Machin, Panu Pelkonen and Kjell Salvanes

December 2008

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University Quality and Graduate Wages in the UK

We examine the links between various measures of university quality and graduate earnings in the United Kingdom. We explore the implications of using different measures of quality and combining them into an aggregate mea...Read more...

Iftikhar Hussain, Sandra McNally and Shqiponja Telhaj

March 2009

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Assessed by a Teacher Like Me: Race, Gender and Subjective Evaluations

The underrepresentation of minority teachers and male teachers remains an issue in US elementary education, and there is evidence that racial interactions partly shape student performance. However there is little work on...Read more...

Amine Ouazad

December 2008

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The Convergence of Compulsory Schooling in Western Europe: 1950-2000

This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over the period 1950-2000. We show that a convergence process of mandatory years of schooling has occurred across these coun...Read more...

Fabrice Murtin and Martina Viarengo

November 2008

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Competition for private and state school teachers

Francis Green, Stephen Machin, Richard Murphy and Yu Zhu

January 2008

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

When You Are Born Matters: The Imapct of Date of Birth on Child Cognitive Outcomes in England

Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden and Costas Meghir

October 2007

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The Impact of Early Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills on Later Outcomes

Pedro Carneiro, Claire Crawford and Alissa Goodman

October 2007

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Intergenerational Mobility and Assortative Mating: Effects of an Educational Reform

This paper provides new evidence on the role of the educational system for intergenerational mobility. I evaluate an educational reform, implemented in Sweden in the 1950s and 60s, which postponed tracking and extended c...Read more...

Helena Holmlund

November 2008

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Students' academic self-perception

Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students’ mis-perception of their own and other’s abilit...Read more...

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

January 2008

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Returns to Qualifications in England: Updating the Evidence Base on Level 2 and Level 3 Vocational Qualifications

Charley Greenwood, Andrew Jenkins and Anna Vignoles

September 2007

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there ...Read more...

Josef Fersterer and Jörn-Steffen Pischke

February 2008

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A Researcher's Guide to the Swedish Compulsory School Reform

When studying different types of returns to education, educational reforms are commonly used in the economics literature as a source of exogenous variation in education. The Swedish compulsory school reform is one exampl...Read more...

Helena Holmlund

February 2008

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Studying Abroad and the Effect on International Labor Market Mobility: Evidence from the Introduction of Erasmus

We investigate the e¤ect of studying abroad on international labor market mobility later in life for German university graduates. As a source of identifying variation, we exploit the introduction and expansion of the ERA...Read more...

Matthias Parey and Fabian Waldinger

August 2007

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Educational Effects of Widening Access to the Academic Track: A Natural Experiment

It is difficult to know whether widening access to schools which provide a more academically oriented general education makes a difference to average educational achievement. We make use of reforms affecting admission to...Read more...

Eric Maurin and Sandra McNally

August 2007

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Is Free School Meal Status a Valid Proxy for Socio-Economic Status (in Schools Research)?

Graham Hobbs and Anna Vignoles

May 2007

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Mobility and School Disruption

We consider the influence that mobile pupils have on the academic achievements of other pupils in English primary schools. We find that immobile pupils in year-groups (à la US “grades”) that experience high pupil entry r...Read more...

Stephen Gibbons and Shqiponja Telhaj

August 2007

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Use IT or Lose IT? The Impact of Computers on Earnings

The extent to which the impact of computer skills depends on how computers are used is investigated using British data from an establishment survey, cohort studies and the European E-Living survey. We examine the importa...Read more...

Peter Dolton, Gerry Makepeace and Helen Robinson

June 2007

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The Impact of Computer Use, Computer Skills and Computer Use Intensity: Evidence from WERS 2004.

Computers and ICT have changed the way we live and work. The latest WERS 2004 provides a snapshot of how using ICT at the workplace has changed our working lives. Various studies have suggested that the use of a computer...Read more...

Peter Dolton and Panu Pelkonen

August 2007

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Urban Density and Pupil Attainment

We explore the association between urban density and pupil attainment using three cohorts of pupils in schooling in England. Although – as widely recognised – attainment in dense urban places is low on average, this is n...Read more...

Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

May 2007

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Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates

During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We def...Read more...

Arnaud Chevalier and Joanne Lindley

August 2007

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The effects of higher education funding reforms on the lifetime incomes of graduates

This paper undertakes a quantitative analysis of substantial reforms to the system of higher education (HE) finance first announced in 2004 and then revised again in July 2007. The reforms introduced deferred fees for HE...Read more...

Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons, Alissa Goodman and Greg Kaplan

January 2008

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The Value of Basic Skills in the British Labour Market

In this paper we evaluate the labour market value of basic skills in the UK, focusing on the wage and employment returns to having better literacy and numeracy skills. We draw on literacy and numeracy assessments underta...Read more...

Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez, Anna Vignoles and Augustin de Coulon

May 2007

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Resources and Standards in Urban Schools

Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an Englis...Read more...

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Costas Meghir

February 2007

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Higher Education Academic Salaries in the UK

The recent industrial action taken by the Association of University Teachers (AUT) has given the issue of academic pay high prominence in the UK press. There appears to be a remarkable consensus that higher education aca...Read more...

Mark Collins, Anna Vignoles and James Walker

May 2007

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The Long Term Impacts of Compulsory Schooling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in School Leaving Dates

This paper investigates a unique feature of the English educational system to estimate the causal effect of compulsory schooling on labour market outcomes. We examine school leaving rules that allow for discrete variatio...Read more...

Emilia Del Bono and Fernando Galindo-Rueda

January 2007

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Accounting for Intergenerational Income Persistence: Non-Cognitive Skills, Ability and Education

We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level...Read more...

Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan and Lindsey Macmillan

September 2006

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Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils?

We provide estimates of the effect of attending a Faith school on educational attainment progress during the Primary education phase in England. We argue that there are no credible instruments for Faith school attendance...Read more...

Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

November 2006

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Sheepskin or Prozac: The Causal Effect of Education on Mental Health

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of educatio...Read more...

Arnaud Chevalier and L Feinstein

August 2006

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Using Rate of Return Analyses to Understand Sector Skill Needs

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Anna Vignoles

July 2006

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Education, Occupation and Career Expectations: Determinants of the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates

A large proportion of the gender wage gap is usually left unexplained. In this paper, we investigate whether the unexplained component is due to misspecification. Using a sample of recent UK graduates, we introduce varia...Read more...

Arnaud Chevalier

August 2006

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Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School

Children’s outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar chara...Read more...

Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin

July 2006

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The Mobility of English School Children

In this paper we examine links between pupil mobility and pupil and school characteristics at all levels of compulsory schooling in England. We derive measures of mobility from two academic years of the Pupil Level Annua...Read more...

Stephen Machin, Shqiponja Telhaj and Joan Wilson

May 2006

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Comprehensive Versus Selective Schooling in England and Wales: What Do We Know?

British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam ...Read more...

Alan Manning and Jörn-Steffen Pischke

June 2006

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with r...Read more...

Andreas Ammermueller and Jörn-Steffen Pischke

May 2006

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Are Schools Drifting Apart? Intake Stratification in English Secondary Schools

The issue of social segregation in schools has seen a recent resurgence of interest – in the US, UK and internationally – as the debate rages on about whether policies that expand families’ freedom to choose amongst scho...Read more...

Stephen Gibbons and Shqiponja Telhaj

December 2006

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Peer Effects and Pupil Attainment: Evidence from Secondary School Transition

It is a common belief that children will thrive if educated amongst better class and schoolmates. It is a belief that guides many parents in their choice of school, and has important implications for policy on school cho...Read more...

Stephen Gibbons and Shqiponja Telhaj

May 2006

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From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether...Read more...

Sandra E. Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell Salvanes

March 2006

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What Should an Index of School Segregation Measure?

Rebecca Allen and Anna Vignoles

March 2006

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Which Skills Matter?

Pedro Carneiro, Claire Crawford and Alissa Goodman

July 2006

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Gender and Student Achievement in English Schools

The widening gap between the average educational achievement of boys and girls has been the subject of much discussion. This gap is especially controversial for students taking national exams at the end of their compulso...Read more...

Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally

February 2006

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Education Policy in the UK

Stephen Machin and Anna Vignoles

March 2006

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Competition, Choice and Pupil Achievement

Stephen Gibbons, Stephen Gibbons, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva

January 2006

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

New Technology in Schools: Is There a Payoff?

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Olmo Silva

January 2006

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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation

Jörn-Steffen Pischke and Till von Wachter

January 2006

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Education Subsidies and School Drop-Out Rates

Lorraine Dearden, Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne, Costas Meghir and Costas Meghir

January 2006

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The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in Secondary Schools: Understanding the Changing Role of Ability

Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles

June 2005

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Should Research Universities be led by top researchers? Part 1: Are they?

Amanda Goodall

June 2005

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The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Children's Education

There is an extensive theoretical literature that postulates a trade off between child quantity and quality within a family. However, there is little causal evidence that speaks to this theory. Using a rich dataset on th...Read more...

Sandra E. Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell Salvanes

June 2005

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Vive la Revolution! Long term returns of 1968 to the angry students

Eric Maurin and Sandra McNally

June 2005

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The Role of Credit Constraints in Educational Choices: Evidence from NCDS and BCS70

Lorraine Dearden, Leslie McGranahan and Barbara Sianesi

December 2004

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Evaluating the Impact of Education on Earnings in the UK: Models, Methods and Results from the NCDS

Richard Blundell, Lorraine Dearden and Barbara Sianesi

December 2004

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An In-Depth Analysis of the Returns to National Vocational Qualifications Obtained at level 2

Lorraine Dearden, Leslie McGranahan and Barbara Sianesi

December 2004

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Returns to Education for the 'Marginal Learner': Evidence from the BCS70

Lorraine Dearden, Leslie McGranahan, Leslie McGranahan and Barbara Sianesi

December 2004

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The Widening Socio-Economic Gap in UK Higher Education

Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez and Anna Vignoles

December 2004

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The Literacy Hour

Literacy matters. One in five adults in the UK is not functionally literate and this has serious implications for their well-being and economic circumstances, as well as for national productivity. To ensure that this pro...Read more...

Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally

December 2004

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Paying for primary schools: supply constraints, school popularity or congestion?

Stephen Gibbons and Stephen Machin

December 2004

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Family Income and Educational Attainment: A Review of Approaches and Evidence for Britain

Jo Blanden and Paul Gregg

September 2004

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Parental Education and Child's Education: A Natural Experiment

Arnaud Chevalier

September 2004

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Women, Lifelong Learning and Employment

Andrew Jenkins

September 2004

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Specialist Schools

Andrew Jenkins and Rosalind Levacic

September 2004

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Regional Variations in Adult Learning and Vocational Training: Evidence from NCDS and WERS 98

Andrew Jenkins and Alison Wolf

January 2004

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The Labour Market Impact of Adult Education and Training: A cohort analysis

L Feinstein, Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles

January 2004

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Further Analysis of the Returns to Academic and Vocational Qualifications

Steven McIntosh

January 2004

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The Impact of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German short school years

Jörn-Steffen Pischke

January 2004

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Does it pay to attend a prestigious university?

Arnaud Chevalier and Gavan Conlon

May 2003

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Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain

Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles

May 2003

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Employer Learning and Schooling-Related Statistical Discrimination in Britain

Fernando Galindo-Rueda

May 2003

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Are Education Subsides an Efficient Redistributive Device?

Robert Dur and Coen Teulings

May 2003

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The Growth of Psychometric Testing for Selection Why Has Test Use Increased,Will Growth Continue, and What Does This Mean for Education?

Andrew Jenkins and Alison Wolf

June 2002

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Monotonicity and the Roy Model

Arnaud Chevalier and Gauthier Lanot

June 2002

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Why Do Employers Use Selection Tests? Evidence from British Workplaces

Andrew Jenkins and Alison Wolf

June 2002

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Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain

This paper flatly contradicts the common view that anyone can make it in modern Britain. Indeed, rather then weakening, the link between an individual's earnings and those of his or her parents has strengthened. An impor...Read more...

Jo Blanden, Alissa Goodman, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin

June 2002

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Geography, Resources and Primary School Performance

Stephen Gibbons

June 2002

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Participation in Post Compulsory Education in England: What explains the Boom and Bust

Damon Clark

April 2002

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Britain's Record on Skills

Richard Layard, Steven McIntosh and Anna Vignoles

May 2002

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Returns to Education: Evidence from UK Twins

Dorothe Bonjour, Lynn Cherkas, Jonathan Haskel, Denise Hawkes and Tim Spector

April 2002

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

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April 2002

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Neighbourhood Effects on Educational Achievement

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Paying for good neighbours? Neighbourhood deprivation and the communiy benefits of education

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October 2001

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Estimating the Returns to Education: Models, Methods and Results

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Valuing Primary Schools

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The effect of a social experiment in education

The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education reform in Sweden which wa...Read more...

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The incidence and outcomes associated with the late attainment of qualifications in the United Kingdom

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Companies use of psychometric testing and the changing demand for skills: A review of the literature

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The differential in earnings premia between academically and vocationally trained males in the United Kingdom

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June 2001

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The effective use of student time: A stochastic frontier production function case study

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June 2001

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Over education in the graduate labour market: Some evidence from alumni data

Peter Dolton

June 2001

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The relative effect of family and financial characteristics on educational echievement

Arnaud Chevalier and Gauthier Lanot

April 2001

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Graduate over-education in the UK

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November 2000

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Returns to Education: A Review of Evidence, Issues and Deficiencies in the Literature

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Returns to Academic and Vocational Qualifications in Britain

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Measuring and Assessing the Impact of Basic Skills on Labour Market Outcomes

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November 2000

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Relationship between Resource Allocation and Pupil Attainment: A Review

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November 2000

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

An Audit of the Data Needs of the DfEE Centres on the Economics of Education and the Wider Benefits of Learning

Tanvi Desai, Estela Montado and Anna Vignoles

November 2000

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