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Post-18 education ? who is taking the different routes and how much do they earn?

This paper describes the educational trajectories and labour market outcomes for people who completed their GCSEs between 2002 and 2006. Our long span of longitudinal data enables us to follow these individuals through t...Read more...

Journal article

Oxford Review of Economic Policy:

Higher education, career opportunities, and intergenerational inequality

The UK government has expressed a desire to increase social mobility, with policies to help achieve this aim focused on reducing inequalities in educational attainment. This paper draws together established and new infor...Read more...

CentrePiece article

In brief... Making a difference in education

A new book by Sandra McNally and colleagues surveys the evidence on which policies and practices are working in UK schools....Read more...

Book

Making a Difference in Education

This book discusses whether education policy has really been guided by the evidence, and explores why the failings of Britain's educational system have been so resistant to change, as well as the success stories that hav...Read more...

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...

CEE/Education and skills special paper

The Determinants of Non-Cognitive and Cognitive Schooling Outcomes. Report to the Department of Children, Schools and Families

The Centre for the Economics of Education was asked to investigate the factors that influence a range of children's academic and non-academic outcomes, including their enjoyment of school, whether they take unauthorised ...Read more...

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...

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...

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

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

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

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

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

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

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

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...

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

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...

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Using Rate of Return Analyses to Understand Sector Skill Needs

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What Should an Index of School Segregation Measure?

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Education Policy in the UK

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

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Book

What's the Good of Education?
The Economics of Education in the UK

Volumes have been written about the value of more and better education. But is there sufficient evidence to support the commonly held belief that we, as individuals and as a community, should be investing more in educati...Read more...

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What's the good of education?

What is the economic value of investments in education made by individuals, firms and governments? A new book edited by Stephen Machin and Anna Vignoles provides top quality empirical evidence on the diverse set of issue...Read more...

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Widening Socio-Economic Gap in UK Higher Education

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

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

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Britain's Record on Skills

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Determinants and Effects of Lifelong Learning

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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

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Relationship between Resource Allocation and Pupil Attainment: A Review

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

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Returns to Academic and Vocational Qualifications in Britain

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CentrePiece article

What will the new centre do? The new centre for the economics of education

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CentrePiece article

Overeducation: a tough nut to crack

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CEP discussion paper

Overeducation and Skills - Clarifying the Concepts

There is now a burgeoning literature on the topic of 'overeducation' (and the complementary concept of 'undereducation'), and a growing quantity of UK empirical evidence on this issue. However, as Joop Hartog indicat...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

The Economic Case for Reforming A Levels

Critics claim that A level students often lack essential skills required for the world of work. In response, the government is proposing to reform the A level system. In future, students may take up to five subjects in t...Read more...

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A Levels: does less mean more?

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