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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society:

‘Making it count’: incentives, student effort and performance

The paper examines how incentives to participate in on-line assessments (quizzes) affect students' effort and performance. Our identification strategy exploits within-student weekly variation in incentives to attempt on-...Read more...

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Journal of Political Economy:

Economic uncertainty, parental selection, and children’s educational outcomes

After the fall of the BerlinWall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We show that the children born during this transition period performed worse on a ra...Read more...

CentrePiece article

Long shadow of the Berlin Wall

Do people born at different points of the economic cycle have different outcomes – and if so, why? Arnaud Chevalier and Olivier Marie examine the educational attainment and criminal activity of children born in East Germ...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Foot...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the 'Children of the Wall'

We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertai...Read more...

CentrePiece article

Assessing pupils' abilities

Stephen Gibbons and Arnaud Chevalier investigate differences between pupils' test scores and their teachers' assessments....Read more...

CEP discussion paper

Anatomy of a Health Scare: Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK

One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly absorb new health-related information. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) controversy provides a case...Read more...

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

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...

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

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...

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

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...

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

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...

CentrePiece article

Teacher Shortage: Another Impending Crisis?

How can the UK education system recruit and retain the high-quality teachers it needs, especially for the places and subjects where there are severe shortages? Arnaud Chevalier and Peter Dolton examine the role of pay an...Read more...

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Parental Education and Child's Education: A Natural Experiment

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Does it pay to attend a prestigious university?

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Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in the UK: An Analysis of Graduate Occupation Choice from the 1960s to the 1990s

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Monotonicity and the Roy Model

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Estimates of the Effect of Wages on Job Satisfaction

Empirical studies on job satisfaction have relied on two hypotheses: firstly, that wages are exogenous in a job satisfaction regression and secondly, that appropriate measures of relative wage can be inferred. In this pa...Read more...

CentrePiece article

By Choice or by Chance

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CEP discussion paper

The Long-Run Labour Market Consequences of Teenage Motherhood in Britain

Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However, the decisions to be a teenage mother, to quit school, and be less attached to the labour market might a...Read more...

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The relative effect of family and financial characteristics on educational echievement

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Graduate over-education in the UK

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