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When the Cat is Near, the Mice Won't Play: The Effect of External Examiners in Italian Schools
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner has both a direct and an indirect negative effect on the performance of monitored classes in standardized educational tests. The direct effect is the difference in the test performance between classes of the same...
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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes
Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There are many potential channels for this effect, although, as usual, identifying a causal relationship is difficult. We appeal to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map...
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Schooling, Nation Building and Industrialization: A Gellnerian Approach
Hauk, Esther; Ortega, Javier - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
productivity, particularly for matches between masses and bourgeois. At the same time, only country-wide education ("unified … education") or the regionally dominant group can choose to implement schooling in its own region but refuse to share the costs …
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The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa: Results from the CREO Study in Guinea-Bissau
Boone, Peter; Fazzio, Ila; Jandhyala, Kameshwari; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We conducted a survey covering 20% of villages with 200-1000 population in rural Guinea-Bissau. We interviewed household heads, care-givers of children, and their teachers and schools. We analysed results from 9,947 children, aged 7-17, tested for literacy and numeracy competency. Only 27% of...
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The Crime Reducing Effect of Education
Machin, Stephen; Marie, Olivier; Vujic, Suncica - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources … from Britain. A robust finding is that criminal activity is negatively associated with higher levels of education. However …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the …
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Pay for Performance Where Output is Hard to Measure: the Case of Performance Pay for School Teachers
Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting performance reviews. Experienced teachers were...
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Performance Pay for Teachers: Linking Individual and Organisational Level Targets
Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005
and head teachers with Department for Education and Skills school performance data to consider the operation and impact of …
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Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain
Blanden, Jo; Goodman, Alissa; Gregg, Paul; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
This paper compares and contrasts estimates of the extent of intergenerational income mobility over time in Britain. Estimates based on two British birth cohorts show that mobility appears to have fallen in a cross-cohort comparison of people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s (the 1958 birth...
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Quality Matters - the Expulsion of Professors and Ph.D. Student Outcomes in Nazi Germany
Waldinger, Fabian - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
I investigate the effect of faculty quality on Ph.D. student outcomes. To address the endogeneity of faculty quality I use exogenous variation provided by the expulsion of mathematics professors in Nazi Germany. I find that faculty quality is a very important determinant of short and long run...
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Is There an Impact of Household Computer Ownership on Childrens Educational Attainment in Britain?
Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
If personal computers (PCs) are used to enhance learning and information gathering across avariety of subjects, then a home computer might reasonably be considered an input in aneducational production function. Using data on British youths from the British HouseholdPanel Survey between 1991 and...
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