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There are large disparities between the achievements, behaviour and aspirations of children in different neighbourhoods - but does this mean that the place where you grow up determines your later life outcomes? Steve Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt outline the findings of a series of CEP...
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There are large disparities between the achievements, behaviour and aspirations of children in different neighbourhoods - but does this mean that the place where you grow up determines your later life outcomes? Steve Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt outline the findings of a series of CEP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774264
Stephen Machin and James Vernoit argue there has been a U-turn in academy schools policy under the new government …
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length of the school calendar on test score performance. Using administrative data from North Carolina public schools, we …
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approach to performance reviews explains why a growing minority of schools have achieved improved goal setting, and improved …
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The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i.e. high unemployment rates and fixedterm contracts) postpone...
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and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises … productivity, particularly for matches between masses and bourgeois. At the same time, only country-wide education ("unified … schooling") renders the masses mobile across regions. Alternatively, schools can be implemented in one region alone ("regional …
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wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …
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Which national education systems deliver the best value for money? Peter Dolton and colleagues rank 30 of the world …'s richest countries based on their expenditure on teacher costs (which account for 80% of education budgets) and the pupil …
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early to judge the Coalition's Academies policy. Although there was a large improvement in the first 200 schools (about 4 … years after conversion), those schools were disadvantaged and underperforming (unlike the more recent academies) and the …
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