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Stephen Machin and James Vernoit argue there has been a U-turn in academy schools policy under the new government …
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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
length of the school calendar on test score performance. Using administrative data from North Carolina public schools, we …
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running primary school education projects in the rural villages of Andhra Pradesh and Guinea-Bissau. Their initial survey of … two years of extra education that the project provides have scored significantly higher on tests. …
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We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …
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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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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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pre-birth job features and education. We find that around 40 percent of Spanish women who were at work one year before … human capital (experience and higher level of education) increases the probability of staying at work. There is evidence of …
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returns to education are not significantly reduced by this omission bias but there is evidence of substantial returns to the … children from low SES groups. The implications of these results for education are developed. Parental attitudes are much more …
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