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University access for disadvantaged children: A comparison across English speaking countries

Jerrim, John; Vignoles, Anna; Finnie, Ross - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2012

In this paper we consider whether certain countries are particularly adept (or particularly poor) at getting children from disadvantaged homes to study for a bachelorâ€™s degree. A series of university access models are estimated for four English speaking countries (England, Canada,...

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England's "plummeting" PISA test scores between 2000 and 2009: Is the performance of our secondary school pupils really in relative decline

Jerrim, John - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2011

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study … via a case study for England, where apparent decline in PISA test performance has caused policymakers much concern …. Results suggest that England's drop in the PISA international ranking is not replicated in TIMSS, and that this contrast may …

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Disadvantaged childrenâ€™s ``low'' educational expectations: Are the US and UK really so different to other industrialized nations?

Jerrim, John - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2011

In most countries, children from disadvantaged backgrounds are under-represented amongst the undergraduate population. One explanation is that they do not see higher education as a realistic goal; that it is â€˜not for the likes of themâ€™. In this paper, I use the Programme for...

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Ethnic parity in labour market outcomes for benefit claimants in Great Britain

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Mesnard, Alice; … - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2010

Accurate estimates of the extent of ethnic parity amongst benefit claimants are very important for policymakers who provide interventions for these groups. We use new administrative data on benefit claimants in Great Britain to document differences in labour market outcomes between Ethnic...

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Non-response biases in surveys of school children: the case of the English PISA samples

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; Skinner, Chris - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2010

survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which sets response … enough by the PISA organisers to publish the results, and 2003, when response rates were a little lower and deemed of …

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Do Performance Targets Affect Behaviour? Evidence from Discontinuities in Test Scores in England

Sartarelli, Marcello - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2011

Performance targets are ubiquitous in all areas of an individual's life such as education, jobs, sport competitions and charity donations. In this paper I assess whether meeting performance targets in tests at school has an effect on students' subsequent behaviour. This is helpful to test...

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Measuring school value added with administrative data: the problem of missing variables

Dearden, Lorraine; Miranda, Alfonso; Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2011

The UK Department for Education (DfE) calculates contextualised value added (CVA) measures of school performance using administrative data that contain only a limited set of explanatory variables. Differences on schoolsâ€™ intake regarding characteristics such as motherâ€™s education...

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Akin to my teacher: Does caste, religious or gender distance between student and teacher matter? Some evidence from India

Rawal, Shenila; Kingdon, Geeta - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2010

This paper uses a unique data set from 5028 primary school children in rural India to examine whether the demographic interactions between students and teachers influence student outcomes and whether social distance between student and teacher exacerbates gender, caste and religious gaps in...

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Reducing bias due to missing values of the response variable by joint modeling with an auxiliary variable

Miranda, Alfonso; Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia; McDonald, John W. - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2012

In this paper, we consider the problem of missing values of a continuous response variable that cannot be assumed to be missing at random. The example considered here is an analysis of pupil's subjective engagement at school using longitudinal survey data, where the engagement score from wave 3...

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Teacher Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Pupil-fixed effects estimates for twelve countries

Hein, Christopher F.; Allen, Rebecca - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2013

This paper estimates the relationship between teacher characteristics and teacher quality by applying point-in-time pupil-fixed effects. It uses a large cross-sectional dataset of grade 6 teaching and learning in 12 sub-Saharan countries. The findings are generally in line with the existing...

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