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Widening Participation in Higher Education: Analysis Using Linked Administrative Data
Chowdry, Haroon; Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542901
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Does an aptitude test affect socioeconomic and gender gaps in attendance at an elite university?
Anders, Jake - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2014
difference in differences approach and administrative data from the University of Oxford. The introduction of the test coincided …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850096
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Disadvantaged children’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
disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to expect to complete university than their advantaged peers. I explore this issue across … fortunate families are not as likely to make early plans for university as their affluent peers. Yet the extent to which these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644123
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When you are born matters: the impact of date of birth on educational outcomes in England
Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Meghir, Costas - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542895
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Policy changes in UK higher education funding, 1963-2009
Wyness, Gill - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2010
The subject of how to finance Higher Education (HE) has been on the agenda of successive UK governments since the 1960s. The UK has moved from a situation where the taxpayer footed the entire bill for HE, to a system where graduates themselves must contribute part of the cost of their education....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466002
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Teenagers' expectations of applying to university: how do they change?
Anders, Jake; Micklewright, John - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2013
We show how young people's expectations about application to university change during the teenage years, drawing on the … combination of the two. We document the relationship between expectations about university application and the decision on whether … relate the expectations reported by the teenagers in LSYPE to their actual university application decisions by age 20 or 21 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850100
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Evaluating the provision of school performance information for school choice
Allen, Rebecca; Burgess, Simon - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2011
We develop and implement a framework for determining the optimal performance metrics to help parents choose a school. This approach combines the three major critiques of the usefulness of performance tables into a natural metric. We implement this for 500,000 students in England for a range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010554865
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Can school competition improve standards? The case of faith schools in England
Allen, Rebecca; Vignoles, Anna - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2009
This paper measures the extent to which the presence of religious state-funded secondary schools in England impacts on the educational experiences of pupils who attend neighbouring schools, whether through school effort induced by competition or changes in peer groups induced by sorting....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542902
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Does school autonomy improve educational outcomes? Judging the performance of foundation secondary schools in England
Allen, Rebecca - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2010
Government and researchers use school performance measures such as contextual value-added to claim that giving schools autonomy from local authority control produces superior pupil performance in GCSE examinations. This paper explores the extent to which inferring causality between autonomy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542905
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Selected at seven: The relationships between teachers' judgments and assessments of pupils, and pupils' stream placements
Campbell, Tammy - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2014
Streaming (grouping pupils according to a measure or conception of overall ability for most / all teaching) has greatly increased in prevalence among English primary school children since the turn of the century. Evidence indicates that streaming may disadvantage children in lower groups and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781469