resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy …. We report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics … resources can matter for children in the poorest secondary schools, particularly when building on a solid educational or ability …

national tests at the end of primary school. This shows that school resources have an important role to play in improving …

educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school …

) productive entrepreneurship and that it will therefore compete at the individual level for resources with commercial …

practices between schools. Tentative analyses also indicate that counselors reduce students' uncertainty about their own … individual preferences at least to the same extent as uncertainty about objective measures such as employment prospects. …

mechanism to insure themselves against higher degrees of uncertainty within their host countries. Furthermore, this finding …

it is due to greater uncertainty faced by agents. Applying the methodology of Cunha, Heckman, and Navarro (2005) to data … predictable and unpredictable components of earnings have increased in recent years. The increase in uncertainty is substantially … greater for unskilled workers. For less skilled workers, roughly 60% of the increase in wage variability is due to uncertainty …

This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about …