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Schools in disadvantaged areas: recognising context and raising quality

Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the quality of schooling that they provide. The findings suggest that disadvantaged …

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Peer effects in science: evidence from the dismissal of scientists in Nazi Germany

Waldinger, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper analyzes peer effects among university scientists. Specifically, it investigates whether the number of peers and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual endogeneity problems related to estimating peer effects are...

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Paying out and crowding out? The globalisation of higher education

Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We investigate the rapid influx of overseas students into UK higher education and the impact on the number of domestic students. Using administrative data since 1994/5, we find no evidence of crowd out of domestic undergraduate students and indications of increases in the domestic numbers of...

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Money for nothing: estimating the impact of student aid on participation in higher education

Dearden, Lorraine; Fitzsimons, Emla; Wyness, Gill - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Understanding how higher education (HE) finance policy can affect HE decisions is important for understanding how governments can promote human capital accumulation. Yet there is a severe lack of evidence on the effectiveness of student aid in encouraging HE participation outside of the US, and...

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To leave or not to leave? A regression discontinuity analysis of the impact of failing the High School exit exam

Ou, Dongshu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

The high school exit exam (HSEE) is rapidly becoming a standardized assessment procedure for educational accountability in the United States. I use a unique state-specific dataset to identify the effect of failing the HSEE on the likelihood that a student drops out early based on a Regression...

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Understanding low achievement in English schools

Kingdon, Geeta; Cassen, Robert - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper seeks to build a fuller picture of Key Stage 4 low achievement and its correlates than available hitherto. We focus on three aspects. Firstly, the role of students’ personal...

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The effect of parental wealth on children’s outcomes in early adulthood

Karagiannaki, Eleni - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper presents the first UK estimates of the association between parental wealth during adolescence and a range of children’s outcomes in early adulthood. Parental wealth is positively associated with all outcomes examined (which include educational attainment, employment, earnings and...

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The contribution of schooling in development accounting: results from a nonparametric upper bound

Caselli, Francesco; Ciccone, Antonio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels … forms of endogenous technology response to changes in schooling. We also quantify the upper bound for all economies with the …

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Early, late or never? When does parental education impact child outcomes?

Dickson, Matt; Gregg, Paul; Robinson, Harriet - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

end of the compulsory schooling period. We also determine whether there are differential effects for literacy and numeracy …

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Labour force participation of women in India: some facts, some queries

Bhalla, Surjit; Kaur, Ravinder - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

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