Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal … density of social housing, on the educational attainment of fourteen years old students in England. To identify the causal …

The high school exit exam (HSEE) is rapidly becoming a standardized assessment procedure for educational accountability … that a student drops out early based on a Regression Discontinuity design. It shows that students who barely fail the exam … to a large proportion of the dropout probability of barely-failers, particularly for minority and low-income students …

Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper seeks to build …. Firstly, the role of students’ personal characteristics, especially gender, ethnicity and past achievement, in explaining the … correlation with unobserved school and neighborhood quality, i.e. the role of sorting into schools and neighborhoods of different …

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 postgraduate students as overseas enrolments have grown. We interpret this as …

in 2004, when maintenance grants were introduced for students from low income families, having been abolished since 1999 …. This reform occurred in isolation of any other policy changes, and did not affect students from relatively better off …