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The dynamics of school attainment of England's ethnic minorities

Wilson, Deborah; Burgess, Simon; Briggs, Adam - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We exploit a universe dataset of state school students in England with linked test score records to document the evolution of attainment through school for different ethnic groups. The analysis yields a number of striking findings. First, we show that, controlling for personal characteristics,...

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Education and health knowledge: evidence from UK compulsory schooling reforms

Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …

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Employment after motherhood: a European comparison

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

lowest rates of staying on in the labour market after childbearing. Higher education is a key explanatory factor of the …), education and part-time employment. …

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Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods

Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales. We find that educational composition of the larger neighbourhood can influence the dropout...

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Employment penalty after motherhood in Spain

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

pre-birth job features and education. We find that around 40 percent of Spanish women who were at work one year before … human capital (experience and higher level of education) increases the probability of staying at work. There is evidence of …

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The impact of the labour market on the timing of marriage and births in Spain

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i.e. high unemployment rates and fixedterm contracts) postpone...

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Assessing the effect of school days and absences on test score performance

Aucejo, Esteban; Romano, Teresa - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

While instructional time is viewed as crucial to learning, little is known about the effectiveness of reducing absences relative to increasing the number of school days. In this regard, this paper jointly estimates the effect of absences and length of the school calendar on test score...

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Valuing school quality using boundary discontinuities

Gibbons, Stephen; Machin, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Existing research shows that house prices respond to local school quality as measured by average test scores. However, higher test scores could signal better quality teaching and academic value-added, or higher ability, sought-after intakes. In our research, we show decisively that value-added...

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Everybody needs good neighbours?: evidence from students' outcomes in England

Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We use administrative data to estimate the effect of neighbourhood composition on teenagers’ educational and behavioural outcomes in England. We exploit a unique research design based on changes over time in neighbourhood composition experienced by residentially immobile students, where these...

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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

We study the intergenerational effects of parents’ education on their children’s educational outcomes. The endogeneity … of parental education is addressed by exploiting the exogenous shift in education levels induced by the 1972 Raising of …. We find that increasing parental education has a positive causal effect on children’s outcomes that is evident at age 4 …

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