The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales … represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting …

(for example Gibbons & Machin, 2003) that estimates the way in which school quality is capitalised into house prices …. Cheshire and Sheppard 1995 and 1999 estimated hedonic models in which the quality of the secondary school to which a household … was assigned was a significant variable which provided evidence that secondary school quality was being capitalised into …

on the population of pupils entering Secondary school in England from 1996 to 2002. Our study does highlight wide … has changed over these years in terms of the way pupils of different age-11 abilities are sorted into different Secondary …

literature as a source of exogenous variation in education. The Swedish compulsory school reform is one example; the reform …

The introduction of performance-related pay and performance management schemes in the maintained, state, school sector … represents a considerable change in the school management system. This paper combines the results of opinion surveys of classroom … and head teachers with Department for Education and Skills school performance data to consider the operation and impact of …

includes both individual and school level information. Our findings are that geographical distance has little or no impact on …

). The model also shows that cognitive skills strongly affect the decision to move from one school level to the next …, especially after finishing high school, but cannot account for disparities between genders. On the contrary, the substantial …