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Urban size, spatial segregation and educational outcomes

Gordon, Ian (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The Impact of School Provision on Pupil Attendance: Evidence From theEarly 20th Century

MacKinnon, Mary; Minns, Chris - McGill University <Montréal> / Department of Economics; … - 2009

attendance impact of grading a school dominated alternatives such as employing more highly qualified teachers, or building …

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An Historical Analysis of the Expansion Of Compulsory Schooling in Europe After the Second World War

Viarengo, Martina - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

From 1945 to 1975, fifteen Western European countries passed school-leaving age laws that raised the number of years of …

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Fact or Fiction? Re-examination of Chinese Premodern Population Statistics

Deng, Kent G. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

Despite the kind of scholarly attention that has been attracted in the field ofChinese economic history in the past half a century or so, basic quantities ofsome basic factors have remained disagreed. Chinese population is one of them.For example, for the post-1350 period, the gap between...

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Growing up: School, family and area influences onadolescents’ later life chances

Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

This paper explores the links between school, family and areabackground influences during adolescence and later adult … Survey ofYouth. For a sample of individuals aged 14 to 19 in 1979, estimates areproduced of the impact of family, school and …

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The Roles of Schooling and Educational Qualificationsin the Emergence of Adult Social Exclusion

Hobcraft, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

In order to assess the roles of schooling and educational qualifications inthe emergence of adult social exclusion, a series of detailed regressionmodels were explored separately for men and women for each of a widerange of indicators of adult disadvantage at both ages 23 and 33,...

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The Class of ’81: The effects of early-careerunemployment on subsequent unemploymentexperiences

Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol; Rees, Hedley; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

yearsof the LFS to create pseudo-cohorts and exploit cross-cohortvariation in unemployment at school-leaving age to identify …

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Schools, Education and Social Exclusion

Sparkes, Jo - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

sustaining social exclusion. Testscores at school are the most effective predictor of many adult outcomes.School attendance and … thatcombinations of social disadvantage powerfully affect school performancewith up to 75% of school variation in 16 year old … attainment at GCSEassociated with pupil intake factors. But school factors can raise attainmentby up to 14 GCSE points for …

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Funding Systems for Doctors, Schools and Social Landlords

Glennerster, Howard; Hills, John; Travers, Tony - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

In the past decade there has been a minor revolution in how local services are funded.Those delivering the services now have their own budgets. How these budgets arecalculated – how Whitehall pulls the purse strings – are now central issues in social policy.In a new book, CASE members...

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SORTING WITH MOTIVATED AGENTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOOLCOMPETITION AND TEACHER INCENTIVES

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

incentive effect. Our analysissuggests that school competition and teacher incentives cannot be studied in isolation from …

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