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Understanding low achievement in English Schools

Kingdon, Geeta; Cassen, Robert - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

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

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Family Income and Tertiary Education Attendance acrossthe EU: An empirical assessment using sibling data

Vandenberghe, Vincent - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

tertiary education than their better-off peers. Thiscorrelation is often used to justify monetary transfers to families with … ability, motivation, education, and other aspects of the youngperson’s experience which differ between families, but are not a …

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Schools in Disadvantaged Areas: Recognising Context and Raising Quality

Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower indisadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has beenfocused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring therelationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the qualityof...

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Parental Investment in Childhood and Later Adult Well-Being: Can More Involved Parents Offset the Effects ofSocioeconomic Disadvantage?

Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

involvement and the gender ofthe parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlierpoverty, especially at … age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest inschool at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education. The … frequency ofoutings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education thanoutings with father, however, neither …

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Refinancing Europe’s Higher Education through Deferredand Income-Contingent Fees: An empirical assessmentusing Belgian, German and UK data

Vandenberghe, Vincent; Debande, O. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

The arguments for refinancing the European Union’s (EU) higher education via highertuition fees largely rest on … adverse selection. These findings prove robust to significantvariations between countries’ unharmonised higher education …

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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 economicoutcomes. The empirical analysis is based on data covering the period1979 to 1996, drawn from the 1979 US National Longitudinal Survey ofYouth. For a sample of...

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Modernisation and Son Preference

Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attractedinternational attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncoverthe factors which may be driving the emergence of these gender gaps.Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...

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Social Indicators and the Study of Inequality

Meyers, Marcia K.; Garfinkel, Irwin - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

[...]The New York City Social Indicators Survey (SIS)project represents one effort to track the consequences ofpolicy reform and devolution for inequality and well-beingin the largest and most diverse city in the United States.The project uses a telephone survey to collect data from arepeated...

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Measuring the Value of Better Schools

Black, Sandra E. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1998

[...]In this paper, I examine two methods of measuringthe value of better schools. One involves following individualsover time to determine how the quality of theirschooling affects outcomes later in their lives; the otherinvolves calculating parental valuation of better schoolstoday. I review...

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The Two-Legged Stool: The Neglected Role of Educational Standards in Improving America’s Public Schools

Betts, Julian R. - University of California <Berkeley, Calif.> / San Diego …; … - 1998

[...]The central point is simple: far and away themost important determinant of how quickly studentslearn is the effort of students themselves. It follows thatan increase in schools’ expectations of students couldhave important effects on the quality of public schooling.By establishing a...

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