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The distribution of school funding and inputs in England: 1993-2013

Sibieta, Luke - 2015

School funding per pupil increased substantially between 1999-00 and 2012-13 in England. It also became more varied across schools with higher levels of funds targeted at more deprived schools. Real-terms increases in funding per pupil were much larger for the most deprived group of primary and...

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Econometrics of valuing income contingent student loans using administrative data: Groups of English students

Britton, Jack; Shephard, Neil G.; van der Erve, Laura - 2019

Income contingent loans are an increasingly popular tool for funding higher education. These loans have desirable features, but also potentially high overall government write-offs in the long run. This latter fact has been well documented, but little is known about how those write-offs vary by...

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Education subsidies and school drop-out rates

Dearden, Lorraine; Emmerson, Carl; Frayne, Christine; … - 2005

are made. The impact of the subsidy is quite substantial with initial participation rates (at age 16/17) being around 4 ….5 percentage points higher. Full-time participation rates one year later are found to have increased by around 6.4 percentage … vary by eligibility group with those receiving the full payment having the largest initial increase in participation …

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Educational reform, ability and family background

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 2004

In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational attainment and earnings. The reform, which has many common elements with reforms in other European countries including the UK, consisted of increasing compulsor schooling,...

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Educational reform, ability and family background

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2004

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Education subsidies and school drop-out rates

Dearden, Lorraine; Emmerson, Carl; Frayne, Christine; … - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005

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Credit counseling: A substitute for consumer financial literacy?

Disney, Richard; Gathergood, John; Weber, Jörg - 2014

Is financial literacy a substitute or complement for financial advice? In this paper we analyze the decision by consumers to seek financial advice in the form of credit counseling concerning their credit and debt. Credit counseling is an important component of the consumer credit sector for...

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Education policy and intergenerational transfers in equilibrium

Abbott, Brant; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Meghir, Costas; … - 2013

college participation. We build an overlapping generations life-cycle, heterogeneous-agent, incomplete-markets model with …

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The impact of tuition fees and support on university participation in the UK

Dearden, Lorraine; Fitzsimons, Emla; Wyness, Gill - 2011

Understanding how policy can affect university participation is important for understanding how governments can promote … pseudo-panel of university participation of cohorts defined by sex, region of residence and family background, and estimate a … negative effect on participation, with a £1,000 increase in fees resulting in a decrease in participation of 3.9 percentage …

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Education policy and intergenerational transfers in equilibrium

Abbott, Brant; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Meghir, Costas; … - 2018

participation. We build an overlapping generations life cycle model with education, labor supply, and consumption/saving decisions …

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