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Rising unemployment and housing price appreciation are associated with increased college enrollment. Enrollment does not, however, guarantee completion. We use a discrete time, competing hazard function that accommodates individual-specific heterogeneity to assess the impact changing...
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We study attitudes to education among English adolescents. Using PISA data, we show there is considerable variation in these attitudes depending on background: immigrant students have substantially and significantly more positive attitudes to school than native children, a difference that...
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Linking the Workplace Employment Relations Surveys 2004 and 2011 to administrative data on pupil attainment in England …
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This paper assesses the relative importance of local labour market conditions and pupil educational attainment as primary determinants of the post-compulsory schooling decision. Using a nested logit model we formally incorporate the structured and sequential decision process pupils engage with....
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We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased)...
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This paper uses a regression-discontinuity design to identify the causal impact of degree class on the first destinations of UK graduates. We exploit the discontinuous relationship between degree class and the mean grade achieved by graduates in their last year at university, which is induced by...
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thresholds in an attempt to control data quality. We analyse the case of England for 2000 when response rates were deemed high …
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social housing, on the educational attainment of fourteen years old students in England. To identify the causal impact, this …
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anomalies in the spatial dimension of school funding policy in England to provide new evidence on this question. An "area cost … educational attainment. The results have direct implications for the current "Pupil Premium" policy in England …
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educational achievement survey Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for England. The analysis exploits unusually …
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