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Birth order matters: the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2005

their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …

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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents

Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - 2007

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional … transmit the effect of maternal education to the child, including family environment and parental investments at different ages …

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Anatomy of a health scare: education, income and the MMR controversy in the UK

Anderberg, Dan; Chevalier, Arnaud; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2008

One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient …

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Selective schools and academic achievement

Clark, Damon - 2007

In this paper I consider the impact of attending a selective high school in the UK. Students are assigned to these schools on the basis of a test taken in primary school and, using data on these assignment test scores for a particular district, I exploit this rule to estimate the causal effects...

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Graduate employment in the UK: an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model

Grazier, Suzanne; O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2008

supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate …

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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2008

Literature examining immigrants' educational disadvantage across countries focuses generally on average differences in educational outcomes between immigrants and natives disguising thereby that immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group. The aim of this paper is to examine educational...

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Does money matter for schools?

Holmlund, Helena; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2008

There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school expenditure has increased by about 40 per cent in real...

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Labour market mismatch among UK graduates: an analysis using REFLEX data

McGuinness, Seamus; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009

competences. We find substantial pay penalties for over-education for both sexes and for overskilling in the case of men only …. When both education and skill mismatch variables are included together in the model only overskilling reduces job …

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Migrants at school: educational inequality and social interaction in the UK and Germany

Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - 2009

We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...

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What makes a test score? The respective contributions of pupils, schools, and peers in achievement in English primary education

Kramarz, Francis; Machin, Stephen; Ouazad, Amine - 2008

This study develops an analytical framework for evaluating the respective contributions of pupils, peers, and school quality in affecting educational achievement. We implement this framework using rich data from England that matches pupils to their primary schools. The dataset records all...

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