We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … a reading assessment, causing students' scores to improve by 0.13 standard deviations immediately after the program. The …

We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … a reading assessment, causing students’ scores to improve by 0.13 standard deviations immediately after the program. The …

We study attitudes to education among English adolescents. Using PISA data, we show there is considerable variation in … also show that students in London have more positive attitudes to education on average, but this is entirely accounted for …

compulsory education (age 16). We find a larger increase in attainment in reading and English for pupils in NLP schools as … Literacy Project (NLP) was undertaken in about 400 English primary schools in 1997 and 1998. We compare the reading and overall … English attainment of children in NLP schools as compared to a set of control schools at the end of primary school education …

compulsory education (age 16). We find a larger increase in attainment in reading and English for pupils in NLP schools as … Literacy Project (NLP) was undertaken in about 400 English primary schools in 1997 and 1998. We compare the reading and overall … English attainment of children in NLP schools as compared to a set of control schools at the end of primary school education …

agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …

entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …