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, responds to a wide range of variables, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work …
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We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner has both a direct and an indirect negative effect on the performance of monitored classes in standardized educational tests. The direct effect is the difference in the test performance between classes of the same...
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pathways by which parental status is related to offspring status, including education, labor market attachment, occupation … because of the higher returns to education and skills, the pathway through offspring education is relatively more important …
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This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several …
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When studying different types of returns to education, educational reforms are commonly used in the economics … literature as a source of exogenous variation in education. The Swedish compulsory school reform is one example; the reform … extended compulsory education throughout the country, in different municipalities at different points in time. Such variation …
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education credentials in the labour market. …
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and head teachers with Department for Education and Skills school performance data to consider the operation and impact of …
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In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources … from Britain. A robust finding is that criminal activity is negatively associated with higher levels of education. However …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the …
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productivity, particularly for matches between masses and bourgeois. At the same time, only country-wide education ("unified … education") or the regionally dominant group can choose to implement schooling in its own region but refuse to share the costs …
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The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting performance reviews. Experienced teachers were...
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