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Pay for performance where output is hard to measure: the case of performance pay for school teachers

Marsden, David; Belfield, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting … performance reviews. Experienced teachers were offered an extended pay scale based on performance instead of seniority, and to … gain access to the new upper pay scale, teachers had to go through a ‘threshold assessment’ based on their professional …

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Performance pay for teachers: linking individual and organisational level targets

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

and head teachers with Department for Education and Skills school performance data to consider the operation and impact of … the new system in England since 2000. We find that teachers’ response to the new system closely resembles that of other … groups of public service workers to similar schemes. In particular, teachers appear not to be greatly motivated by the …

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Quality matters: the expulsion of professors and Ph.D. student outcomes in Nazi Germany

Waldinger, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

I investigate the effect of faculty quality on Ph.D. student outcomes. To address the endogeneity of faculty quality I use exogenous variation provided by the expulsion of mathematics professors in Nazi Germany. I find that faculty quality is a very important determinant of short and long run...

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Capitalising the value of free schools : the impact of supply characteristics and uncertainty

Cheshire, P. C.; Sheppard, Stephen Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

There has been a growing literature in both the US (for example Haurin and Brasington 1996, and Black 1999) and the UK (for example Gibbons & Machin, 2003) that estimates the way in which school quality is capitalised into house prices. Cheshire and Sheppard 1995 and 1999 estimated hedonic...

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Are schools drifting apart? Intake stratification in English secondary schools

Gibbons, Stephen; Telhaj, Shqiponja - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The issue of social segregation in schools has seen a recent resurgence of interest – in the US, UK and internationally – as the debate rages on about whether policies that expand families’ freedom to choose amongst schools encourage divergence or convergence in the types of pupil...

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A researcher's guide to the Swedish compulsory school reform

Holmlund, Helena - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

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...

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A question of degree: the effects of degree class on labor market outcomes

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

In this paper we estimate the sorting effects of university degree class on initial labor market outcomes using a regression discontinuity design that exploits institutional rules governing the award of degrees. Consistent with anecdotal evidence, we find sizeable and significant effects for...

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Over-education and the skills of UK graduates

Chevalier, Arnaud; Lindley, Joanne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by combining occupation codes and a self-reported measure...

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Access, choice and participation in higher education

Gibbons, Steve; Vignoles, Anna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Geographical distance between parental home and college poses a potential barrier to higher education entry, and could be a deciding factor when choosing between institutions. Some students may be constrained in their education choices because they cannot afford to leave home, or have personal...

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Explaining cross-racial differences in the educational gender gap

Aucejo, Esteban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The sizable gender gap in college enrolment, especially among African Americans, constitutes a puzzling empirical regularity that may have serious consequences on marriage markets, male labor force participation and the diversity of college campuses. For instance, only 35.7 percent of all...

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