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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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Education and mobility

Machin, Stephen; Pelkonen, Panu; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2008

We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …

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Education expansion and intergenerational mobility in Britan

Machin, Stephen - In: Schools and the equal opportunity problem, (pp. 29-50). 2007

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Youth crime and education expansion

Machin, Stephen; Marie, Olivier; Vujić, Sunčica - 2012

We present new evidence on the causal impact of education on crime, by considering a large expansion of the UK post …-compulsory education system that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The education expansion raised education levels across the … whole education distribution and, in particular for our analysis, at the bottom end enabling us to develop an instrumental …

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