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Entry Through the Narrow Door: The Costs of Just Failing High Stakes Exams
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - 2018
In many countries, important thresholds in examinations act as a gateway to higher levels of education and/or good …-secondary high-level academic or vocational track and of starting tertiary education. Those who fail to pass the threshold are also … more likely to drop out of education by age 18, without some form of employment. The moderately high effects of just …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873480
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Labour Market Shocks during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Inequalities and Child Outcomes
Hupkau, Claudia; Isphording, Ingo E.; Machin, Stephen; … - 2020
We study the effect of negative labour market shocks borne by parents during the Covid-19 crisis on resource and time investments in children and the channels through which negative labour market shocks experienced by parents might affect children. Using data collected in the UK before and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497901
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Entry through the narrow door : the costs of just failing high stakes exams
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - 2018
In many countries, important thresholds in examinations act as a gateway to higher levels of education and/or good …-secondary high-level academic or vocational track and of starting tertiary education. Those who fail to pass the threshold are also … more likely to drop out of education by age 18, without some form of employment. The moderately high effects of just …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840777
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Entry through the narrow door : the costs of just failing high stakes exams
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - 2018
In many countries, important thresholds in examinations act as a gateway to higher levels of education and/or good …-secondary high-level academic or vocational track and of starting tertiary education. Those who fail to pass the threshold are also … more likely to drop out of education by age 18, without some form of employment. The moderately high effects of just …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845754
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Labour market shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic, inequalities and child outcomes
Hupkau, Claudia; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Machin, Stephen; … - 2020
We study the effect of negative labour market shocks borne by parents during the Covid-19 crisis on resource and time investments in children and the channels through which negative labour market shocks experienced by parents might affect children. Using data collected in the UK before and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390573
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The Introduction of Academy Schools to England's Education
Eyles, Andrew; Machin, Stephen - 2015
the recent past amongst advanced countries - the introduction of academy schools to English secondary education. Academies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307484
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Autonomous Schools and Strategic Pupil Exclusion
Machin, Stephen; Sandi, Matteo - 2018
This paper studies whether pupil performance gains in autonomous schools in England can be attributed to the strategic exclusion of poorly performing pupils. In England there were two phases of academy school introduction, the first in the 2000s being a school improvement programme for poorly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873482
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Choice, competition and pupil achievement
Gibbons, Stephen; Machin, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2006
Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267737
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New technology in schools: is there a payoff?
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Silva, Olmo - 2006
Despite its high relevance to current policy debates, estimating the causal effect of Information Communication Technology (ICT) investment on educational standards remains fraught with difficulties. In this paper, we exploit a change in the rules governing ICT funding across different school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267741
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Closing the Gap between Vocational and General Education? Evidence from University Technical Colleges in England
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Terrier, Camille; … - 2020
Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have … recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322636