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Does Money Matter for Schools?
Holmlund, Helena; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school expenditure has increased by about 40 per cent in real...
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Educational Effects of Widening Access to the Academic Track: A Natural Experiment
Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
It is difficult to know whether widening access to schools which provide a more academically oriented general education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822165
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An Evaluation of “Special Educational Needs” Programmes in England
Keslair, Francois; Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2011
The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … combined direct and indirect (spillover) effects. Thus, the analysis suggests that a key way that English education purports to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371120
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Every Child Matters? An Evaluation of "Special Educational Needs" Programmes in England
Keslair, Francois; Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … combined direct and indirect (spillover) effects. Thus, the analysis suggests that a key way that English education purports to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359857
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Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities
Gibbons, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2011
Improvement of educational attainment in schools in urban, disadvantaged areas is an important priority for policy - particularly in countries like England which have a long tail at the bottom of the educational distribution and where there is much concern about low social mobility. An anomaly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278174
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Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities
Gibbons, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2011
Improvement of educational attainment in schools in urban, disadvantaged areas is an important priority for policy - particularly in countries like England which have a long tail at the bottom of the educational distribution and where there is much concern about low social mobility. An anomaly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293561
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Does school spending matter?
Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
income devoted to education would make much of a difference, they ask what is the ideal balance of spending between early … years, primary and secondary education. They conclude that there is no compelling case to support a transfer of resources … from later stages of education to early years: early years investment may offer higher returns, but the returns erode …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721426
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Every child matters? An evaluation of “Special Educational Needs” programmes in England
Keslair, Francois; Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 932-948
The need for education to help every child has become more important for policy in the US and the UK. Remedial …
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Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities
Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but existing research is equivocal about the effectiveness of additional funding for achieving this objective. This study exploits anomalies in the spatial dimension of school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646299
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In brief: Urban schools: does money make a difference?
Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
This research paper is motivated by a long tail at the bottom of the educational distribution, educational inequality between those from high and low socio-economic groups and the question as to what role an increase in school resources has in changing all this. The issue about whether investing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549057