develop multi-cultural skills and increasing the quality of universities. We isolate three effects: 1) a competition effect … that raises quality; 2) a free rider effect that lowers quality; 3) a composition effect that influences the relative …

probability (relative to nongraduates)of employment of college graduates in the age range 25-34; (ii) their quality ofemployment …

highereducation costs, through income-contingent and deferred instruments, does notsignificantly affect the private rate of return of …

correlation with unobserved school and neighborhood quality, i.e. the role ofsorting into schools and neighborhoods of different … quality. We suggest a method ofcalculating school quality (how effective a school is in helping its pupils to avoid … measure of ‘school quality’. Thirdly, thepaper examines the relationship between school resources – particularly per …

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower indisadvantaged areas than others and much recent … policy attention has beenfocused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring therelationships between … quality. The paper argues thatbecause school processes and quality are affected by context, schoolimprovement in disadvantaged …