Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications inEngland. This paper seeks to build … 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 …

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower indisadvantaged areas than others and much recent … ways that are not reflected by the usualindicators of disadvantage. School managers respond by adapting … quality. The paper argues thatbecause school processes and quality are affected by context, schoolimprovement in disadvantaged …

At the end of 2008, the Government set in motion a Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England chaired by Sir … was Howard Glennerster, Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics and a member of CASE. Other members of the …, Director of the Centre for Health Equity Studies at Stockholm University. Kay Withers and Jan Flaherty ably supported the work …

variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual …

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health usingthe Swiss Household Panel … (SHP) and cross-sectional data from the Survey on Health, Ageingand Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Methodologically, it …(b) unobserved negative affectivity in self-report measures of health status... …

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health ofworkers using the German Socio …) cross-sectionalcausality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health thatcomplement self …-reported measures of health status.... …

associated with ill health. In 2007, Workers Compensation (WC) insurance provided$55.4 billion in medical care and cash benefits …

variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition to upper-secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth graders … a large pool of elementary school pupils. I find positive peer effects on achievement growth and no effects for peer …

significantly lower collegepremium with respect to high school graduates than pre-reform graduates.... …