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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries
Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2008
Literature examining immigrants' educational disadvantage across countries focuses generally on average differences in educational outcomes between immigrants and natives disguising thereby that immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group. The aim of this paper is to examine educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652710
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Does money matter for schools?
Holmlund, Helena (contributor); McNally, Sandra (contributor) - 2008
. In this paper we address this issue for England using much better data than what has generally been used in such studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763143
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Are over-educated people insiders or outsiders? : a case of job search methods and over-education in UK
Kucel, Aleksander (contributor); Byrne, Delma (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770251
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Social class and undergraduate degree subject in the UK
Bratti, Massimiliano (contributor) - 2006
Although past research has found strong social class effects on the decision to undertake higher education in the UK, there is only sparse empirical work investigating social class influences on the choice of degree subject at the undergraduate level. Using Universities' Statistical Record data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278958
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Non-pecuniary returns to higher education : the effect on smoking intensity in the UK
Miranda, Alfonso (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper we investigate whether higher education (HE) produces non-pecuniary returns via a reduction in the consumption of health-damaging substances. In particular, the paper focuses on studying the smoking intensity of British individuals. We use data on current smokers from the 1970...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310962
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Social segregation in secondary schools : how does England compare with other countries?
Jenkins, Stephen (contributor);  … - 2006
We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England’s secondary schools, employing a cross … for sampling variation in the estimates. England is shown to be a middle-ranking country, as is the USA. High segregation … Scotland. In explaining England’s position, we argue that its segregation is mostly accounted for by unevenness in social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003332856
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Higher education effects in job and marital satisfaction : theory and evidence
Tampieri, Alessandro - 2010
This paper examines how educational decisions affect job and marital satisfaction. We build up a model with educational assortative matching where individuals decide whether to attend university both for obtaining job satisfaction and for increasing the probability to be matched with an educated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936606
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An evaluation of single and mixed gender computer science classes
Weber, Andrea (contributor) - 2007
Discussions on the benefits of single-gender education on girls’ science outcomes are popular in the German education literature. However, most empirical evidence tends to be qualitative work and the causal effects of single-gender education are hardly identified using appropriate statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003575421
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Starting school and leaving welfare : the impact of public education on lone parents' welfare receipt
Brewer, Mike; Crawford, Claire - 2010
. Children in England are typically eligible to start school - and thus access a number of hours of free public education - on 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008653550
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Birth weight and the dynamics of early cognitive and behavioural development
Del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John - 2009
In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. In order to deal with the endogeneity of birth weight we use an estimator based on the eliminant method. When coupled with ordinary least squares,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877311