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We document the patterns of neighbourhood and secondary school segregation across England and Scotland. …
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We study the effects of peers on school achievement, with detailed data on children making the same primary to … secondary school transition in consecutive years in England. Our estimates show that secondary school composition, on entry at … age 12, affects achievement at age 14, although the effect sizes are small. These secondary school peer effects originate …
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This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, and from age 15 to 16 in 1973, as sources of exogenous variation in schooling, the regression...
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