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When you are born matters: The impact of date of birth on educational outcomes in England

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Meghir, Costas - 2010

This paper examines the impact of month of birth on national achievement test scores in England whilst children are in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291785

Comprehensive versus selective schooling in England and Wales: what do we know?

Manning, Alan; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which determined whether they would attend an academically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267419

Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James Joseph; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2005

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274195

Skill Policies for Scotland

Heckman, James Joseph; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274209

Social segregation in secondary schools: how does England compare with other countries?

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke … - 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 …

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Non-response biases in surveys of school children: the case of the English PISA samples

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Skinner, Chris - 2010

thresholds in an attempt to control data quality. We analyse the case of England for 2000 when response rates were deemed high …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276708

Rates of return to schooling and the quality of education in England and Wales

Campbell, David - 2001

estimate of the return to schooling for each local education authority (LEA) in England and Wales. It is found that the return …

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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

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

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

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