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The Effect of Tuition Fees on University Applications : Evidence from the UK

Sá, Filipa - 2014

Scotland in 2001 and the increase in fees in England in 2012. The findings suggest that the 2001 reform increased applications …

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The Effect of Personality Traits on Subject Choice and Performance in High School : Evidence from an English Cohort

Mendolia, Silvia - 2014

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, self-esteem and work ethics at age 15, on test scores at age 16, and on subject...

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Gender Differences in Strategic Behaviour Under Competitive Pressure : Evidence on Omission Patterns in University Entrance Examinations

Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2014

This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the exams that the nine Finnish universities providing education in economics and business use to choose their students. These exams are multiple choice tests where wrong answers are...

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The Introduction of Academy Schools to England's Education

Eyles, Andrew - 2015

We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in the recent past amongst advanced countries – the introduction of academy schools to English secondary education. Academies are state schools that are allowed to run in an...

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Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry

Rycx, Francois - 2015

The labour market situation of low-educated people is particularly critical in most advanced economies, especially among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the...

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Returns to Education : The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking

Heckman, James J. - 2016

This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduced form treatment effect literature. It is an empirically robust middle ground between the two...

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The effects of advanced degrees on the wage rates, hours, earnings and job satisfaction of women and men

Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - 2022

This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS over-estimates the returns to degrees with the highest average earnings and...

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Assessing the Variance in Pupil Attainment : How Important is the School Attended?

Wilkinson, David - 2018

We explore the variation in pupil attainment at the end of secondary schooling in England. The paper links data on all …

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Choose the school, choose the performance : new evidence on the determinants of student performance in eight European countries

Bonacini, Luca; Brunetti, Irene; Gallo, Giovanni - 2021

This study aims to identify the main determinants of student performance in reading and maths across eight European Union countries (Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, and Slovenia). Based on student-level data from the OECD’s PISA 2018 survey and by means of the...

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Selective schooling has not promoted social mobility in England

Buscha, Franz; Gorman, Emma; Sturgis, Patrick - 2021

mobility, using England as a case study. Over a period of two decades, the share of pupils in academically selective schools in … England declined sharply and differentially by area. Using a sample of census records matched to administrative data on … that the selective schooling system increased social mobility in England, whether considered in absolute or relative terms …

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