We exploit a universe dataset of state school students in England with linked test score records to document the … evolution of attainment through school for different ethnic groups. The analysis yields a number of striking findings. First, we … show that, controlling for personal characteristics, all minority groups make greater progress than white students over …

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 …

specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare … students around year-specific catchment boundaries that cannot be exactly anticipated by parents. I find that attending the …

schools and all pupils within these schools to analyse the role of the school in accounting for this variation. We analyse a … and attainment levels at the end of secondary schooling. We examine indicators that were the focus of the school … account for a minority of the variance in pupil attainment, and the extent of the variation accounted for by the school is …