A recent article (Pavelescu, 2009) proposes a correction to the conventional student-t test of significance in linear regression models, but offers no formal description of its properties. This comment formally characterizes the sampling properties of the corrected student-t statistic. In...

Previous work (Bell and Jones, Demogr Res <CitationRef CitationID="CR1">2013a</CitationRef>; Bell and Jones, Soc Sci Med <CitationRef CitationID="CR3">2013c</CitationRef>; Luo and Hodges, Under review <CitationRef CitationID="CR14">2013</CitationRef>) has shown that, when there are trends in either the period or cohort residuals of Yang and Land’s Hierarchical age–period–cohort (APC) model (Yang and Land, Sociol...</citationref></citationref></citationref>

League table information on school effectiveness in England generally relies on either a comparison of the average outcomes of pupils by school, e.g. mean exam scores, or on estimates of the average value added by each school. These approaches assume that the information parents and...

I show that parents select schools by considering attributes of the student-school match that improve the learning outcomes beyond average school quality. Using the centralized algorithm for offers to primary school in London, I compare the achievement of students who are as good as randomly...

Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in London primary schools. I exploit as good as random...

We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits discontinuities in attendance probabilities that occur at unpredictable distance cutoffs used as tiebreakers in admissions processes for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw,...