Search Results - subject:"Selective Schooling"

Selective Schooling Has Not Promoted Social Mobility in England

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

In this paper we use linked census data to assess whether an academically selective schooling system promotes social … selective schooling system on absolute and relative social class mobility. Our results provide no support for the contention … that the selective schooling system increased social mobility in England, whether considered in absolute or relative terms …

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Selective schooling has not promoted social mobility in England

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

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Date of Birth and Selective Schooling

Hart, Robert A.; Moro, Mirko - 2017

We examine the effects of date of birth on state selective education using the 1944 Education Act in England and Wales as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective school entry – which in our study period meant attending a grammar school – before and after the...

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Date of birth and selective schooling

Hart, Robert A.; Moro, Mirko - 2017

We examine the effects of date of birth on state selective education using the 1944 Education Act in England and Wales as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective school entry - which in our study period meant attending a grammar school - before and after the Act...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724448