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The Impact of Classroom Peer Groups on Pupil GCSE Results

Atkinson, Adele; Burgess, Simon; Gregg, Paul; Propper, Carol - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2008

stratification of pupils by ability. However, within tiers, there is a range of policies between schools regarding setting, ranging … of schools that has apparently random allocation of pupils. As a robustness test of the apparently random setting results …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022163

Peer effects in English Primary schools: An IV estimation on the effect of a more able peer group on age 11 examination results

Proud, Steven - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2010

The magnitude and characteristics of the effect of a child’s peers on their outcomes has long interested researchers and policy makers. In this paper, I take advantage of the correlation between the average outcomes a child’s peer group attains with the distribution of ages within the cohort...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008782830

Girl Power? An analysis of peer effects using exogenous changes in the gender make-up of the peer group.

Proud, Steven - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2009

school cohorts to estimate the effect of a more female peer group, estimated in all schools, and in a subset of schools that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135257

Student effort and educational attainment: Using the England football team to identify the education production function.

Metcalfe, Robert; Burgess, Simon; Proud, Steven - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2011

We use a sharp, exogenous and repeated change in the value of leisure to identify the impact of student effort on educational achievement. The treatment arises from the partial overlap of the world’s major international football tournaments with the exam period in England. Our data enable a...

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