significance for public policy for education, cities and social mobility. …

Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal … density of social housing, on the educational attainment of fourteen years old students in England. To identify the causal …

, especially at age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest in school at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education … type of involvement and the gender of the parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlier poverty …. The frequency of outings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education than outings with father …

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … dataset containing grades given by teachers, scores obtained anonymously by pupils at different ages, and their course choice … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …

This paper explores the links between school, family and area background influences during adolescence and later adult …, school and local area when growing up, on earnings capacity and poverty risk once they reach adulthood. …

information on the performance of high-school students and exploit the variation in the stakes of tests, which range from 5% to 27 …% of the final grade. We find that female students outperform male students relatively more when the stakes are low. The … gender gap disappears in tests taken at the end of high school, which count for 50% of the university entry grade. …

We investigate the rapid influx of overseas students into UK higher education and the impact on the number of domestic … students. Using administrative data since 1994/5, we find no evidence of crowd out of domestic undergraduate students and … indications of increases in the domestic numbers of postgraduate students as overseas enrolments have grown. We interpret this as …

Understanding how higher education (HE) finance policy can affect HE decisions is important for understanding how … in 2004, when maintenance grants were introduced for students from low income families, having been abolished since 1999 …. This reform occurred in isolation of any other policy changes, and did not affect students from relatively better off …

The high school exit exam (HSEE) is rapidly becoming a standardized assessment procedure for educational accountability … that a student drops out early based on a Regression Discontinuity design. It shows that students who barely fail the exam … to a large proportion of the dropout probability of barely-failers, particularly for minority and low-income students …

quality. We suggest a method of calculating school quality (how effective a school is in helping its pupils to avoid low …Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper seeks to build …. Firstly, the role of students’ personal characteristics, especially gender, ethnicity and past achievement, in explaining the …