Improving the educational outcomes which schools achieve in the primary and secondary education sectors has become a central public policy goal, to which large sums of public money have been devoted. Being able to estimate the educational production function between pupil educational...

It has been argued by several commentators (e.g. Wilkinson, Evans) that psycho-social stress associated with an individual’s relative position in the social and economic hierarchy is a predominant determinant of their health status, with an individual’s absolute level of income of lesser...

The BLU properties of OLS estimators under known assumptions have encouraged the widespread use of OLS multivariate regression analysis in many empirical studies that are based upon a conceptual model of a single explanatory equation. However, such a model may well be an imperfect empirical...

This paper examines the impact of competition in the markets for teachers and for housing on the long-standing issue of the influence of school resourcing on educational attainment. The existence of such competition is found to imply not only downward bias in many earlier empirical estimates of...

The paper analyses the nature of the achievement possibility frontier between research and teaching quality in higher education under a system of quality evaluation by reference to discrete quality grades. It finds several important reasons why the associated feasible set is likely to be...

Whilst joint ventures offer a potentially attractive form of corporate and industrial organisation, they also experience high rate of break-up within ten years from their initial formation. In this paper, we model this process not as an uncertain random event, but rather as the predictable...

The paper examines several outstanding issues on the interface between the measurement of performance in primary and secondary education and the management of improved performance in this nationally important sector. These issues relate to the clarification of the objectives of the education...

In this paper we will argue that there has developed a significant gap between the high policy priority given to improving educational performance in the UK and the attention that has effectively been given to generating the information base upon which more effective educational resourcing...

Examines the recent changes made to the public sector in the UK in the context of relevant economic models, including the principal‐agent model, public goods theory and the median voter model. Considers a umber of possible justifications for the changes, including the emulation of the private...