Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but … neighbouring schools with similar intakes, operating in the same labour market and facing the same prices for inputs can receive …

Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but … neighbouring schools with similar intakes, operating in the same labour market and facing the same prices for inputs can receive … educational attainment. The results have direct implications for the current "Pupil Premium" policy in England. -- urban schools …

introducing reforms that promote autonomy and choice. Understanding the way in which families choose schools during these periods … estimate whether academy conversion changes schools' popularity. We find that families - particularly non-poor, White British … school system - the academy programme - which gave existing state schools greater autonomy, but provided limited information …

of the schools. We then go on to show that our estimates vary substantially across pupil subgroups that exhibit different …' would be in the absence of sorting and selection. Pupils with a high degree of observable-sorting into Faith schools have an … be explained by differences between the pupils who attend these schools and those who do not. -- Faith school ; primary …

institutional setting also allows us to distinguish between neighbours who attend the same or different schools, and thus examine …We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and …