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Heterogeneous effects of mass academisation in England
Neri, Lorenzo; Pasini, Elisabetta - 2018
The 2010 primary school reform in the UK aimed at giving schools more autonomy and freedom from local council's control …, by giving them the option to become academies. Once converted, schools need to choose between remaining a standalone …. Survey data on academies suggest that schools belonging to chains are more likely to change leadership and entrust the …
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Inequality in pupils' educational attainment: How much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter?
Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta - 2010
We explore the relative influence of family and neighbourhood on educational attainment and how this varies by sibling type. Using English register data we find sibling correlations in exam scores of 0.563 at the end of primary school and of 0.621 at the end of compulsory schooling. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288927
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Cross-national surveys of learning achievement : how robust are the findings?
Brown, Giorgina; Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; … - 2005
International surveys of learning achievement and functional literacy are increasingly common. We consider two aspects of the robustness of their results. First, we compare results from four surveys: TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS and IALS. This contrasts with the standard approach which is to analyse a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003011506
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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2004
Using cultural transmission, we develop a model that gives some microfoundation to the impact of residential neighborhood on children's educational attainment and then test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that, for high-educated parents, the better the quality of the...
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Intergenerational Education Transmission : Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement?
Patacchini, Eleonora - 2007
We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents' involvement in education on children's educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that the better the quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777466
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Graded children: Evidence of longrun consequences of school grades from a nationwide reform
Sjögren, Anna - 2010
Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273930
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Graded Children: Evidence of Longrun Consequences of School Grades from a Nationwide Reform
Sjögren, Anna - 2010
Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320314
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Graded children : evidence of longrun consequences of school grades from a nationwide reform
Sjögren, Anna - 2010
Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971382
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Graded children : evidence of longrun consequences of school grades from a nationwide reform
Sjögren, Anna - 2010
Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973482
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The Effect of Parents' Employment on Children's Educational Attainment
Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2000
This paper presents the conditions under which a causal interpretation can be given to the association between childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in own consumption and children?s wellbeing, estimation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262421