type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article examines the importance of schools relative to individual characteristics in explaining Tertiary Entrance Rank scores, using Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth data. The school characteristics explain around 20 per cent of the variance in...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article examines the occupational aspirations of 15-year olds. We first determine the drivers of occupational aspirations before comparing aspirations with actual employment outcomes a decade later. Whilst actual jobs held at age 25 years do not quite meet...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>The issue addressed by this article is whether there is an interaction between school ‘quality’ and students' socioeconomic status. That is, is a school that is of ‘high quality’ for high socioeconomic status students as effective for students from a...</p>