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What makes a test score? The respective contributions of pupils, schools, and peers in achievement in English primary education

Kramarz, Francis; Machin, Stephen; Ouazad, Amine - 2008

This study develops an analytical framework for evaluating the respective contributions of pupils, peers, and school quality in affecting educational achievement. We implement this framework using rich data from England that matches pupils to their primary schools. The dataset records all...

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Education and mobility

Machin, Stephen; Pelkonen, Panu; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2008

We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …

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The crime reducing effect of education

Machin, Stephen; Marie, Olivier; Vujić, Sunčica - 2010

In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources … from Britain. A robust finding is that criminal activity is negatively associated with higher levels of education. However …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the …

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The quest for more and more education: Implications for social mobility

Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2012

In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document … increases in education acquisition by people from relatively rich family backgrounds. At the same time, wage differentials for … the more educated have risen. Putting these two together (more education for people from richer backgrounds and an …

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An Anatomy of EconomicInequality in the UK

Hills, John; Brewer, Mike; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Lister, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

[...]The work of the National Equality Panel will underpin the response by all strategic publicauthorities to Clause One of the Equality Bill which places a new legal duty on key publicbodies to consider, in all the important decisions they make and all important actions theytake, how they can...

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Is Britain Pulling Apart? Area Disparities in Employment, Education and Crime

Gibbons, Stephen; Green, Anne; Gregg, Paul; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2005

This paper explores the changing extent of concentration worklessness and deprivation in Britains communities over the last twenty years and seeks to identify what shapes patterns of relative affluence and deprivation. The paper goes on to explore the evidence that there are lasting consequences...

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Changes in Educational Inequality

Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2003

the UK, but with the stage of the education sequence mattering. In particular the rapid expansion of higher education seen … international comparisons show different patterns of change in the association between education and family income over time in the …

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Education and Mobility

Machin, Stephen; Pelkonen, Panu; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …

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The new economics of education: methods, evidence and policy

Machin, Stephen - In: Journal of Population Economics 21 (2008) 1, pp. 1-19

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Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain

Blanden, Jo; Goodman, Alissa; Gregg, Paul; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper compares and contrasts estimates of the extent of intergenerational income mobility over time in Britain. Estimates based on two British birth cohorts show that mobility appears to have fallen in a cross-cohort comparison of people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s (the 1958 birth...

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