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Heterogeneous effects of missing out on a place at a preferred secondary school in England

Gorman, Emma; Walker, Ian - 2020

Schools vary in quality, and high-performing schools tend to be oversubscribed: there are more applicants than places available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to administrative education records to study the consequences of failing to gain admission to one's...

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Heterogeneous effects of missing out on a place at a preferred secondary school in England

Gorman, Emma; Walker, Ian - In: Economics of education review 81 (2021), pp. 1-14

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The union non-union wage differential : an application of semi-parametric methods

Lanot, Gauthier; Walker, Ian - In: Journal of econometrics 84 (1998) 2, pp. 327-349

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University Selectivity and the Graduate Wage Premium : Evidence from the UK

Walker, Ian - 2017

We study the relative labour market wage outcomes of university graduates in the UK using the Labour Force Survey (LFS), matched to mean standardised admission scores at the institution *subject* cohort level using data on high school achievement scores of students admitted to these courses....

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There's no such thing as a free lunch : evidence of altruism and agency from household expenditure responses to child nutrition programs

Bingley, Paul; Walker, Ian - 2011

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There’s no such thing as a free lunch : altruistic parents and the response of household food expenditures to nutrition program reforms

Bingley, Paul; Walker, Ian - 2007

this crowding out could be either altruism or agency. This paper is concerned with three nutrition programmes for children … rather than agency problems because milk expenditure crowd-out is similar across milk programs that have different delivery …

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The union - non-union wage differential : an application of semi-parametric methods

Lanot, Gauthier; Walker, Ian - 1993

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University selectivity and the graduate wage premium : evidence from the UK

Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2017

We study the relative labour market wage outcomes of university graduates in the UK using the Labour Force Survey (LFS), matched to mean standardised admission scores at the institution*subject*cohort level using data on high school achievement scores of students admitted to these courses....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607622

The graduate wage and earnings premia and the role of non-cognitive skills

Buchmueller, Gerda; Walker, Ian - 2020

Estimates of the graduate earnings premium typically do not allow for the effect of non-cognitive skills. Since such … motivated by the greater reliance on administrative datasets in recent research that has focused on annual earnings rather than … hourly wages and our results show that the graduate earnings differential is significantly greater than the wage differential …

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Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?

Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2003

It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the productivity of workers (the human capital explanation) or whether education simply reflects the ability of the worker...

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