Professor Anna Vignoles
- Qualifications and position:
- Professor of Economics of Education
- Director, Centre for Economics of Education (CEE) - Institute of Education branch
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Policy and Society
- Department:
- Department of Quantitative Social Science
- Summary:
- Anna Vignoles is a quantitative researcher who specialises in the economics of education. A key research interest of hers is the economic value of education, and specifically the labour market value of basic skills, training, qualifications and different types of curricula.
She has also researched issues around equity in education, such as widening participation in higher education. Lastly, she undertakes research into school efficiency, with a particular emphasis on the study of financial and human resourcing in education.
- Teaching:
- In addition to PhD supervision in the Economics of Education, Anna is Module Leader for Longitudinal Analysis, which forms part of a joint Masters degree offered by the Institute of Education and the UK H M Treasury (MSc in Policy Analysis and Evaluation). She is Dissertation Tutor for this degree.
She is also Module Leader for the Economic Value of Education module which forms part of the MA/MSc in Economics of Education at the Institute of Education.
She is joint Module Leader for a module in Economic Evaluation which forms part of both the MSc Policy Analysis and Evaluation and the MA/MSc Economics of Education.
- Research Projects:
- Deputy Director of the Centre for Youth Transitions, which is a Department for Children Schools and Families sponsored research centre focused on the analysis of adolescent issues.
Deputy Director of the Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE) which undertakes a wide range of largely quantitative research projects, focusing on the economic role of education in our society.
Co-investigator for a new ESRC/NCRM Methods Node, Administrative Data - Methods, Inference and Network (ADMIN), which is focused on the use of linked survey and administrative data in policy oriented empirical research.
- Postgraduate Research:
- Key research interests include the economic value of education, and specifically the labour market value of basic skills, training, qualifications and different types of curricula.
Other research issues of interest include equity issues in education, such as widening participation in higher education and school efficiency, with a particular emphasis on the study of financial and human resourcing in education.
- Professional Activities:
- • Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics.
• Advisor for both the HM Treasury and the Sector Skills Development Agency.
• Advisor to the Scientific Committee for the British Cohort Study (1970) and the National Child Development Study (1958).
• Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A.
- Conferences/presentations:
- • 'Tackling the Recession Fairly: Labour Market Policy for the Next Decade', David Metcalfe Conference hosted by Centre for Economic Performance Conference, London School of Economics, December 2009'.
• 'What Works, what counts and what matters: costs and cost effectiveness of family focussed interventions for children' Presentation for the Department for Children Schools and Families with the Economics and Social Research Council, November 11 2009'.
• 'Can school competition improve standards? The case of faith schools in England', Royal Economic Society Conference, 2009'.
• 'Parents' Basic Skills and Childrens' Cognitive Outcomes', Royal Economic Society Conference, 2009'.
• 'The value of higher education', presented at the British Education Research Association Annual Conference 2007'.
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- Research Students:
- Robert French, "Using linked administrative and survey data to estimate the effect of poverty on educational outcomes".
Charley Greenwood, "Returns Profiles: modelling wage differentials for UK qualifications by time held".
Contact details
- Email: A.Vignoles@ioe.ac.uk
Address:- Department of Quantitative Social Science
Institute of Education University of London
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL
Office Location:- Room 303
55-59 Gordon Square, WC1H 0NU
Publications
- Vignoles, A. (with M.Collins and J. Walker) (2010) 'Higher Education Academic Salaries in the UK', Oxford Economic Papers. Vol. 62, 1, pp. 12-35.
- Vignoles, A. (with Lorraine Dearden and Stephen Machin) (2009) 'Economics of Education Research: A Review and Future Prospects', Oxford Review of Education. Vol. 35, 5, pp.617 - 632.
- Vignoles, A. (with G.Hobbs) (2009) 'Is children's free school meal 'eligibility' a good proxy for family income?', British Educational Research Journal. pp. 1469-3518.
- Steele F.; Vignoles, A.; Jenkins, A. (2007) 'The Impact of School Resources on Student Attainment: A Multilevel Simultaneous Equation Modelling Approach', The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, volume 170, part 3, pp. 801-824.
- Vignoles, Anna; Allen, Rebecca (2007) 'What Should an Index of School Segregation Measure?', Oxford Review of Education Vol. 33, No. 4.
- Vignoles, Anna; Machin , Stephen (ed.) (2005) What's the Good of Education?: The Economics of Education in the UK. Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford.
- Vignoles, Anna; Galindo-Rueda, F. (2005) 'The Declining Relative Importance of Ability in Predicting Educational Attainment', Journal of Human Resources Vol. 40, No. 2, pp.335-353 .
- Vignoles, A. (with P. Dolton) (2002) 'The Return to Post-Compulsory School Mathematics Study', Economica. Vol. 69, 273, pp. 113-142.
- Vignoles, A. (with L. Dearden, L, S. McIntosh, and M. Myck) (2002) 'The Returns to Academic, Vocational and Basic Skills in Britain', Bulletin of Economic Research Vol 54, 3, pp. 249-274.
- Vignoles, A. (with S. McIntosh) (2001) 'Measuring and assessing the impact of basic skills on labour market outcomes', Oxford Economic Papers. Vol.53, 3, pp.453-481.
