Institute of Education London

Working Paper Series

The Working Papers constitute work in progress publications. They are published to stimulate discussion and contribute to the advancement of our knowledge.

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Titles Available

2011

09 - England's "plummeting" PISA test scores between 2000 and 2009: Is the performance of our secondary school pupils really in relative decline? - John Jerrim

08 - Nurse or Mechanic? Explaining Sex-Typed Occupational Aspirations amongst Children - Javier Polavieja & Lucinda Platt

07 - Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK trends over a quarter century - Anthony B. Atkinson & Peter G. Backus & John Micklewright & Cathy Pharoah & Sylke V. Schnepf

06 - The effectiveness of English secondary schools for pupils of different ability levels - Lorraine Dearden & John Micklewright & Anna Vignoles

05 - Measuring school value added with administrative data: the problem of missing variables - Lorraine Dearden & Alfonso Miranda & Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

04 - Disadvantaged children's ``low'' educational expectations: Are the US and UK really so different to other industrialized nations? - John Jerrim

03 - Are girls the fairer sex in India? Revisiting intra-household allocation of education expenditure - Mehtabul Azam & Geeta Kingdon

02 - Do Performance Targets Affect Behaviour? Evidence from Discontinuities in Test Scores in England - Marcello Sartarelli

01 - The use (and misuse) of statistics in understanding social mobility: regression to the mean and the cognitive development of high ability children from disadvantaged homes - John Jerrim & Anna Vignoles


2010

19 - An analysis of the educational progress of children with special educational needs - Claire Crawford & Anna Vignoles

18 - Akin to my teacher: Does caste, religious or gender distance between student and teacher matter? Some evidence from India - Shenila Rawal & Geeta Kingdon

17 -  A cross-cohort description of young people's housing experience in Britain over 30 years: An application of Sequence Analysis - Dylan Kneale & Ruth Lupton & Polina Obolenskaya & Richard D Wiggins

16 - Missing ordinal covariates with informative selection - Alfonso Miranda & Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

15 - Policy changes in UK higher education funding, 1963-2009 - Gill Wyness

14 - Administrative Data and Economic Policy Evaluation - Lorraine Dearden

13 - Peer effects and measurement error: the impact of sampling variation in school survey data - John Micklewright & Sylke V. Schnepf & Pedro N. Silva

12 - Languages, ethnicity, and education in London - Michelle von Ahn & Ruth Lupton & Charley Greenwood & Dick Wiggins

11 - Using M-quantile models as an alternative to random effects to model the contextual value-added of schools in London - Nikos Tzavidis & James J Brown

10 - The choice between fixed and random effects models: some considerations for educational research - Paul Clarke & Claire Crawford & Fiona Steele & Anna Vignoles

09 - When you are born matters: the impact of date of birth on educational outcomes in England - Claire Crawford & Lorraine Dearden & Costas Meghir

08 - Widening Participation in Higher Education: Analysis Using Linked Administrative Data - Haroon Chowdry & Claire Crawford & Lorraine Dearden & Alissa Goodman & Anna Vignoles

07 - Ethnic parity in labour market outcomes for benefit claimants in Great Britain - Claire Crawford & Lorraine Dearden & Alice Mesnard & Barbara Sianesi & Jonathan Shaw

06 - Why do children become disengaged from school? - Francesca Foliano & Elena Meschi & Anna Vignoles

05 - Endogenous Treatment Effects for Count Data Models with Sample Selection or Endogenous Participation - Massimiliano Bratti & Alfonso Miranda

04 - Non-response biases in surveys of school children: the case of the English PISA samples - John Micklewright & Sylke V. Schnepf & Chris Skinner

03 - The relative effectiveness of private and government schools in rural India: evidence from ASER data - Rob French & Geeta Kingdon

02 - Does school autonomy improve educational outcomes? Judging the performance of foundation secondary schools in England - Rebecca Allen

01 - A double-hurdle count model for completed fertility data from the developing world - Alfonso Miranda

2009

04 - Can school competition improve standards? The case of faith schools in England - Rebecca Allen & Anna Vignoles

03 - What parents want: school preferences and school choice - Simon Burgess & Ellen Greaves & Anna Vignoles & Deborah Wilson

02 - The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration - John Micklewright & Gyula Nagy

01 - How Reliable are Income Data Collected with a Single Question? - John Micklewright & Sylke V. Schnepf