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2020
01 - How did Spain perform in PISA 2018? New estimates of children’s PISA reading scores. – John Jerrim , Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo and Oscar D. Marcenaro Gutierrez
2019
11 - Is Canada really an education superpower? The impact of exclusions and non-response on results from PISA 2015 – Jake Anders, Silvan Has, John Jerrim, Nikki Shure and Laura Zieger
10 - Productivity Dynamics: The Role Of Competition In A Service Industry – Thomas Breda, Alex Bryson and John Forth
09 – The gender gap in wages over the life course: evidence from a British cohort born in 1958 – Heather Joshi, Alex Bryson, David Wilkinson and Kelly Ward
08 – New evidence on teachers’ working hours in England. An empirical analysis of four datasets – Rebecca Allen, Asma Benhenda, John Jerrim and Sam Sims
07 – Are Women Doing It For Themselves? Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap – Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, John Forth and Alex Bryson
06 – What does leadership look like in schools and does it matter for school performance? – Lucy Stokes, Alex Bryson and David Wilkinson
05 – Peer-review of grant proposals. An analysis of Economic and Social Research Council grant applications – John Jerrim
04 - The Impact of High-Performance Work Systems on Employees: A Sectoral Comparison – Michael White and Alex Bryson
03 – High performance work systems and public sector workplace performance in Britain – Michael White and Alex Bryson
02 – Spillovers and substitutability in production – Kerry L Papps and Alex Bryson
01 – Books or babies? Incapacitation and human capital effects of extended compulsory schooling on the teenage fertility of ethnic minority women – Anna Adamecz-Völgyi and Ágota Scharle
2018
10 - HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains? – Michael White and Alex Bryson
09 - Is Pupil Attainment Higher in Well-managed Schools? – Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes and David Wilkinson
08 - The ''Good Workplace'': The Role of Joint Consultative Committees, Unions and HR policies in Employee Ratings of Workplaces in Britain – Michael Barry, Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Bruce Kaufman, Guenther Lomas and Adrian Wilkinson
07 - What is the cost of grade retention? – Asma Benhenda
06 - Teacher Screening, On the Job Evaluations and Performance - Asma Benhenda
05 - The long-term outcomes of refugees: tracking the progress of the East African Asians - Jake Anders, Simon Burgess and Jonathan Portes
04 - The impact of management practices on SME performance - John Forth and Alex Bryson
03 - Are Schools Different? Wellbeing and Commitment Among Staff in Schools and Elsewhere - Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes and David Wilkinson
02 - Reflections on the US College Loans System: Lessons from Australia and England - Nicholas Barr, Bruce Chapman, Lorraine Dearden and Susan Dynarski
01 - Can HRM Improve Schools' Performance? - Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes and David Wilkinson
2017
15 - Understanding the Social and Cultural Bases of Brexit - Tak Wing Chan, Morag Henderson, Maria Sironi and Juta Kawalerowicz
14 - How Does Terrorism Affect Individuals' Wellbeing? - Alex Bryson and George MacKerron
13 - The Twin Track Model of Employee Voice: An Anglo-American Perspective on Union Decline and the Rise of Alternative Forms of Voice - Alex Bryson, Richard Freeman, Rafael Gomez and Paul Willman
12 - Does Sick Pay Affect Workplace Absence? - Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen
11 - Union Density, Productivity, and Wages - Erling Barth, Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen
10 - Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace? - Alex Bryson
09 - Assessing the role of grammar schools in promoting social mobility - Simon Burgess, Claire Crawford and Lindsey Macmillan
08 - The Effects of Firm Size on Job Quality: A Comparative Study for Britain and France - Alex Bryson, Christine Erhel and Zinaïda Salibekyan
07 - Time To Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football - Alex Bryson, Babatunde Buraimo and Rob Simmons
06 - The private schooling phenomenon in India: A review - Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
05 - Children in jobless households across Europe: Evidence on the association with medium- and long-term outcomes - Paul Gregg, John Jerrim, Lindsey Macmillan and Nikki Shure
04 - What Happens When Econometrics and Psychometrics Collide? An Example Using PISA Data - John Jerrim, Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo, Oscar D. Marcenaro-Gutierrez and Nikki Shure
03 - Do Migrants Lower Workplace Wages? - Michael White and Alex Bryson
02 - Do Terrorist Attacks Affect Ethnic Discrimination in the Labour Market? Evidence from Two Randomised Field Experiments - Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, Elisabeth Ugreninov, Tak Wing Chan, Arnfinn Midtbøen and Jon Rogstad
01 - Social Mobility and the Wellbeing of Individuals - Tak Wing Chan
2016
16 - Does Job Support Make Workers Happy? - Petri Böckerman, Alex Bryson, Antti Kauhanen and Mari Kangasniemi
15 - Gender Differences in the Union Wage Premium? A Comparative Case Study - Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen and Kristine Nergaard
14 - High-Stakes Accountability and Teacher Turnover: how do different school inspection judgements affect teachers' decisions to leave their school? - Sam Sims
13 - School Hours and Maternal Labor Supply: A Natural Experiment from Germany - Nikki Shure
12 - What's in a Name? The Effect of Brand on the Level of English Universities' Fees - Andrew Jenkins and Alison Wolf
11 - What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-recession? - Alex Bryson and John Forth
10 - Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation - John Forth, Alex Bryson and Anitha George
09 - The Causal Impact of Transfers of Social Housing Stock on Educational Attainment in England - Bilal Nasim
08 - Unions and the economic basis of attitudes - Alex Bryson and Michael White
07 - The Short Run Impact of the Building Schools for the Future Programme on Attainment at Key Stage 4 - Dave Thomson
06 - Family ownership, Workplace Closure and the Recession - Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen and Trygve Gulbrandsen
05 - Health and Safety Risks in Britain's Workplaces: Where are They and Who Controls Them? - Alex Bryson
04 - Benchmarking London in the PISA rankings - John Jerrim and Gill Wyness
03 - The role of non-cognitive and cognitive skills in accounting for the intergenerational transmission of 'top job' status - Claire Tyler
02 - PISA 2012: How do results for the paper and computer tests compare? - John Jerrim
01 - When does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises? - Alex Bryson and Michael White
2015
12 - Taxonomy of A-Level Subjects According to the Expressed Preferences of Russell Group Universities: Who Does What? - Catherine Dilnot
11 - Determinants and Learning Effects of Adult Education-Training: a Cross-National Comparison Using PIAAC Data (PDF) - Andrea Cegolon
10 - Testing Means-Tested Aid - Gill Wyness
09 - Deserving poor? Are higher education bursaries going to the right students? - Gill Wyness
08 - When and why do initially high attaining poor children fall behind? - Claire Crawford, Lindsey Macmillan and Anna Vignoles
07 - The association between social housing type and children's developmental outcomes - Bilal Nasim
06 - Changes in the relationship between social housing tenure and child outcomes over time: Comparing the Millennium and British Cohort Studies - Bilal Nasim
05 - The causal effect of East Asian 'mastery' teaching methods on English children's mathematics skills? - John Jerrim
03 - Nonlinear Estimation of Lifetime Intergenerational Economic Mobility and the Role of Education - Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan and Claudia Vittori
02 - Emigrants from Great Britain: what do we know about their lives? - John Jerrim
01 - Multidimensional approach to workless-ness: a matter of opportunities, social factors and individual's idiosyncrasies - Gabriella Cagliesi, Denise Hawkes and Max Tookey
2014
19 - Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions: Effects of an Information Campaign and Media Exposure - Martin McGuigan, Sandra McNally and Gill Wyness
18 - Income inequality, intergenerational mobility and the Great Gatsby Curve: is education the key? - John Jerrim and Lindsey Macmillan
17 - Two-Sample Two-Stage Least Squares (TSTSLS) estimates of earnings mobility: how consistent are they? - John Jerrim, Alvaro Choi and Rosa Simancas Rodriguez
16 - Why do East Asian children perform so well in PISA? An investigation of Western-born children of East Asian descent - John Jerrim
15 - Disabled children's cognitive development in the early years - Samantha Parsons and Lucinda Platt
14 - Does it matter why immigrants came here? Original motives, the labour market, and national identity in the UK - Stuart Campbell
13 - Convergence or divergence? A longitudinal analysis of behaviour problems among disabled and non-disabled children aged 3 to 7 in England - Rebecca Fauth, Samantha Parsons and Lucinda Platt
12 - Moving Towards Estimating Lifetime Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the UK - Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan and Claudia Vittori
11 - Bullying experiences among disabled children and young people in England: Evidence from two longitudinal studies - Stella Chatzitheochari, Samantha Parsons and Lucinda Platt
10 - Selected at seven: The relationship between teachers' judgments and assessments of pupils, and pupils' stream placements - Tammy Campbell
09 - Selective Schooling Systems Increase Inequality - Simon Burgess, Matt Dickson and Lindsey Macmillan
08 - A Pragmatic Approach to Measuring Neighbourhood Poverty Change - Ludovica Gambaro, Heather Joshi, Ruth Lupton and Mary Clare Lennon
07 - Does an aptitude test affect socioeconomic and gender gaps in attendance at an elite university? - Jake Anders
06 - Was migrating beneficial? Comparing social mobility of Turks in Western Europe to Turks in Turkey and Western European natives - Carolina V. Zuccotti, Harry Ganzeboom and Ayse Guveli
05 - Do parents matter? Occupational outcomes among ethnic minorities and British natives in England and Wales (2009-2010) - Carolina V. Zuccotti
04 - Food for Thought? Breastfeeding and Child Development - Emla Fitzsimons and Marcos Vera-Hernández
03 - Do "Child-Friendly" Practices affect Learning? Evidence from Rural India - Sushmita Nalini Das
02 - The link between family background and later lifetime incomes: how does the UK compare to other countries? - John Jerrim
01 - Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance? - Jo Blanden and Lindsey Macmillan
2013
15 - Who gets the Top Jobs? The role of family background and networks in recent graduates' access to high status professions - Lindsey Macmillan, Claire Tyler and Anna Vignoles
14 - Unofficial Development Assistance: a model of development charities' donation income - Wiji Arulampalam, Peter G. Backus and John Micklewright
13 - Teenagers' expectations of applying to university: how do they change? Jake Anders and John Micklewright
12 - Understanding income mobility: the role of education for intergenerational income persistence in the US, UK and Sweden - Paul Gregg, Jan O. Jonsson, Lindsey Macmillan and Carina Mood
11 - Matched panel data estimates of the impact of Teach First on school and department performance - Rebecca Allen and Jay Allnutt
10 - The socio-economic gradient in children's reading skills and the role of genetics - John Jerrim, Anna Vignoles, Raghu Lingam and Angela Friend
09 - Over-education among A8 migrants in the UK - Stuart Campbell
08 - Teacher Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Pupil fixed effects estimates for twelve countries - Christopher F. Hein and Rebecca Allen
07 - Identifying the drivers of month of birth differences in educational attainment - Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden and Ellen Greaves
06 - The drivers of month of birth differences in children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills: a regression discontinuity analysis - Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden and Ellen Greaves
05 - The impact of age within academic year on adult outcomes - Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden and Ellen Greaves
04 - Money for nothing: estimating the impact of financial aid on participation in Higher Education - Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons and Gill Wyness
03 - The mathematics skills of school children: How does England compare to the high performing East Asian jurisdictions? - John Jerrim and Alvaro Choi
02 - Learning and Wellbeing Trajectories Among Older Adults in England - Andrew Jenkins and Tarek Mostafa
01 - The role of non-cognitive and cognitive skills, behavioural and educational outcomes in accounting for the intergenerational transmission of worklessness - Lindsey Macmillan
2012
13 - Using the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England for research into Higher Education access - Jake Anders
12 - The impact of sampling variation on peer measures: a comment on a proposal to adjust estimates for measurement error - Pedro N.Silva, John Micklewright and Sylke V. Schnepf
11 - University access for socio-economically disadvantaged children: A comparison across English speaking countries - John Jerrim and Anna Vignoles
10 - Nurse or Mechanic? The role of parental socialization and children's personality in the formation of sex-typed occupational aspirations - Javier Polavieja and Lucinda Platt (revised version of DoQSS wp 11-08)
09 - The teacher labour market, teacher turnover and disadvantaged schools: new evidence for England - Rebecca Allen, Simon Burgess and Jennifer Mayo
08 - Charitable bequests and wealth at death - Tony Atkinson, Peter Backus and John Micklewright
07 - The impact of the Great Recession on the incomes of households - John Micklewright
06 - Socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive skills: Are cross-country comparisons robust to who reports family background? - John Jerrim, John Micklewright
05 - Reducing bias due to missing values of the response variable by joint modeling with an auxiliary variable - Alfonso Miranda, Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and John W. McDonald
04 - The socio-economic gradient in teenagers' literacy skills: how does England compare to other countries? - John Jerrim
03 - The relative importance of adolescent skills and behaviours for adult earnings: A cross-national study - Kathryn Duckworth, Greg J. Duncan, Katja Kokko, Anna-Liisa Lyyra, Molly Metzger and Sharon Simonton
02 - How should we treat under-performing schools? A regression discontinuity analysis of school inspections in England - Rebecca Allen and Simon Burgess
01 - What's the link between household income and going to university? - Jake Anders
2011
10 - Evaluating the provision of school performance information for school choice - Rebecca Allen and Simon Burgess
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 and Lucinda Platt
07 - Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK trends over a quarter century - Anthony B. Atkinson, Peter G. Backus, John Micklewright, Cathy Pharoah and Sylke V. Schnepf
06 - The effectiveness of English secondary schools for pupils of different ability levels - Lorraine Dearden, John Micklewright and Anna Vignoles
05 - Measuring school value added with administrative data: the problem of missing variables - Lorraine Dearden, Alfonso Miranda and 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 and 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 and Anna Vignoles
2010
19 - An analysis of the educational progress of children with special educational needs - Claire Crawford and Anna Vignoles
18 - Akin to my teacher: Does caste, religious or gender distance between student and teacher matter? Some evidence from India - Shenila Rawal and Geeta Kingdon
17 - A cross-cohort description of young people's housing experience in Britain over 30 years: An application of Sequence Analysis - Dylan Knealem, Ruth Lupton, Polina Obolenskaya & Richard D Wiggins
16 - Missing ordinal covariates with informative selection - Alfonso Miranda and 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 and James J Brown
10 - The choice between fixed and random effects models: some considerations for educational research - Paul Clarke, Claire Crawford, Fiona Steele and Anna Vignoles
09 - When you are born matters: the impact of date of birth on educational outcomes in England - Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden and Costas Meghir
08 - Widening Participation in Higher Education: Analysis Using Linked Administrative Data - Haroon Chowdry, Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, Alissa Goodman and Anna Vignoles
07 - Ethnic parity in labour market outcomes for benefit claimants in Great Britain - Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, Alice Mesnard, Barbara Sianesi and Jonathan Shaw
06 - Why do children become disengaged from school? - Francesca Foliano, Elena Meschi and Anna Vignoles
05 - Endogenous Treatment Effects for Count Data Models with Sample Selection or Endogenous Participation - Massimiliano Bratti and Alfonso Miranda
04 - Non-response biases in surveys of school children: the case of the English PISA samples - John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf and Chris Skinner
03 - The relative effectiveness of private and government schools in rural India: evidence from ASER data - Rob French and 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 and Anna Vignoles
03 - What parents want: school preferences and school choice - Simon Burgess, Ellen Greaves, Anna Vignoles and Deborah Wilson
02 - The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration - John Micklewright and Gyula Nagy
01 - How Reliable are Income Data Collected with a Single Question? - John Micklewright and Sylke V. Schnepf