Schooling effects on subsequent university performance: evidence for the UK university population

Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith

No 269470, Economic Research Papers from University of Warwick - Department of Economics

Abstract: From a unique data-set identifying the school attended prior to university for a full cohort of UK university students, we examine the determinants of ¯nal degree classi¯cation. We exploit the detailed school-level information and focus on the in°uence of school characteristics, such as school type, on subsequent performance of students at university. We estimate that, on average, a male (female) graduate who attended an Independent school is 6.5 (5.4) percentage points less likely to obtain a `good' degree than is a student who attended an LEA (that is, state-sector) school, ceteris paribus. We also ¯nd considerable variation around this average ¯gure across di®erent Independent schools. We ¯nd that, for males, the variation in the probability of attaining a `good' degree across schools can largely be explained by the level of school fees.

Keywords: Research Methods/Statistical Methods; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2002-11-11
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Journal Article: Schooling effects on subsequent university performance: evidence for the UK university population (2005)
Working Paper: SCHOOLING EFFECTS ON SUBSEQUENT UNIVERSITY PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FOR THE UK UNIVERSITY POPULATION (2002)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.269470

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