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21-02: The research productivity of Chinese academic returnees from the Global West: An evaluation of Young 1000 Talents recipients’ productivity

Giulio Marini and Lili Yang

21-01: The Dynamics of Relative Poverty in China in a Comparative Perspective

Tak Wing Chan

21-01r: The mental health and wellbeing of teachers in England

John Jerrim, Sam Sims and Rebecca Allen

20-20: Job satisfaction over the life course

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

20-19: From asking to observing. Behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills in large-scale assessments

Francesca Borgonovi, Alessandro Ferrara and Mario Piacentini

20-18: How does the mental health and wellbeing of teachers compare to other professions? Evidence from eleven survey datasets

John Jerrim, Sam Sims, Rebecca Allen and Hannah Taylor

20-17: A Sequence-Analysis Approach to the Study of the Transition to Adulthood in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Maria Sironi, Nicola Barban, Luca Maria Pesando and Frank F. Furstenberg

20-16: Internet Access and Partnership Formation in the United States

Maria Sironi and Ridhi Kashyap

20-15: Tony Atkinson`s new book, Measuring Poverty Around the World. Some further reflections

Andrea Brandolini and John Micklewright

20-14: Do Public Subsidies of Union Membership Increase Union Membership Rates?

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

20-13: Unemployment Disrupts Sleep

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

20-12: Teacher Allocation and School Performance in Italy

Alex Bryson, Lorenzo Corsini and Irene Martelli

20-11: Grammar schools: Socio-economic differences in entrance rates and the association with socio-emotional outcomes

John Jerrim and Sam Sims

20-10: Grammar schools: Socio-economic differences in entrance rates and the association with socio-emotional outcomes - Executive Summary

John Jerrim and Sam Sims

20-09: Measuring socio-economic background using administrative data. What is the best proxy available?

John Jerrim

20-08: Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Well-being

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

20-07: The Persistence of Union Membership within the Coalfields of Britain

Huw Beynon, Helen Blakely, Alex Bryson and Rhys Davies

20-06: Union Membership Peaks in Midlife

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

20-05: Did Covid-19 lead to an increase in hate crimes towards Chinese people in London?

Chelsea Gray and Kirstine Hansen

20-04: Experimental effects of an absent crowd on performance and refereeing decisions during Covid-19

Alex Bryson, Peter Dolton, J Reade, Dominik Schreyer and Carl Singleton

20-03: Driven to succeed? Teenagers' drive, ambition and performance on high-stakes examinations

John Jerrim, Nikki Shure and Gill Wyness

20-02: Unions, Tripartite Competition and Innovation

Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

20-01: How did Spain perform in PISA 2018? New estimates of children’s PISA reading scores

John Jerrim, Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo and Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez

19-11: 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

19-10: Productivity Dynamics: The Role Of Competition In A Service Industry

Thomas Breda, Alex Bryson and John Forth

19-09: 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

19-08: New evidence on teachers’ working hours in England. An empirical analysis of four datasets

Rebecca Allen, Asma Benhenda, John Jerrim and Sam Sims

19-07: Are Women Doing It For Themselves? Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap

Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, John Forth and Alex Bryson

19-06: What does leadership look like in schools and does it matter for school performance?

Lucy Stokes, Alex Bryson and David Wilkinson

19-05: Peer-review of grant proposals. An analysis of Economic and Social Research Council grant applications

John Jerrim

19-04: The Impact of High-Performance Work Systems on Employees: A Sectoral Comparison

Michael White and Alex Bryson

19-03: High performance work systems and public sector workplace performance in Britain

Michael White and Alex Bryson

19-02: Spillovers and substitutability in production

Kerry Papps and Alex Bryson

19-01: 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

18-10: HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?

Michael White and Alex Bryson

18-09: Is Pupil Attainment Higher in Well-managed Schools?

Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes and David Wilkinson

18-08: 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

18-07: What is the cost of grade retention?

Asma Benhenda

18-06: Teacher Screening, On the Job Evaluations and Performancee

Asma Benhenda

18-05: The long-term outcomes of refugees: tracking the progress of the East African Asians

Jake Anders, Simon Burgess and Jonathan Portes

18-04: The impact of management practices on SME performance

John Forth and Alex Bryson

18-03: Are Schools Different? Wellbeing and Commitment Among Staff in Schools and Elsewhere

Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes and David Wilkinson

18-02: Reflections on the US College Loans System: Lessons from Australia and EnglandAbstract: There is wide agreement the US student loan system faces significant problems. Seven million borrowers are in default and many more experience non-repayment. The stress of repayments faced by many students results at least in part from the design of US student loans. Specifically, loans are organised like a mortgage, with fixed monthly repayments over a fixed period of time, creating a high repayment burden on borrowers with low income. This paper draws on the experience of the income-contingent loan (ICL) systems operating in England and Australia, in which monthly repayments are related to the borrower's monthly income. By design, those systems explicitly include insurance against problems of repayment during periods of low income. We discuss the design of this type of loan in detail since such an exercise seems to be largely absent in the US literature. Drawing on data from the US Current Population Survey (CPS) we provide two main empirical contributions. - A stylised illustration of the revenue and distributional implications of different hypothetical ICL arrangements for the USA; and - An illustration of repayment problems faced by low-earning borrowers in the US loan system, including a plausible example of adverse outcomes in the Stafford loan. Importantly, we compare repayment burdens under the existing and alternative systems. Our illustrations show how US mortgage-style loans can create financial difficulties for a significant minority of US borrowers, difficulties which a well-designed ICL has significant potential to address

Nicholas Barr, Bruce Chapman, Lorraine Dearden and Susan Dynarski

18-01: Can HRM Improve Schools' Performance?

Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes and David Wilkinson

17-15: Understanding the Social and Cultural Bases of Brexit

Tak Wing Chan, Morag Henderson, Maria Sironi and Juta Kawalerowicz

17-14: How Does Terrorism Affect Individuals’ Wellbeing?

Alex Bryson and George MacKerron

17-13: 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

17-12: Does Sick Pay Affect Workplace Absence?

Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

17-11: Union Density, Productivity, and Wages

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

17-10: Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?

Alex Bryson