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14-04: Food for Thought? Breastfeeding and Child Development

Emla Fitzsimons and Marcos Vera-Hernández

14-03: Do "Child-Friendly" Practices affect Learning? Evidence from Rural India

Sushmita Nalini Das

14-02: The link between family background and later lifetime income: how does the UK compare to other countries?

John Jerrim

14-01: Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance?

Joanne Blanden and Lindsey Macmillan

13-15: 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

13-14: Unofficial Development Assistance: a model of development charities' donation income

Wiji Arulampalam, Peter Backus and John Micklewright

13-13: Teenagers' expectations of applying to university: how do they change?

Jake Anders and John Micklewright

13-12: Understanding income mobility: the role of education for intergenerational income persistence in the US, UK and Sweden

Paul Gregg, Jan Jonsson, Lindsey Macmillan and Carina Mood

13-11: Matched panel data estimates of the impact of Teach First on school and departmental performance

Rebecca Allen and Jay Allnutt

13-10: The socio-economic gradient in children's reading skills and the role of genetics

John Jerrim, Anna Vignoles, Raghu Lingam and Angela Friend

13-09: Over-education among A8 migrants in the UK

Stuart Campbell

13-08: Teacher Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Pupil-fixed effects estimates for twelve countries

Christopher Hein and Rebecca Allen

13-07: Identifying the drivers of month of birth differences in educational attainment

Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden and Ellen Greaves

13-06: 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

13-05: The impact of age within academic year on adult outcomes

Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden and Ellen Greaves

13-04: Money for nothing: estimating the impact of student aid on participation in Higher Education

Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons and Gill Wyness

13-03: The mathematics skills of school children: How does England compare to the high performing East Asian jurisdictions?

John Jerrim and Alvaro Choi

13-02: Learning and Wellbeing Trajectories Among Older Adults in England

Andrew Jenkins and Tarek Mostafa

13-01: The role of non-cognitive and cognitive skills, behavioural and educational outcomes in accounting for the intergenerational transmission of worklessness

Lindsey Macmillan

12-13: Using the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England for research into Higher Education access

Jake Anders

12-12: The impact of sampling variation on peer measures: a comment on a proposal to adjust estimates for measurement error

Perdo N. Silva, John Micklewright and Sylke Schnepf

12-11: University access for disadvantaged children: A comparison across English speaking countries

John Jerrim, Anna Vignoles and Ross Finnie

12-10: 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

12-09: The teacher labour market, teacher turnover and disadvantaged schools: new evidence for England

Rebecca Allen, Simon Burgess and Jennifer Mayo

12-08: Charitable bequests and wealth at death

Anthony Atkinson, Peter Backus and John Micklewright

12-07: The impact of the Great Recession on the incomes of households

John Micklewright

12-06: Socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive skills: Are cross-country comparisons robust to who reports family background?

John Jerrim and John Micklewright

12-05: 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

12-04: The socio-economic gradient in teenagers' literacy skills: how does England compare to other countries?

John Jerrim

12-03: The relative importance of adolescent skills and behaviors for adult earnings: A cross-national study

Kathryn Duckworth, Greg Duncan, Katja Kokko, Anna-Liisa Lyyra, Mollyr Molly Metzger and Sharon Simonton

12-02: How should we treat under-performing schools? A regression discontinuity analysis of school inspections in England

Rebecca Allen and Simon Burgess

12-01: What's the link between household income and going to university?

Jake Anders

11-10: Evaluating the provision of school performance information for school choice

Rebecca Allen and Simon Burgess

11-09: England's "plummeting" PISA test scores between 2000 and 2009: Is the performance of our secondary school pupils really in relative decline

John Jerrim

11-08: Nurse or Mechanic? Explaining Sex-Typed Occupational Aspirations amongst Children

Javier Polavieja and Lucinda Platt

11-07: Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK trends over a quarter century

Anthony Atkinson, Peter G. Backus, John Micklewright, Cathy Cathy Pharoah and Sylke Schnepf

11-06: The effectiveness of English secondary schools for pupils of different ability levels

Lorraine Dearden, John Micklewright and Anna Vignoles

11-05: Measuring school value added with administrative data: the problem of missing variables

Lorraine Dearden, Alfonso Miranda and Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

11-04: Disadvantaged children’s ``low'' educational expectations: Are the US and UK really so different to other industrialized nations?

John Jerrim

11-03: Are girls the fairer sex in India? Revisiting intra-household allocation of education expenditure

Mehtabul Azam and Geeta Kingdon

11-02: Do Performance Targets Affect Behaviour? Evidence from Discontinuities in Test Scores in England

Marcello Sartarelli

11-01: 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

10-21: Choosing secondary school by moving house: school quality and the formation of neighbourhoods

Rebecca Allen, Simon Burgess and Tomas Key

10-20: How should we treat under-performing schools? A regression discontinuity analysis of school inspections in England

Rebecca Allen, Simon Burgess and Leigh McKenna

10-19: An analysis of the educational progress of children with special educational needs

Claire Crawford and Anna Vignoles

10-18: Akin to my teacher: Does caste, religious or gender distance between student and teacher matter? Some evidence from India

Shenila Rawal and Geeta Kingdon

10-17: 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 and Richard Wiggins

10-16: Missing ordinal covariates with informative selection

Alfonso Miranda and Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

10-15: Policy changes in UK higher education funding, 1963-2009

Gill Wyness

10-14: Administrative Data and Economic Policy Evaluation

Lorraine Dearden

10-13: Peer effects and measurement error: the impact of sampling variation in school survey data

John Micklewright, Sylke Schnepf and Pedro N. Silva

10-12: Languages, ethnicity, and education in London

Michelle Michelle von Ahn, Ruth Lupton, Charley Greenwood and Richard Wiggins

10-11: 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

10-10: The choice between fixed and random effects models: some considerations for educational research

Paul Clarke, Claire Crawford, Fiona Steele and Anna Vignoles

10-09: When you are born matters: the impact of date of birth on educational outcomes in England

Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden and Costas Meghir

10-08: Widening Participation in Higher Education: Analysis Using Linked Administrative Data

Haroon Chowdry, Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, Alissa Goodman and Anna Vignoles

10-07: Ethnic parity in labour market outcomes for benefit claimants in Great Britain

Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, Alice Mesnard, Barbara Sianesi and Jonathan Shaw

10-06: Why do children become disengaged from school?

Francesca Foliano, Elena Meschi and Anna Vignoles

10-05: Endogenous Treatment Effects for Count Data Models with Sample Selection or Endogenous Participation

Massimiliano Bratti and Alfonso Miranda

10-04: Non-response biases in surveys of school children: the case of the English PISA samples

John Micklewright, Sylke Schnepf and Chris Chris Skinner

10-03: The relative effectiveness of private and government schools in Rural India: Evidence from ASER data

Robert French and Geeta Kingdon

10-02: Does school autonomy improve educational outcomes? Judging the performance of foundation secondary schools in England

Rebecca Allen

10-01: A double-hurdle count model for completed fertility data from the developing world

Alfonso Miranda

09-04: Can school competition improve standards? The case of faith schools in England

Rebecca Allen and Anna Vignoles

09-03: How Reliable are Income Data Collected with a Single Question?

John Micklewright and Sylke Schnepf

09-02: The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration: evidence from a field experiment

John Micklewright and Gyula Nagy

09-01: What parents want: school preferences and school choice

Simon Burgess, Ellen Greaves, Anna Vignoles and Deborah Wilson