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The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa: Results from the CREO Study in Guinea-Bissau

Boone, Peter; Fazzio, Ila; Jandhyala, Kameshwari; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

We conducted a survey covering 20% of villages with 200-1000 population in rural Guinea-Bissau. We interviewed household heads, care-givers of children, and their teachers and schools. We analysed results from 9,947 children, aged 7-17, tested for literacy and numeracy competency. Only 27% of...

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In brief: Does management matter in schools?

Lemos, Renata - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Better school management is associated with better pupil achievement, according to CEP analysis of the quality of management practices in schools in a range of developed and developing countries. Renata Lemos notes that the quality of school management is related to leadership traits of the head...

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Everybody needs good neighbours?

Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

There are large disparities between the achievements, behaviour and aspirations of children in different neighbourhoods - but does this mean that the place where you grow up determines your later life outcomes? Steve Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt outline the findings of a series of CEP...

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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There are many potential channels for this effect, although, as usual, identifying a causal relationship is difficult. We appeal to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map...

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Everybody needs good neighbours?

Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

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Educational efficiency: value for money in public spending on schools

Dolton, Peter; Gutierrez, Oscar Marcenaro; Still, Adam - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Which national education systems deliver the best value for money? Peter Dolton and colleagues rank 30 of the world …'s richest countries based on their expenditure on teacher costs (which account for 80% of education budgets) and the pupil …

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When the Cat is Near, the Mice Won't Play: The Effect of External Examiners in Italian Schools

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner has both a direct and an indirect negative effect on the performance of monitored classes in standardized educational tests. The direct effect is the difference in the test performance between classes of the same...

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Education and Health Knowledge: Evidence from UK Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …

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Pay for Performance Where Output is Hard to Measure: the Case of Performance Pay for School Teachers

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting performance reviews. Experienced teachers were...

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Performance Pay for Teachers: Linking Individual and Organisational Level Targets

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

and head teachers with Department for Education and Skills school performance data to consider the operation and impact of …

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