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Does school spending matter?
Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
income devoted to education would make much of a difference, they ask what is the ideal balance of spending between early … years, primary and secondary education. They conclude that there is no compelling case to support a transfer of resources … from later stages of education to early years: early years investment may offer higher returns, but the returns erode …
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In brief: Urban schools: does money make a difference?
Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
This research paper is motivated by a long tail at the bottom of the educational distribution, educational inequality between those from high and low socio-economic groups and the question as to what role an increase in school resources has in changing all this. The issue about whether investing...
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The Effects of Resources Across School Phases: A Summary of Recent Evidence
Gibbons, Stephen; McNally, Sandra - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
This report provides an overview and discussion of the past decade of academic evidence on the causal effects of resources in schooling on students' outcomes. Early evidence lacked good strategies for estimating the effects of schools resources, leading many people to conclude that spending more...
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