Admission to Selective Schools, Alphabetically

The Intelligence of Applicants for Admission to Jewish Day Schools

Alphabetically ) : BAILEY - KELLOGG , CHRIS

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Selective Schools and Academic Achievement

Selective Schools and Academic Achievement In this paper I consider the impact of attending a selective high school in the UK. Students are assigned to these schools on the basis of a test taken in primary school and, using data on these assignment test scores for a particular district, I exploit this rule to estimate the causal effects of selective schools on test scores, high school course ta...

Paying for Primary Schools: Admission Constraints, School Popularity or Congestion?

School quality is capitalised in house prices if access to schools is rationed by residential location. We generate empirical predictions from three different theoretical approaches linking house prices to school performance, distance to school and capacity. These are respectively based upon admission constraints, school popularity and congestion effects. We find that test score based school pe...

Doctor Who? Who Gets Admission Offers in UK Medical Schools

In the context of the UK Government’s ambitious programme of medical school expansion, it is important to have an understanding of how the medical school admissions process works, and with what effects. The issue is also relevant for the Schwartz Review (2004) into higher education admissions. Using individual-level data for two entire cohorts of medical student applicants in UK universities an...