Individual copy price: £5 The Centre for the Economics of Education is an independent research centre funded by the Department for Education and Skills. The views expressed in this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the DfES. All errors and omissions remain the authors. Executive Summary Area-targeted regeneration policy implicitly assumes that neighbourho...

With the emergence of new learning approaches, it has become more troublesome learners can pragmatically learn in long run, especially when a foreign language is involved. Flaws and deficiency arises most cases EFL classroom where development skills like reading writing are inconclusive. This study aimed to look into impact educational practices on learners, with specific focus gaps bonds while...

This paper investigates whether male soccer tradition can predict the success of female soccer. Different from the existing literature, this paper utilizes panel data covering 175 countries during the 1991-2011 period, capturing country heterogeneity effects and time trends. An instrumental variable approach is further employed in order to identify causal relation. My findings do not support th...

above for Dr. Blacker has given the Englishspeaking community a volume which reflects the greatest credit not only on his industry and zeal, but also on his scholarly attainments. So far as we know there is no book in English that covers the same ground and for that reason alone its translation and publication are justified. In addition to the original matter in the German edition, Dr. Blacker ...

Consider a matrix X, whose N rows have information on the attainments of N inviduals. Each column, therefore, hosts the distribution of each attainment across the population. The number of columns/variables is D. A typical attainment element of the matrix is: xnd (2 R), that is, the attainment of individual n in dimension/variable d. In the identi…cation stage, the variable-speci…c poverty line...

This paper investigates whether male soccer tradition can predict the success of female soccer. Different from the existing literature, this paper utilizes panel data covering 175 countries during the 1991-2011 period, capturing country heterogeneity effects and time trends. An instrumental variable approach is further employed in order to identify causal relation. My findings do not support th...

We report on the fabrication and photovoltaic characteristics of InGaN solar cells by exploiting InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells MQWs with In contents exceeding 0.3, attempting to alleviate to a certain degree the phase separation issue and demonstrate solar cell operation at wavelengths longer than previous attainments 420 nm . The fabricated solar cells based on In0.3Ga0.7N /GaN MQWs exhibit...