This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on
the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps …

This paper studies the origins of what has become one of the most radical and
encompassing programmes of school reform seen in the recent past in advanced countries …

To what extent does crime follow the pattern of potential gains to illegal activity? This article
presents evidence on how criminals respond to this key incentive by reporting crime–price …

In the past few decades, several countries have introduced reforms aimed at increasing
school autonomy. We evaluate the effect of the introduction of autonomous academies in …

This paper aims to examine the changes in school composition in England from 2011 to
2017 by school type and school phase; the speed of academisation by region; and the …

This entry considers the interplay of education and inequality along two related dimensions.
First, the extent to which education is unequally distributed through the population is …

We study how demand responds to the rebranding of existing state schools as autonomous
'academies' in the context of a radical and large-scale reform to the English education …

Data from English primary school teachers in 1995 and 2017 illustrate the sustained value
they place on outdoor learning in a period of curriculum and governance reform. With …

It is unlawful under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) for Australian schools to
discriminate against students based on disability. Yet discrimination against students with …

This article studies whether pupil performance gains in autonomous schools in England can
be attributed to the strategic exclusion of poorly performing pupils. England has had two …