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Research

Education and Health

"The Impact of Education on Mortality and Health: Evidence from UK Compulsory Schooling Laws", with Heather Royer, in progress.

International Comparisons of Education

"Reading, Writing, and the Rankings of Rich Nations: Education and the Age Profile of Literacy into Adulthood", with Elizabeth Cascio and Nora Gordon.

Elite/Selective Schools

"The Long-Run Impact of Attending an Elite School", with Emila del Bono, in progress.

"Selective Schools and Academic Achievement". Under review. Web Appendix. A UK policy piece based on this paper was recently mentioned in articles in The Guardian and The Telegraph (here and here).

School Reform

"Politics, Markets and Schools: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Autonomy and Competition from a Truly Revolutionary UK Reform"
Under review. Older version (January 2005).

The Labor Market and Education

"The Impact of Local Labor Markets on Participation in Further Education in England", Under review.Web Appendix.
Older version (June 2002).

Two pieces of work based partly on this paper are:

A UK policy piece: "Staying On"
Centrepiece (Magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics), Vol 7, No. 3, Autumn 2002.

A book chapter: "Post-Compulsory Education and Qualification Attainment" With G. Conlon and F. Galindo-Rueda.
In Machin, S and A Vignoles (eds.) 'What's the Good of Education? The Economics of Education in the United Kingdom', Princeton University Press.

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Teaching

Spring 2008

ECO7424: "Econometric Models and Methods" (first year graduate course).

ECO4934: "Economics of Education" (upper division elective).

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