School reforms and pupil performance

Andrew Eyles, Claudia Hupkau and Stephen Machin

LSE Research Online Documents on Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library

Abstract: The relationship between school reforms, specifically those involving the introduction of new school types, and pupil performance is studied. The particular context is the introduction of academy schools in England, but related evidence on Swedish free schools and US charter schools is also presented. The empirical evidence shows a positive causal impact of the conversion of disadvantaged schools to academies on end of school pupil performance and on the subsequent probability of degree completion at university. There is heterogeneity in this impact, such that more disadvantaged pupils and those attending London academies experience bigger performance improvements.

Keywords: academies; school reform; school anatomy; pupil performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-08-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-eff and nep-ure
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (10)

Published in Labour Economics, 1, August, 2016, 41, pp. 9-19. ISSN: 0927-5371

Downloads: (external link)
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/67141/ Open access version. (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: School reforms and pupil performance (2016)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ehl:lserod:67141

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library LSE Library Portugal Street London, WC2A 2HD, U.K.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by LSERO Manager ().