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The impact of school inputs on student performance: an empirical study of private schools in the United Kingdom
- Abstract:
- In this article, we report the results of an empirical study of the impact of school inputs on pupils' performance in private (independent) schools in the United Kingdom. We use a new school-level panel dataset constructed from information provided by the Independent Schools Information Service (ISIS). We show a consistent negative relationship between the pupil-teacher ratio at a school and the average examination results at that school. Our estimates indicate that the relationship persists even when we are estimating added-value models conditional on previous exam results. The results are noteworthy in comparison with studies for the state sector, relatively few of which have found a consistent and significant effect.
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- Publisher:
- University of Oxford
- Series:
- Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series
- Publication date:
- 2003-02-01
- Paper number:
- 146
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1144287
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- 2003
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