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Download full textDearden, Lorraine; Fitzsimons, Emla; Wyness, Gill – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2011
Understanding how policy can affect university education is important for understanding how governments can promote human capital accumulation. This paper exploits historic changes to university funding policies in the UK to estimate the impact of tuition fees and maintenance grants on university participation. Previous work on this, which largely…
Descriptors: Tuition, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Grants
Dearden, Lorraine; Fitzsimons, Emla; Goodman, Alissa; Kaplan, Greg – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2008
This paper undertakes a quantitative analysis of substantial reforms to the system of higher education (HE) finance first announced in 2004 and then revised again in July 2007. The reforms introduced deferred fees for HE, payable by graduates through the tax system in the form of income-contingent repayments on loans subsidised by the government.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Private Sector, Taxes, Graduates
Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Meghir, Costas – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2007
The impact of date of birth on cognitive test scores is well documented across many countries, with the youngest children in each academic year performing more poorly, on average, than the older members of their cohort (see, for example, Bedard and Dhuey (2006) or Puhani and Weber (2005)1). However, relatively little is known about the driving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Age Differences, Age Grade Placement
Dearden, Lorraine; Emmerson, Carl; Frayne, Christine; Meghir, Costas – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2005
This paper examines the impact of a program that subsidizes children to remain in school for up to two years beyond the statutory age. The programme was first piloted in a number of areas in England from September 1999. Evaluating such interventions is of course critical to the shaping of education policy and the effectiveness or otherwise of a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Foreign Countries
Blundell, Richard; Dearden, Lorraine; Sianesi, Barbara – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2004
When looking at the relationship between individual earnings and schooling, there are potential sources of bias which arise due to individual education choices; individuals of higher unobserved ability or with higher unobserved payoffs from schooling may for instance invest more in education. This paper reviews alternative models and estimation…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Income, Outcomes of Education, Models
Dearden, Lorraine; McGranahan, Leslie; Sianesi, Barbara – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2004
In this analysis we seek to shed light on the extent to which credit constraints may affect individuals' choices to stay in full-time education past the age of 16 and to complete higher education (HE) qualifications in the United Kingdom, and on how this has varied between individuals born in 1958 and in 1970. The observed correlation between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Persistence, Educational Attainment, Higher Education
