Mobility and school disruption

Gibbons, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0002-2871-8562 and Telhaj, Shqiponja (2007) Mobility and school disruption. CEEDP (83). Centre for the Economics of Education, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. ISBN 978085328986

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We consider the influence that mobile pupils have on the academic achievements of other pupils in English primary schools. We find that immobile pupils in year-groups (à la US “grades”) that experience high pupil entry rates progress less well academically between ages 8 and 11 than pupils in low-mobility year groups (grades), even within the same school. The disruptive externalities of mobility are statistically significant, but actually very small in terms of their educational impact. An increase in annual entry rates from 0 to 10% (a 4 standard deviation change) would set the average incumbent pupil back by between 1 and 2 weeks, or about 4% of one standard deviation of the gain in pupil achievement between ages 7 and 11.

Item Type:	Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL:	http://cee.lse.ac.uk
Additional Information:	© 2007 The Authors
Divisions:	Geography & Environment Spatial Economics Research Centre Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform L Education > L Education (General)
JEL classification:	H - Public Economics > H4 - Publicly Provided Goods I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination and Creation; Human Capital; Retirement > J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R2 - Household Analysis
Date Deposited:	14 Jul 2008 15:01
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2024 04:52
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/19384

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