Anna Vignoles
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 276543 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anna Vignoles |
| NOMBRES | Anna |
| APELLIDO | Vignoles |
| FIRMA | VIGNOLES A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9268-212X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 245 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Does college level the playing field? Socioeconomic gaps in the earnings of similar graduates
The socioeconomic gap in participation at university is an enduring policy issue in South Korea, as in many other countries. However, less attention has been paid to the socioeconomic gap in the outcomes from tertiary education. This paper addresses this gap in the literature, using the Korean Education and Employment Panel (KEEP) data to investigate the extent to which the wages of Korean graduates who attended similar higher education instituti…
The relationship between educational television and mathematics capability in Tanzania
Previous studies have often demonstrated that educational television can have a positive effect on learning outcomes in low‐income countries when delivered in controlled settings. However, existing research in low‐resource contexts has scarcely considered the association between child outcomes and viewing in usual environments (ie, at their home, a friend’s home or a relative’s home). This lack of research is striking, as evidence from controlled…
Understanding higher education access
Globally, access to higher education has increased, but inequalities by socio‐economic background remain. This article explores the relationship between early schooling opportunities (and learning) and progression into higher education in four low and middle‐income countries. We analyse data from the Young Lives longitudinal study, following cohorts of young people from age 5 to 22 in four country settings: Ethiopia, Peru, Vietnam and India. We r…
School Segregation in Public and Semiprivate Primary Schools in Andalusia
School segregation by socio-economic background is a feature of most education systems and impacts negatively on educational outcomes for poor children. Evidence on this issue is lacking for the Spanish primary education system and in particular the extent to which a) poor and rich students sort into different types of school and b) the extent of segregation within different school types. We measure the level of segregation of students from diffe…
The case against education
Reviewed by Ewart Keep, Anna Vignoles and Hugh LauderBryan Caplan is an American academic economist and libertarian. The arguments The Case Against Education seeks to construct can be distilled fro
Revisiting free school meal eligibility as a proxy for pupil socio‐economic deprivation
Whether someone has ever had free school meal ( FSM ) eligibility over a six‐year period is the measure of socio‐economic disadvantage currently used in the English school system. It is used to monitor the socio‐economic gap in achievement in the education system, to identify particular children at risk of low achievement and to direct funding to particular children and schools. In this paper we assess how well this measure predicts pupil attainm…
Private schooling and labour market outcomes
Though a relative small part of the school sector, private schools have an important role in British society, and there are policy concerns about their negative effect on social mobility. Other studies show that individuals who have attended a private school go on to have higher levels of educational achievement, are more likely to secure a high‐status occupation and also have higher wages. In this article we contribute new evidence on the magnit…
The socio‐economic gradient in children's reading skills and the role of genetics
By the time children leave primary school there is a large socio‐economic gap in their reading proficiency. There are a number of potential explanations for this socio‐economic gap and in this paper we investigate the role of three particular genes and gene–environment interactions in determining children's reading skills, using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children ( ALSPAC ) dataset. We find that whilst these genes are indeed corr…
What Parents Want
We investigate parents' preferences for school attributes in a unique data set of survey, administrative, census and spatial data. Using a conditional logit, incorporating characteristics of households, schools and home–school distance, we show that most families have strong preferences for schools' academic performance. Parents also value schools' socio‐economic composition and distance, which may limit the potential of school choice to improve …
Who Gets the Top Jobs? The Role of Family Background and Networks in Recent Graduates' Access to High-status Professions
There is currently debate in policy circles about access to 'the upper echelons of power' (Sir John Major, ex Prime Minister, 2013). This research explores the relationship between family background and early access to top occupations. We find that privately educated graduates are a third more likely to enter into high-status occupations than state educated graduates from similarly affluent families and neighbourhoods, largely due to differences …
Widening participation in higher education
This is an engaging and ambitious book that provides both an historical and a current perspective on widening participation issues. The ambition of the book means that the reader jumps quickly thro
Widening Participation in Higher Education
The paper makes use of newly linked administrative education data from England to understand better the determinants of participation in higher education (HE) among individuals from low socio-economic backgrounds. The data are unique in being able to follow the population of two cohorts of pupils in England—those who might have entered HE between 2004–2005 and 2006–2007—from age 11 to age 20 years. The findings suggest that, although large differ…
Geography, choice and participation in higher education in England
Parental choice of primary school in England
This article focuses on the constraints on parental choice of school caused by geographical location, which arise due to the reliance on geographical proximity as the key oversubscription criterion for allocating school places. We investigate the assumption that most families really can choose between a range of different schools, and ask what types of school are genuinely accessible to different types of pupil. Using an innovative combination of…
Key issues in education policy
by Stephen Ward and Christine Eden, London, Sage, 2009, 192 pp., £19.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781847874665 I really enjoyed reading this volume on education policy as it provides a useful reminder of
Is children's free school meal ‘eligibility’ a good proxy for family income
Family income is an important factor associated with children's educational achievement. However, key areas of UK research (for example, on socially segregated schooling) and policy (for example, the allocation of funding to schools) rely on children's free school meal (FSM) ‘eligibility’ to proxy family income. This article examines the relationship between children's FSM ‘eligibility’ and equivalent net household income in a nationally represen…
Individual Differences in the Pathways into and Beyond Higher Education in the UK
This article uses data from the UK 1970 Birth Cohort (N= 10,000) to address the research questions: (a) Who in this cohort made the transition to higher education (HE), and (b) how are the benefits and risks of such participation distributed? We assess the way that the benefits and risks of participation differ according to family background and child development, finding risks to mental health for individuals who attend HE against the odds. We a…
Mental Health of Parents and Life Satisfaction of Children
What should an index of school segregation measure?
The article aims to make a methodological contribution to the education segregation literature, providing a critique of previous measures of segregation used in the literature, as well as suggesting an alternative approach to measuring segregation. Specifically, the paper examines Gorard, Fitz and Taylor’s finding that social segregation between schools, as measured by free school meals (FSM) entitlement, fell significantly in the years following…
Certifying the workforce
The education policies of governments have become increasingly directed towards economic ends, including the development of workforce skills. UK governments have been particularly committed to such policies and have adopted some quite distinctive tools, relying heavily on targets and emphasizing certificated rather than uncertificated learning. The underlying assumptions of such policies have been subject to sustained critique, but there has been…
The Labour Market Impact of Adult Education and Training
Education boosts individuals' productivity and wages. Yet many individuals leave school with minimal skills and qualifications. One way for these workers to catch up might be lifelong learning. We find that a particular form of lifelong learning, work related training , does have a positive impact on earnings. However, firms tend only to train those workers who will gain from training. Training does benefit those chosen to receive it but if all w…
The Return on Post–Compulsory School Mathematics Study
What are the essential skills learned at school that are required for the labour market? The issue is particularly policy relevant in the UK, where the 16–19 secondary school curriculum (A levels) is undergoing major reform. This paper uses data from the UK to investigate the impact of different academic subjects in secondary school on pupils’ subsequent earning, particularly the impact of studying advanced mathematical curricula. We find that in…
The incidence and effects of overeducation in the U.K. graduate labour market
Suréducation
Francis Green, Steven Mcintosh und Anna Vignoles, « Überbildung » : Zuviel des Guten ? Eine Person ist überbildet, wenn sie fur die von ihr ausgeübten Tätigkeit überqualifiziert ist. Ihre Qualifikation übersteigt also die für den Posten erforderliche Qualifikation. Nach einem Überschlag über das Ausmass des Überbildungsphänomens in Grossbritannien gelangen die Autoren aber nicht zwangsläufig zu dem Urteil, dass dort eine Zeugnisschwemme vorherrsc…
Whither Higher Education?’ an Economic Perspective for the Dearing Committee of Inquiry
Higher Education has a vital role to play in raising the levels of the nation's skills and competitiveness and thus enhancing our capacity to generate wealth and improve our quality of life. The National Committee of Inquiry will make recommendations on how the purposes, shape, structure, size and funding of higher education should develop to meet the needs of the UK over the next twenty years...'. Secretary of State for Education and Employment …
What Parents Want
We investigate parents' preferences for school attributes in a unique data set of survey, administrative, census and spatial data. Using a conditional logit, incorporating characteristics of households, schools and home–school distance, we show that most families have strong preferences for schools' academic performance. Parents also value schools' socio‐economic composition and distance, which may limit the potential of school choice to improve …
Is children's free school meal ‘eligibility’ a good proxy for family income
Family income is an important factor associated with children's educational achievement. However, key areas of UK research (for example, on socially segregated schooling) and policy (for example, the allocation of funding to schools) rely on children's free school meal (FSM) ‘eligibility’ to proxy family income. This article examines the relationship between children's FSM ‘eligibility’ and equivalent net household income in a nationally represen…
Revisiting free school meal eligibility as a proxy for pupil socio‐economic deprivation
Whether someone has ever had free school meal ( FSM ) eligibility over a six‐year period is the measure of socio‐economic disadvantage currently used in the English school system. It is used to monitor the socio‐economic gap in achievement in the education system, to identify particular children at risk of low achievement and to direct funding to particular children and schools. In this paper we assess how well this measure predicts pupil attainm…
Who Gets the Top Jobs? The Role of Family Background and Networks in Recent Graduates' Access to High-status Professions
There is currently debate in policy circles about access to 'the upper echelons of power' (Sir John Major, ex Prime Minister, 2013). This research explores the relationship between family background and early access to top occupations. We find that privately educated graduates are a third more likely to enter into high-status occupations than state educated graduates from similarly affluent families and neighbourhoods, largely due to differences …
Mental Health of Parents and Life Satisfaction of Children
Parental choice of primary school in England
This article focuses on the constraints on parental choice of school caused by geographical location, which arise due to the reliance on geographical proximity as the key oversubscription criterion for allocating school places. We investigate the assumption that most families really can choose between a range of different schools, and ask what types of school are genuinely accessible to different types of pupil. Using an innovative combination of…
The Labour Market Impact of Adult Education and Training
Education boosts individuals' productivity and wages. Yet many individuals leave school with minimal skills and qualifications. One way for these workers to catch up might be lifelong learning. We find that a particular form of lifelong learning, work related training , does have a positive impact on earnings. However, firms tend only to train those workers who will gain from training. Training does benefit those chosen to receive it but if all w…
Private schooling and labour market outcomes
Though a relative small part of the school sector, private schools have an important role in British society, and there are policy concerns about their negative effect on social mobility. Other studies show that individuals who have attended a private school go on to have higher levels of educational achievement, are more likely to secure a high‐status occupation and also have higher wages. In this article we contribute new evidence on the magnit…
Certifying the workforce
The education policies of governments have become increasingly directed towards economic ends, including the development of workforce skills. UK governments have been particularly committed to such policies and have adopted some quite distinctive tools, relying heavily on targets and emphasizing certificated rather than uncertificated learning. The underlying assumptions of such policies have been subject to sustained critique, but there has been…
Understanding higher education access
Globally, access to higher education has increased, but inequalities by socio‐economic background remain. This article explores the relationship between early schooling opportunities (and learning) and progression into higher education in four low and middle‐income countries. We analyse data from the Young Lives longitudinal study, following cohorts of young people from age 5 to 22 in four country settings: Ethiopia, Peru, Vietnam and India. We r…
The socio‐economic gradient in children's reading skills and the role of genetics
By the time children leave primary school there is a large socio‐economic gap in their reading proficiency. There are a number of potential explanations for this socio‐economic gap and in this paper we investigate the role of three particular genes and gene–environment interactions in determining children's reading skills, using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children ( ALSPAC ) dataset. We find that whilst these genes are indeed corr…
Individual Differences in the Pathways into and Beyond Higher Education in the UK
This article uses data from the UK 1970 Birth Cohort (N= 10,000) to address the research questions: (a) Who in this cohort made the transition to higher education (HE), and (b) how are the benefits and risks of such participation distributed? We assess the way that the benefits and risks of participation differ according to family background and child development, finding risks to mental health for individuals who attend HE against the odds. We a…
School Segregation in Public and Semiprivate Primary Schools in Andalusia
School segregation by socio-economic background is a feature of most education systems and impacts negatively on educational outcomes for poor children. Evidence on this issue is lacking for the Spanish primary education system and in particular the extent to which a) poor and rich students sort into different types of school and b) the extent of segregation within different school types. We measure the level of segregation of students from diffe…
The Return on Post–Compulsory School Mathematics Study
What are the essential skills learned at school that are required for the labour market? The issue is particularly policy relevant in the UK, where the 16–19 secondary school curriculum (A levels) is undergoing major reform. This paper uses data from the UK to investigate the impact of different academic subjects in secondary school on pupils’ subsequent earning, particularly the impact of studying advanced mathematical curricula. We find that in…
Whither Higher Education?’ an Economic Perspective for the Dearing Committee of Inquiry
Higher Education has a vital role to play in raising the levels of the nation's skills and competitiveness and thus enhancing our capacity to generate wealth and improve our quality of life. The National Committee of Inquiry will make recommendations on how the purposes, shape, structure, size and funding of higher education should develop to meet the needs of the UK over the next twenty years...'. Secretary of State for Education and Employment …
Suréducation
Francis Green, Steven Mcintosh und Anna Vignoles, « Überbildung » : Zuviel des Guten ? Eine Person ist überbildet, wenn sie fur die von ihr ausgeübten Tätigkeit überqualifiziert ist. Ihre Qualifikation übersteigt also die für den Posten erforderliche Qualifikation. Nach einem Überschlag über das Ausmass des Überbildungsphänomens in Grossbritannien gelangen die Autoren aber nicht zwangsläufig zu dem Urteil, dass dort eine Zeugnisschwemme vorherrsc…
Whither Higher Education?’ an Economic Perspective for the Dearing Committee of Inquiry
Higher Education has a vital role to play in raising the levels of the nation's skills and competitiveness and thus enhancing our capacity to generate wealth and improve our quality of life. The National Committee of Inquiry will make recommendations on how the purposes, shape, structure, size and funding of higher education should develop to meet the needs of the UK over the next twenty years...'. Secretary of State for Education and Employment …
The incidence and effects of overeducation in the U.K. graduate labour market
Suréducation
Francis Green, Steven Mcintosh und Anna Vignoles, « Überbildung » : Zuviel des Guten ? Eine Person ist überbildet, wenn sie fur die von ihr ausgeübten Tätigkeit überqualifiziert ist. Ihre Qualifikation übersteigt also die für den Posten erforderliche Qualifikation. Nach einem Überschlag über das Ausmass des Überbildungsphänomens in Grossbritannien gelangen die Autoren aber nicht zwangsläufig zu dem Urteil, dass dort eine Zeugnisschwemme vorherrsc…
The Return on Post–Compulsory School Mathematics Study
What are the essential skills learned at school that are required for the labour market? The issue is particularly policy relevant in the UK, where the 16–19 secondary school curriculum (A levels) is undergoing major reform. This paper uses data from the UK to investigate the impact of different academic subjects in secondary school on pupils’ subsequent earning, particularly the impact of studying advanced mathematical curricula. We find that in…
The Labour Market Impact of Adult Education and Training
Education boosts individuals' productivity and wages. Yet many individuals leave school with minimal skills and qualifications. One way for these workers to catch up might be lifelong learning. We find that a particular form of lifelong learning, work related training , does have a positive impact on earnings. However, firms tend only to train those workers who will gain from training. Training does benefit those chosen to receive it but if all w…
Certifying the workforce
The education policies of governments have become increasingly directed towards economic ends, including the development of workforce skills. UK governments have been particularly committed to such policies and have adopted some quite distinctive tools, relying heavily on targets and emphasizing certificated rather than uncertificated learning. The underlying assumptions of such policies have been subject to sustained critique, but there has been…
What should an index of school segregation measure?
The article aims to make a methodological contribution to the education segregation literature, providing a critique of previous measures of segregation used in the literature, as well as suggesting an alternative approach to measuring segregation. Specifically, the paper examines Gorard, Fitz and Taylor’s finding that social segregation between schools, as measured by free school meals (FSM) entitlement, fell significantly in the years following…
Individual Differences in the Pathways into and Beyond Higher Education in the UK
This article uses data from the UK 1970 Birth Cohort (N= 10,000) to address the research questions: (a) Who in this cohort made the transition to higher education (HE), and (b) how are the benefits and risks of such participation distributed? We assess the way that the benefits and risks of participation differ according to family background and child development, finding risks to mental health for individuals who attend HE against the odds. We a…
Mental Health of Parents and Life Satisfaction of Children
Key issues in education policy
by Stephen Ward and Christine Eden, London, Sage, 2009, 192 pp., £19.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781847874665 I really enjoyed reading this volume on education policy as it provides a useful reminder of
Is children's free school meal ‘eligibility’ a good proxy for family income
Family income is an important factor associated with children's educational achievement. However, key areas of UK research (for example, on socially segregated schooling) and policy (for example, the allocation of funding to schools) rely on children's free school meal (FSM) ‘eligibility’ to proxy family income. This article examines the relationship between children's FSM ‘eligibility’ and equivalent net household income in a nationally represen…
Parental choice of primary school in England
This article focuses on the constraints on parental choice of school caused by geographical location, which arise due to the reliance on geographical proximity as the key oversubscription criterion for allocating school places. We investigate the assumption that most families really can choose between a range of different schools, and ask what types of school are genuinely accessible to different types of pupil. Using an innovative combination of…
Geography, choice and participation in higher education in England
Widening Participation in Higher Education
The paper makes use of newly linked administrative education data from England to understand better the determinants of participation in higher education (HE) among individuals from low socio-economic backgrounds. The data are unique in being able to follow the population of two cohorts of pupils in England—those who might have entered HE between 2004–2005 and 2006–2007—from age 11 to age 20 years. The findings suggest that, although large differ…
Widening participation in higher education
This is an engaging and ambitious book that provides both an historical and a current perspective on widening participation issues. The ambition of the book means that the reader jumps quickly thro
The socio‐economic gradient in children's reading skills and the role of genetics
By the time children leave primary school there is a large socio‐economic gap in their reading proficiency. There are a number of potential explanations for this socio‐economic gap and in this paper we investigate the role of three particular genes and gene–environment interactions in determining children's reading skills, using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children ( ALSPAC ) dataset. We find that whilst these genes are indeed corr…
What Parents Want
We investigate parents' preferences for school attributes in a unique data set of survey, administrative, census and spatial data. Using a conditional logit, incorporating characteristics of households, schools and home–school distance, we show that most families have strong preferences for schools' academic performance. Parents also value schools' socio‐economic composition and distance, which may limit the potential of school choice to improve …
Who Gets the Top Jobs? The Role of Family Background and Networks in Recent Graduates' Access to High-status Professions
There is currently debate in policy circles about access to 'the upper echelons of power' (Sir John Major, ex Prime Minister, 2013). This research explores the relationship between family background and early access to top occupations. We find that privately educated graduates are a third more likely to enter into high-status occupations than state educated graduates from similarly affluent families and neighbourhoods, largely due to differences …
Revisiting free school meal eligibility as a proxy for pupil socio‐economic deprivation
Whether someone has ever had free school meal ( FSM ) eligibility over a six‐year period is the measure of socio‐economic disadvantage currently used in the English school system. It is used to monitor the socio‐economic gap in achievement in the education system, to identify particular children at risk of low achievement and to direct funding to particular children and schools. In this paper we assess how well this measure predicts pupil attainm…
Private schooling and labour market outcomes
Though a relative small part of the school sector, private schools have an important role in British society, and there are policy concerns about their negative effect on social mobility. Other studies show that individuals who have attended a private school go on to have higher levels of educational achievement, are more likely to secure a high‐status occupation and also have higher wages. In this article we contribute new evidence on the magnit…
The case against education
Reviewed by Ewart Keep, Anna Vignoles and Hugh LauderBryan Caplan is an American academic economist and libertarian. The arguments The Case Against Education seeks to construct can be distilled fro
The relationship between educational television and mathematics capability in Tanzania
Previous studies have often demonstrated that educational television can have a positive effect on learning outcomes in low‐income countries when delivered in controlled settings. However, existing research in low‐resource contexts has scarcely considered the association between child outcomes and viewing in usual environments (ie, at their home, a friend’s home or a relative’s home). This lack of research is striking, as evidence from controlled…
Understanding higher education access
Globally, access to higher education has increased, but inequalities by socio‐economic background remain. This article explores the relationship between early schooling opportunities (and learning) and progression into higher education in four low and middle‐income countries. We analyse data from the Young Lives longitudinal study, following cohorts of young people from age 5 to 22 in four country settings: Ethiopia, Peru, Vietnam and India. We r…
School Segregation in Public and Semiprivate Primary Schools in Andalusia
School segregation by socio-economic background is a feature of most education systems and impacts negatively on educational outcomes for poor children. Evidence on this issue is lacking for the Spanish primary education system and in particular the extent to which a) poor and rich students sort into different types of school and b) the extent of segregation within different school types. We measure the level of segregation of students from diffe…
Does college level the playing field? Socioeconomic gaps in the earnings of similar graduates
The socioeconomic gap in participation at university is an enduring policy issue in South Korea, as in many other countries. However, less attention has been paid to the socioeconomic gap in the outcomes from tertiary education. This paper addresses this gap in the literature, using the Korean Education and Employment Panel (KEEP) data to investigate the extent to which the wages of Korean graduates who attended similar higher education instituti…
Economics (18 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Psychology (14 obras) · Economic growth (13 obras) · School Choice and Performance (13 obras) · Demographic economics (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Demography (10 obras) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (8 obras) · Population (8 obras)