Simon Burgess

Datos Biográficos

ID5521722
NOMBRESimon Burgess
NOMBRESSimon
APELLIDOBurgess
FIRMABURGESS S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Bristol
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS43
TOTAL DE CITAS508
TOTAL COMO AUTOR43
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1988
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2021
ÍNDICE H12

  • Understanding the response to financial and non-financial incentives in education

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Simon Burgess et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2021

  • The impact of the Wolf reforms on education outcomes for lower‐attaining pupils

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Simon Burgess et al.ARTICLEBritish Educational Research…2019Citada por: 2Referencias: 6

    Between 2004 and 2012, there had been a significant rise in so‐called ‘equivalent’ qualifications taken by young people in England in the final years of their compulsory schooling. These were qualifications other than GCSE s that were approved for young people under the age of 16 under Section 96 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000. This rise was checked by the Wolf review of vocational education, which led to wholesale changes in the set of qual…

  • The Long-Term Outcomes of Refugees

    Open AccessJake Anders, Stephen Burge et al.ARTICLEJournal of Refugee Studies2018Referencias: 5

    Refugees are often perceived as an economic ‘burden’, as the current debate on the European refugee crisis illustrates. But there is little quantitative evidence on the medium-term outcomes of refugees in the UK. We fill this gap by looking at the case of ‘East African Asians’ who arrived as refugees in the late 1960s and early 1970s. We discuss from a theoretical and empirical perspective the possible factors that might influence—positively and …

  • Incentives in the Public Sector

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Simon Burgess et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2017Citada por: 5Referencias: 35

    We study the impact of team-based performance pay in a major UK government agency, the public employment service. The scheme covered quantity and quality targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use unique data from the agency’s performance management system and personnel records, linked to local labour market data. We show that on average the scheme had no significant effect but had a substantial positive effect in small teams, fi…

  • What Parents Want

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Simon Burgess et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2015Citada por: 69Referencias: 20

    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 …

  • Test Scores, Subjective Assessment, and Stereotyping of Ethnic Minorities

    Stephen Burge, Simon Burgess et al.ARTICLEJournal of Labor Economics2013

    We assess whether ethnic minority pupils are subject to low teacher expectations. We exploit the English testing system of “quasi-blind” externally marked tests and “nonblind” internal assessment to compare differences in these assessment methods between white and ethnic minority pupils. We find evidence that some ethnic groups are systematically underassessed relative to their white peers, while some are overassessed. We propose a stereotype mod…

  • Newcomb’s problem and its conditional evidence

    Open AccessSimon Burge, Simon BurgessARTICLESynthese2012Referencias: 13

  • The short‐run impact of using lotteries for school admissions

    Open AccessRebecca Allen, Stephen Burge et al.ARTICLETransactions of the Institute of…2012Citada por: 8Referencias: 33

    We analyse the initial impact of a major school admission reform in Brighton and Hove. The new system incorporated a lottery for oversubscribed places and new catchment areas. We examine the post‐reform changes in school composition. We locate the major winners and losers in terms of the quality of school attended. We match similar cities and conduct a difference‐in‐difference analysis of the policy change. The results are complex: we see an incr…

  • Parental choice of primary school in England

    Stephen Burge, Simon Burgess et al.ARTICLEPolicy Studies2011Citada por: 22Referencias: 19

    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…

  • Smarter Task Assignment or Greater Effort

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Simon Burgess et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2010Citada por: 10Referencias: 10

    We use an experiment to study the impact of team-based incentives, exploiting rich data from personnel records and management information systems. Using a triple difference design, we show that the incentive scheme had an impact on team performance, even with quite large teams. We examine whether this effect was due to increased effort from workers or strategic task reallocation. We find that the provision of financial incentives did raise indivi…

  • Competition and Quality

    Open AccessCarol Propper, Stephen Burge et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2008Citada por: 18Referencias: 22

    This article exploits policy change by the UK government to identify the impact of competition on quality. It uses differences in competition over time and space to examine the impact of competition in an environment with limited quality signals in which hospitals competed mainly on price. Using AMI mortality as a measure of hospital quality we find that the relationship between competition and this measure of quality is negative. We also find th…

  • The transition of pupils from primary to secondary school in England

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Simon Burgess et al.ARTICLETransactions of the Institute of…2008Citada por: 7Referencias: 11

    This paper examines the transitions from primary to secondary school for a contemporary cohort of children moving between state schools in England. It uses data on over 12 000 primary schools, over 2000 secondary schools and around 400 000 pupils. The results suggest that the experiences of poor pupils at age 11 may be quite different, on average, to their non‐poor peers’. Poor pupils’ primary peer groups are more fractured at the age of 11 and t…

  • Neighborhoods, Ethnicity and School Choice

    Open AccessRichard Harris, Ron Johnston et al.ARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…2007Citada por: 11Referencias: 24

  • The Impact of School Choice in England

    Stephen Burge, Simon Burgess et al.ARTICLEPolicy Studies2007Citada por: 8Referencias: 26

    The British government has placed the extension of school choice at the centre of its education reform programme for its third term in office. Those promoting choice make an appeal to a simple economic argument. Competitive pressure helps make private firms more efficient and consumer choice acts as a major drive for efficiency. Giving parents the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to schools and, analogously with private markets, it …

  • Cities, matching and the productivity gains of agglomeration

    Open AccessFredrik Andersson, Fredrick Andersson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2007Citada por: 9Referencias: 11

  • The Impact of Neighbourhood on the Income and Mental Health of British Social Renters

    Open AccessCarol Propper, Stephen Burge et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies2007Citada por: 7Referencias: 28

    This paper examines the impact of neighbourhood on the income and mental health of individuals living in social housing in the UK. It exploits a dataset that is representative and longitudinal to match people to their very local neighbourhoods. Using this, the paper examines the effect of living in a neighbourhood in which the population is more disadvantaged on the levels and change, over a 10-year window, of income and mental health. It is foun…

  • Sleep‐walking towards segregation’? The changing ethnic composition of English schools, 1997–2003

    Open AccessRon Johnston, Stephen Burge et al.ARTICLETransactions of the Institute of…2007Citada por: 15Referencias: 30

    There has been considerable public debate recently in England regarding levels of segregation (and changes in those levels) not only by neighbourhood but also in schools. Few data are available to evaluate claims that such segregation has been increasing in the country's schools, however. This paper uses a data set released by the Department for Education and Skills which indicates the ethnic identity for every student in the entry cohorts for al…

  • Region, Local Context, and Voting at the 1997 General Election in England

    Open AccessRon Johnston, Kelvyn Jones et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Political…2007Citada por: 23Referencias: 39

    There has been considerable debate in recent work on voting patterns in Great Britain regarding the importance of regional effects: are these “real” or are they simply statistical artifacts of decision‐making processes at smaller spatial scales which are aggregated up to the regional scale if not incorporated directly into any modeling? Using a multilevel model design, this article reports on analyses of survey data for the 1997 general election …

  • School and Residential Ethnic Segregation

    Ron Johnston, Stephen Burge et al.ARTICLERegional Studies2006Citada por: 34Referencias: 7

    Johnston R., Burgess S., Wilson D. and Harris R. (2006) School and residential ethnic segregation: an analysis of variations across England's Local Education Authorities, Regional Studies 40, 973–990. Schools are central to the goals of a multicultural society, but their ability to act as arenas within which meaningful intercultural interactions take place depends on the degree to which students from various cultural backgrounds meet there. Using…

  • Extending Choice in English Health Care

    Open AccessCarol Propper, Deborah Wilson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Policy2006Citada por: 13

    Extending choice in health care is currently popular among English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice make an appeal to a simple economic argument. Competitive pressure helps make private firms more efficient and consumer choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to health care providers and, analogously with private markets, they will raise their game to att…

  • Unemployment Dynamics in Britain

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Simon Burgess et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2005Citada por: 4Referencias: 33

    We examine the inter-related dynamics of the unemployment flows and stock. Our model allows them to be linked through the standard accounting identity, but also through behavioural relationships. We find that, for the UK, the bulk of the correlation between duration and the unemployment stock arises from the dependence of duration on unemployment, taking careful account of the inter-temporal identity. Outflow shocks have contributed little to the…

  • The Effects of a Mother’s Return to Work Decision on Child Development in the UK

    Open AccessPaul Gregg, Elizabeth Washbrook et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2005Citada por: 19Referencias: 15

    The last 20 years has seen a huge increase in employment among mothers in the first year after giving birth in the UK. We examine whether early maternal employment has an adverse effect on child outcomes. We analyse rich data from a cohort of children born in the UK in the early 1990s and examine the impact of early maternal employment on three outcome variables measuring child cognitive development between four and seven years of age. We also ex…

  • Ethnic segregation in England's schools

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Simon Burgess et al.ARTICLETransactions of the Institute of…2005Citada por: 41Referencias: 25

    We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 in order to contribute to the debate on the degree of ethnic group social integration. We use indices of dissimilarity and isolation to compare the patterns of segregation across nine ethnic groups. We find that levels of ethnic segregation in England's schools are high, with considerable variation both across LEAs and across different minority ethnic groups. By combining the …

  • Spatial Scale and the Neighbourhood Effect

    Open AccessRon Johnston, Carol Propper et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Political…2005Citada por: 32Referencias: 3

    Few studies of the neighbourhood effect in British voting patterns have addressed the important issue of spatial scale: at what level do these effects operate (if any), and do they operate simultaneously at more than one? Using the British Household Panel Study data, to which information on the characteristics of the population in the areas around each individual respondent's home have been added, this article finds significant differences in the…

  • Parallel Lives? Ethnic Segregation in Schools and Neighbourhoods

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Simon Burgess et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies2005Citada por: 96Referencias: 8

    The paper provides evidence on the extent of ethnic segregation experienced by children across secondary schools and neighbourhoods (wards). Using 2001 Schools Census and Population Census data, indices of dissimilarity and isolation are employed to compare patterns of segregation across nine ethnic groups, and across Local Education Authorities in England. Looking at both schools and neighbourhoods, high levels of segregation are found for the d…