Stephen Burge

Datos Biográficos

ID78026
NOMBREStephen Burge
NOMBRESStephen
APELLIDOBurge
FIRMABURGE S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Bristol
ORCID0000-0001-7206-3674
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS72
TOTAL DE CITAS789
TOTAL COMO AUTOR72
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1988
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H16

  • Thank You to Reviewers

    Open AccessTarik Abou-Chadi, Kavi Abraham et al.ARTICLEGlobal Studies Quarterly2024

  • Beyond the threshold

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Dave ThomsonARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2023

    We study the effects of a major change to the school accountability system in England. In 2015, the leading published school performance metric was switched from a threshold measure (essentially the fraction of students above a test score level) to an average score measure. Using 7 years of data on all secondary schools in England, we show that this intervention relatively reduced the test scores of students near the threshold, in favour of group…

  • Teachers’ use of class time and student achievement

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Shenila Rawal et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2023

  • Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Ellen Greaves et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2022

  • The importance of external assessments

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Daniel Sloth Hauberg et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2022

    We exploit the random allocation to a semi-external assessment in Math (SEAM) at the end of high school in Denmark to test the effect of SEAM on subsequent enrollment and graduation in post-secondary education. We find that SEAM in high school reduces the gender gap in graduation from post-secondary STEM degrees, and we discuss possible mechanisms. Our results show that cancelling external assessments, as was temporarily implemented in many regio…

  • Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores

    Stephen Burge, Shenila Rawal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Labor Economics2021

    This paper reports on a field experiment in 82 high schools trialing a low-cost intervention in schools’ operations: teachers working in the same school observed and scored each other’s teaching. Students in treatment schools scored 0.07 student standard deviations higher on math and English exams. Teachers were further randomly assigned to roles—observer and observee—and students of both types benefited, observers’ students perhaps more so. Doub…

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

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

  • Inter-ethnic relations of teenagers in England's schools

    Stephen Burge, Lucinda PlattARTICLENew Community2021Citada por: 13Referencias: 58

    In the context of ongoing debate about the positive and negative consequences of ethnic diversity for intergroup relations, we study inter-ethnic relations among adolescents in England's schools. In the first national study of schools throughout England to relate inter-ethnic attitudes to both school and area ethnic composition, we combine survey data collected from 14-year-olds in nearly 100 schools with administrative data. We focus on relation…

  • 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…

  • Tariq Jaffer, Rāzī

    Open AccessStephen BurgeARTICLEJournal of Qur'anic Studies2018

  • 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 …

  • Access to grammar schools by socio-economic status

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Simon Burge et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2018Citada por: 5Referencias: 2

    One of the main motivations given for the proposed new expansion of grammar schools in England is to improve social mobility. We assess the role of existing grammar schools in promoting social mobility by examining access to grammar schools, differentiating among the 85% non-poor pupils using the National Pupil Database. We find stark differences in grammar school attendance within selective areas by socio-economic status, even when comparing pup…

  • 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…

  • Tangled spaghetti

    Open AccessRichard Harris, Ron Johnston et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2016Citada por: 2Referencias: 3

    Much is made in the popular press of parents paying a premium to live within the catchment area of a desirable school. This implies most students will attend their nearest establishment: those whose parents can afford it will live close to the highest performing schools; those who cannot will live close to ‘lower-rated’ schools. However, a backdoor system of neighbourhood allocation is contra to policies of school choice. Parents can make applica…

  • 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…

  • Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East Series), Amira El-Zein

    Stephen BurgeARTICLEBritish Journal of Middle Eastern…2012

    Amira El-Zein, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009, xxiii +215 pp. Amira El-Zein's Islam, Arabs and the Intelligent World of the Jinn is one of the only monographs available devoted to a

  • The Meaning of Mecca

    Stephen BurgeARTICLEBritish Journal of Middle Eastern…2012

    M.E. McMillan, London: Saqi Books, 2011, 196 pp. This monograph presents one of the first detailed analyses of the significance of the ajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, in the politics of

  • 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…

  • The dynamics of school attainment of England’s ethnic minorities

    Open AccessDeborah Wilson, Stephen Burge et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Economics2009Citada por: 8Referencias: 2

  • 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